Chapter 206. Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 206.— An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes. May 27, 1908.[[[H.R. 18347.]](/us/bill/70/hr/18347)[[[Public, No. 147.]](/us/pl/70/147) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Postal service appropriations.Vol. 5, p. 80. and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: office of the postmaster-general.Postmaster-Gencral.

For advertising, five thousand dollars.Advertising. For rent of suitable buildings for the use of the Post-Office Department,Repair shops and supplies division.Rent of building. including the mail-bag repair shop, lock repair shop, and the division of supplies, thirty-five thousand two hundred dollars. And eight hundred dollars of said sum shall be immediately available. For electric power and light, and the repair of machinery in saidPower, etc. buildings, five thousand five hundred dollars.

For Salaries of Post-Office Inspectors: For salaries of fifteenPost-office inspectors.Salaries. inspectors in charge of divisions, at three thousand dollars each; ten inspectors, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; fifteen inspectors, at two thousand two Iiundredand fifty dollars each; fifteen inspectors, at two thousand dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and thirty inspectors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one hundred and ten inspectors, at one thousand four hundred dollars; and fifty inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, live hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For per diem allowance of inspectors in the field while actuallyPer diem. traveling on official business away from their home, their official domicile, and their headquarters, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not to exceed four dollars per day, three hundred and*Provisos.*Temporary allowances. twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, allow inspectors per diem while temporarily located at any place on business away from their home, or their designated domicile, for a period not exceeding twenty consecutive days at any one place, and make rules and regulations governing the foregoingLimit. provisions relating to per diem: *And provided further*, That no 407 per diem shall be paid to inspectors receiving animal salaries of two thousand dollars or more.

For compensation to clerks and laborers at division headquarters,Clerks, etc., division headquarters. fifteen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; nine, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; twenty-seven, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eight, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; thirteen, at one thousand dollars each; five, at nine hundred dollars each; and two, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, ninety-six thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.

For traveling expenses of inspectors without per diem allowance,Traveling, etc., expenses. inspectors in charge, and the chief post-office inspector, and expenses incurred by inspectors not covered by per diem allowance, thirty-five thousand dollars. For Iiverv hire incurred by inspectors not covered by their per diemLivery hire. allowance, including livery hire in connection with the installation and inspection of rural routes, fifty thousand dollars. For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters, sixMiscellaneous. thousand dollars.

For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction ofRewards, etc. post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated not to*Proviso.*Obtaining information. exceed five thousand dollars may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws, and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals.

For the purchase and installation of mechanical conveyorsand equipmentWashington, D. C.Mechanical mail conveyors. for the handling of mail in the Washington city post-office, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, ten thousand dollars. For expenses incident to the investigation and testing of mechanicalLabor-Saving devices, tests. and labor-saving devices, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, for use in the postal service, ten thousand dollars. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office ofTravel, etc. the Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. office of the first assistant postmaster-general.First Assistant Postmaster-General.

For compensation to postmasters, twenty-six million two hundredPostmasters. and fifty-four thousand dollars. That hereafter the compensation paid to postmasters at Boston,Boston, Mass., and Philadelphia, Pa., increased. Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shall be eight thousand dollars per annum. For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second classAssistant postmasters. post-offices, four, at not exceeding four thousand dollars each; thirty, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each; six, at not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars each; six, at not exceeding two thousand dollars each; twelve, at not exceeding one thousand nine hundred dollars each; twenty-six, at not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sixty-eight, at not exceeding one thousand seven hundred dollars each; one hundred and five, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each: one hundred and thirty-five, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; one hundred and fifteen, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; two hundred and fifty-five, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; three hundred and eighty, at not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; three hundred and sixty, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; three hundred, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; one hundred and ten, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; one hundred, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; and sixty, at not exceeding seven hundred dollars each; in all, two million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso.* 408 That hereafter the compensation paid to assistant postmasters at Boston.Boston, Moss., and Philadelphia, Pa., increased.

Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shall be four thousand dollars per annum. And the appointment and assignment of assistant postmasters here-underAppointments, etc., restricted. shall be so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum. For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second classSuperintendents, clerks, etc. post-offices: Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendentsAt $3,200. of money order, and superintendents of registry, sixteen, at not exceeding three thousand two hundred dollars each;

Auditors, two, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each;At $3,000.At $2,700. Superintendents of delivery and superintendents of mails, nineteen, at not exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars each; Cashiers, Superintendents of delivery, and Superintendents of mails,At $2,600. nineteen, at not exceeding two thousand six hundred dollars each; Superintendents of delivery, Superintendents of mails, and superintendentsAt $2,500. of stations, six, at not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars each;

Assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents ofAt $2,400. mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, bookkeepers, cashiers, finance clerks, private secretaries, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, and superintendents of registry, thirty-four, at not exceeding two thousand four hundred dollars each; Assistant superintendents of mails, bookkeepers, cashiers, chiefAt $2,200. mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, finance clerks, Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, and superintendents of stations, twenty-two. at not exceeding two thousand two hundred dollars each;

Chief stamp clerks, night superintendents, superintendents of carriers,At $2,100. superintendents of delivery, superintendents of inquiry, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, and superintendents of registry, twenty, at not exceeding two thousand one hundred dollars each; Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistantAt $2,000. superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of∙money order, assistant superintendents of registry, bookkeepers, cashiers, examiners of stations, finance clerks, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, Superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, Superintendents of second-class matter, superintendents of inquiry, and superintendents of stations, ninety-five, at not exceeding two thousand dollars each;

Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistantAt $1,800. superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, private secretaries, superintendents of Carriers, Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, Superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and Superintendents of stations, sixty, at not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars each;

Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistantAt $1,700. superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, Superintendente of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and Superinteudents of stations, one 409 hundred and eighteen, at not exceeding one thousand seven hundred dollars each;

Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistantAt $1,600. superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, Superintendents of carriers, Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and five, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each;

Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistantAt $1,500. superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, Superintendentsof carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and twenty-two, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each;

Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistantAt $1,400. superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, special clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, three hundred and sixty-nine, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each;

Assistant cashiers, superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendentsAt $1,300. of money order, assistant superintendents of mails, assistant Superintendentsof registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, special clerks, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, six hundred and six, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each;

Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistantAt $1,200. superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, chief stamp clerks, clerks, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, five thousand six hundred, at nof exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each;

Assistant superintendents of stations, clerks, private secretaries,At $1,100. superintendents of carriers, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, three thousand five hundred and fortyeight, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; Assistant superintendents of stations, clerks, clerks in charge ofAt $1,000. stations, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, and superintendents of second-class matter, five thousand two hundred and twenty-seven, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each:

Clerks, clerks in charge of stations, and private secretaries, sevenAt $900. thousand three hundred and seventy-nine, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each ; 410 Clerks, and clerks in charge of stations, five thousand and fifty-one,At $800. at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; Clerks, and clerks in charge of stations, two thousand four hundredAt $600. and eighty-five, at not exceeding six hundred dollars each; Substitutes for clerks and employees absent without pay;Substitutes.

In all, twenty-eight million seven hundred and twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars. And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall be soRestriction. made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum, and the assignment of the several grades of compensation to the various offices shall be made, so far as practicable, in proportion to the amount of business transacted through such offices and the respective divisions thereof.

Printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers, ten, at one thousand twoPrinters, mechanics, etc. hundred dollars each; four, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three, at one thousand dollars each; and six, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars. Watchmen, messengers, and laborers, six hundred and sixty, atWatchmen, messengers, etc. seven hundred dollars each; three hundred and twenty-five, at six hundred dollars each; and one hundred and twenty-five, at five hundred dollars each; in all, seven hundred and eleven thousand dollars.

