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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · June 29, 1886 · Chapter 569

Chapter 569.

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CHAP. 569.— An act to make the allowances for clerk-hire, to postmasters of the first and second class post-offices cover the cost of clerical labor in the money-order business, and for other purposes.June 29, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Clerk-hire allowances, first and second class post-offices, to cover all clerical labor. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, the allowances for clerk hire made to postmasters of first and second class post-offices, by the Postmaster-General, out of the annual appropriation for clerks in post-offices, shall cover the cost of clerical service of all kinds in such post-offices, including the cost of clerical labor in the money-order business; and that all laws or parts of laws inconsistent or in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundredAllowances for money-order clerks not to be separately made. Vol. 22, p. 528. and eighty-six, the allowances for clerk-hire in money-order business shall not be separately made, but shall be included in the general allowances for clerk-hire, and shall be based upon, but not to exceed, the rates specified in the fourth section of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; and at all money-order exchange-offices which are now or may hereafter be established, additional allowances for clerk-hire may be made as provided in said section for international exchange-offices; and postmasters at offices of the first and second classes shall not receive any compensation in addition to their salaries for the transaction of the money-order and postal-note business.
Approved, June 29, 1886.
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