Clerks in charge of contract stations, at a rate of compensation aboveContract station clerks. three hundred dollars each, and not to exceed one thousand dollars each, two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Clerks in charge of contract stations, at a rate of compensation not to exceed three hundred dollars each, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For compensation to substitutes for clerks and employees at firstSubstitute for clerks on leave. and second class post-offices on vacation, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at first and second class postoffices,Temporary and auxiliary clerks. and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post-offices, two hundred find forty thousand dollars. For separating mails at third and fourth class post-offices, sevenSeparating mails. hundred and fifty, thousand dollars. For unusual conditions at post-offices, one hundred and twenty-fiveUnusual conditions. thousand dollars. For allowance to third-class post-offices to cover the. cost of clericalClerks, third -class offices. services in offices where the salaries of the postmasters range from one thousand dollars to one thousand five hundred dollars, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, Tluit no allowance*Proviso.*Allotments not exceeding $300. in excess of two hundred dollars shall be made where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand dollars, one thousand one hundred dollars, or one thousand two hundred dollars; nor in excess of three hundred dollars where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand three hundred dollars, one thousand four hundred dollars, or one thousand five hundred dollars.

For allowance to third-class post-offices to cover the cost of clerical services in offices where the salaries of the postmasters range from one thousand six hundred dollars to one thousand nine hundred dollars,*Proviso.*Allotments not exceeding $500. six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no allowance in excess of four hundred dollars shall be made where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand six hundred dollars, or one thousand seven hundred dollars; nor in excess of five hundred dollars where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand eight hundred dollars or one thousand nine hundred dollars.

For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post-offices,Rent, light,and fuel. three million five hundred thousand dollars, of which sum twenty-nine thousand dollars shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That there*Provisos.*Limit. shall not be allowed for the use of any third-class post-office for rent 411 a sum in excess of live hundred dollars, nor more than one hundredTen-year leases. dollars for fuel and Iightin anyone year: *And provided further*, That the Postmaster-General may, in the disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for the use of post-officesof the first, second, and third classes,at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, for a term not exceeding ten years.

To provide for the rent, equipment, and maintenance of Station HStation H, New York Central Terminal.Equipment, etc. of the New York City post-office in the terminal building of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, including expenses incident to moving the station from the present quarters, ninety thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post-offices ofMiscellaneous. the first and second class, two hundred and seventy-five thousand . dollars.

For rental or purchase of canceling machines, including cost ofCanceling muchines. power in rented buildings, motors, repairs to motors, and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation, three hundred thousand dollars. For compensation to eleven assistant superintendents salary andAssistant superintendents. allowance division, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each, and for their per diem allowance when actually traveling on business of the Post-Ofliee Department, at a rate to be fixed by the PostmasterGeneral not to exceed four dollars per day, and for other necessary official expenses, thirty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.

For pay of letter carriers at offices already established, includingCity delivery.Letter carriers. substitutes for carriers absent without pay, city delivery service, twenty-seven million eight hundred and tnirty-five thousand dollars. For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, and ofSubstitutes, etc. auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices already established, one million three hundred thousand dollars. For pay of letter carriers, substitute and auxiliary letter carriers atNew offices. new offices entitled to city delivery service under existing law, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For horse-hire allowance and the rental of vehicles, eight hundredHorse hire, etc. thousand dollars. For car fare and bicycle allowance, four hundred thousand dollars.Car fare and bicycles. For street car collection service, ten thousand nine hundred dollars.Street car collections.Mechanics. For compensation to twenty-two mechanics, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars. For marine postal service, Detroit, Michigan, four thousand fiveDetroit, marine service. hundred dollars.

For incidental expenses of the city delivery service, including freightIncidentals. and drayage on equipment, furniture, and supplies, and erecting, painting, and repairing letter and package boxes and posts, repairing clocks and other equipment, and for maps, forty-five thousand dollars. For car fare for special-delivery messengers in emergency cases,Special delivery.Car fare. twelve thousand dollars. For fees to special-delivery messengers, one million two hundredFees. thousand dollars.

For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office ofTravel. the First Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. Hereafter the provisions of section thirty-four hundred and seventy-sevenPayment of rents to agents.R.S., 3477, p. 689. of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to payments for rent of post-office quarters made by postmasters to duly authorized agents of the lessors.412 office of the second assistant postmaster-general.Second Assistant Postmaster-General.

For inland transportation by star routes, including temporary serviceTransportation.Star routes. to newly established offices, seven million two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended*Provisos.*Discontinuance if served by rural delivery. for continuance of any star-route service the patronage of which shall be served entirely by the extension of rural delivery service, nor shall any of said sum be expended for the establishment of new star-route service for a patronage which is already entirely served by rural delivery service: *Provided*, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster-GeneralAlaska service. is authorized to provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such manner as he may think advisable without advertising therefor.

For inland transportation by steamboat, or other power-boat routes,Steamboat routes. eight hundred thousand dollars. For mail messenger service, one million five hundred and sixty thousandMessenger service. dollars. For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similarPneumatic tubes.Contracts. devices, one million dollars; and the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to enter into contracts not exceeding, in the aggregate, one million three hundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars, under the provisions of the law, for a period not exceeding ten years.

And the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed toReport on owning pneumatic tube equipment by the Government. investigate and report to Congress not later than .January first, nineteen hundred and nine, the feasibility and desirability of the Government purchasing or installing the equipment for pneumatic tube service, and thereafter operating the same in the cities where such service is now in operation, and also ascertain and report the approximate cost of purchase and likewise of installation and the cost of maintenance and operation.

For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, one million sevenWagon sendee.*Proviso.*Chicago service. hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Postniaster-General is hereby authorized to contract, for a term not exceeding four years from July first, nineteen hundred and eight, by either screen-wagon or underground electric car service in the, city of Chicago, Illinois. For mail bags, cord fasteners, label cases, and labor and materialMail bags, etc. necessary for manufacture and repairing equipment, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto, live hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster-General is authorized to use so much of the sum not exceeding four thousand five hundred dollars as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material, and the manufacture of such small quantities of distinctive equipment as may be required by other Executive Departments and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions, and for such special equipment for testing and for other purposes in connection with the reduction in weight of mail pouches and sacks.

For rent, light, fuel, electric power, transportation of machinery,*Proviso.*Equipments for Alaska and island service. installation of plant, and incidental expenses pertaining to the establishment and maintenance of a subworkshop for the repair of mail equipment at Chicago, Illinois, five thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, and machinery, and labor andChicago, Ill.Equipment shop. material necessary for manufacturing’and repairing same, and incidental expenses pertaining thereto, forty-five thousand dollars.

For inland transportation by railroad routes, forty-four millionLocks, keys, etc. dollars. For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes,Railroad routes. newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, three hundred thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General shall require, when in freightableFreight on postal cards, etc. lots and whenever practicable, the withdrawal from the mails of 413 all postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, in the respective weighing divisions of the country, immediately preceding the weighing period in said divisions, and thereafter such postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, shall be transmitted by either freight or express.

For railway post-office car service, four million eight hundred thousandWithdrawals from mails at weighing periods. dollars. Railway Mail Service: For eleven division superintendents, atPost-office car service. three thousand dollars each; eleven assistant division superintendents, at two thousand dollars each; five assistant superintendents, at two thousand dollars each; nineteen assistant superintendents, atone thousand eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and thirty-one chief clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two hundred and seventy-one clerks, class six, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each; one thousand two hundred and seventy-four clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; five hundred and thirty clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; two thousand one hundred clerks, class four, at notexceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; two thousand two hundred and twenty-five clerks, class four, at notexceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; five thousand eight hundred clerks, class three, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; two thousand one. hundred clerks, class two, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; eight hundred and ten clerks, class one, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; eight, hundred clerks, class one, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; in all, eighteen million five hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars: *Provided*,Railway mail service.Division officers, etc.

That the Postmaster-Genenil may, in his discretion, under such regulations as he may provide, allow a clerk who is sick leave of absence with pay, his duties to be performed without expense to the Government during the. period for which he is granted leave, not exceeding thirty days in any fiscal year. That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to*Proviso.*Sick leave. create an additional division of the railway mail service with headquarters at New Orleans, Louisiana, and to assign to duty one division superintendent, in addition to those heretofore appointed, and who shall be paid a salary of three thousand dollars per annum: and one additional assistant division superintendent at two thousand dollars per annum, and to defray the expenses of said headquarters the sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.

That hereafter railway postal clerks on entering the service shallAdditional division at New Orleans, La. receive the salary of the lowest grade, and no clerk shall be advanced more than two grades in any period of one year’s service. And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall beEntrance and advancement of clerks. so madedurιng the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum. For temporary clerk hire in classes one and two for emergencyAppointments limited. service, fifty-five thousand dollars.

For substitutes for clerks on vacation, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*,Emergency service. That the Postmaster-Gcneral may allow railway postal clerks whose duties require them to work six days or more, per week, fifty-two weeks per year, an annual vacation of fifteen days with pay. That hereafter the leave of absence authorized by law to postalSubstitutes.*Proviso.*Annual vacation. employees shall he construed exclusive of Sundays and holidays. For acting clerks, in place of clerks or substitutes injured while onConstruction. duty, and to enable the Postmaster-General to pay the sum of one thousand dollars, which shall be exempt from payment of debts of the 414 deceased, to the legal representatives of any railway postal clerk orActing clerks. substitute railway postal clerk who shall be killed while on duty, or who, being injured while on duty, shall die within one year thereafter as the result of such injury, one hundred thousand dollars.

For actual and necessary expenses of division superintendents,Allowance in case of’death. assistant division superintendents, and chief clerks, railway mail service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, twenty thousand dollars. For rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneous office expenses,Traveling expenses. schedules of mail trains, telephone service, and badges for railway mail clerks, sixty-live thousand dollars.

For per diem allowance of assistant superintendents while actuallyMiscellaneous.*Post*, p. 617. traveling on official business away from their home, their official domicile, and their headquarters, ata rate to be fixed by the PostmasterGeneral. not to exceed four dollars per day, thirty thousand dollars; and for their necessary official expenses not covered by their per diem allowance, not exceeding three thousand dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand dollars. For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, sevenPerdiem, etc., assistant superintendents. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, Thatthe rate of compensation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to companies performing such service, except that the PostmasterGeneral, in cases where the quantity of mail is large and the number of exchange points numerous, may. in his discretion, authorize payment for closed-pouch service at a rate per mile not to exceed one-third above the rate per mile now paid for closed-pouch service; and for mail cars and apartments carrying the mails, not to exceed the rate of one cent per linear foot per car mile of travel: *Provided further*, That the rates for electric-ear service on routes over twenty-five miles in lengthElectric and cable car service.*Provisos.*Compensation. outside of cities shall not exceed the rates paid for service on steam railroads: *Provided, however*, That not to exceed thirty thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended, in the discretionOutside of cities. of the Postmaster-General, where unusual conditions exist or where such service will be more expeditious and efficient and at no greater cost than otherwise.

For transportation of foreign mails, three million five hundred andUnusual conditions, etc. eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars: *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to cover one-half of the cost of transportation, compensation, and expenses of clerks to be employed in assorting and pouching Iiiailsintransit on steamships between the United states and other postal administrations in the International Postal Union, and notForeign mails.*Provisos.*Clerks on steamships. exceeding forty thousand dollars for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in New York Bayto the steamship and railway piers, and for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in San Francisco Bay to the piers: *Provided*, That no part of saidPier transfers, New York and San Francisco. sum shall be used to pay for the carrying in the mails any malt, vinous or spirituous liquors, or intoxicating liquors of any kind, or any cocaine or any derivative thereof.

For assistant superintendent, division of foreign mails, with headquartersPayment for carrying liquors, etc., forbidden. in New York, New York, two thousand five hundred dollars. For balances due foreign countries, one hundred and seventy-nineAssistant superintendent. thousand dollars. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office ofBalances due foreign countries. the Second Assistant Postmaster-GeneraI, one thousand dollars. office of the third assistant postmaster-general.Travel, etc.

For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps,Third Assistant Postmaster-General. and books of stamps, five hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars. 415 For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers,Stamps. one million four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stampedStamped envelopes and wrappers. and official envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency at Dayton, Ohio, including expenses attendent on inspection of manufacture of Otlicial envelopes at Cincinnati, Ohio, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and eleven thousandDistribution and inspection. dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute postalPostal cards. cards, and expenses of agency, six thousand five hundred dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, five hundred dollars.Distribution, etc. For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of first-classShip, etc., letters. domestic registered matter, twenty-five thousand dollars. That hereafter all moneys recovered or collected on account of loss of first-class domestic registered matter which in the course of adjustment are not restored to the original owners, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.

For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of registered articlesIndemnity, lost registered mail.Deposits of money recovered, etc. in the international mails, ten thousand dollars. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office ofInternational registered articles. the Third Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. For the employment of special counsel to be appointed by theTravel, etc. Attorney-General, when requested by the Postmaster-Generai. and at compensation to be fixed by the Attorney-General not exceeding this temporary appropriation, to prosecute and defend, on behalf of the Post-Office Department, all suits now pending or which may hereafter arise affecting the second-class mailing privilege, ten thousand dollars.

Amend section thirty-eight hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States to read as follows: “Any postmaster, having public money belonging to the Government,Special counsel, second-class mail privilege suits. at an office within a city or town where there is no Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of the United States, Ordesignated depositary, may deposit the same temporarily, at his own risk and in his official capacity, in any national or State bank in the State in which Ihe said postmaster resides, or in which his office is located, or within a reasonable radius of his post-office in an adjacent State, but no authority or permission is or shall be given for the payment to or receipt by a postmaster or any other person, of interest, directly or indirectly, on any deposit made as herein described.

” Amend sections thirty-six hundred and forty-six and thirty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United StatesPastal funds.Deposits in national or State banks.R. S. sec. 3847, p. 752, amended.Restriction modified. (as amended by Act of June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six) to read as follows: “Whenever any original check or warrant of the Post-Office DepartmentVol. 34, p. 301. has been lost, stolen or destroyed, the Postmaster-General Inayauthorize the issuance of a duplicate thereof within three years from the date of such original check or warrant, upon the execution by the owner thereof of such bond of indemnity as the PostmasterLost, etc., postal checks or warrants.Issue of duplicates.R.

S. sees. 3646, 3647, pp. 717, 718, amended.*Post*, p. 644. General may prescribe: *Provided*, That when such original check or*Proviso.*Small amounts to officials. warrant does not exceed in amount the sum of fifty dollars, and the payee is, at the date of the application, an officer or employee in the service of the Post-Office Department, whether by contract, designation or appointment, the Postmaster-General may, in lieu of an indemnity bond, authorize the issuance of a duplicate check or warrant upon such an affidavit as he may prescribe, to be made before any postmaster by the payee of an original check or warrant.

The Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster-General shallMoney order statements, etc.Destruction after three years.Vol.29,p.648,amended. cause to be destroyed, in such manner as they may deem best, all money-order statements rendered by postmasters and all paid money orders accompanying the same, as well as all descriptive lists of inter 416 national money orders certified to or by the exchange offices designated for conducting money-order transactions with foreign countries, and all coupons of issued international money orders now filed in the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, or which may hereafter be filed therein, after three years shall have elapsed from the expiration of the period covered by such statements and lists: *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General, upon evidence satisfactory to*Proviso.*Payment of orders after three years.Vol. 28, pp.32, 33. him, and under such special regulations as he shall prescribe, may cause payment to be made in the manner prescribed in sections four and eleven of the Act approved January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of the amount of any domestic money order remaining unpaid after the lapse of three years from the date of its issue.

And it shall hereafter be the duty of the Auditor for the Post-OfficeRecord of unpaid orders. Department to maintain a complete and permanent record of all unpaid money orders issued by postmasters in the United States, or such of its insular possessions as are amenable to the authority of the Postmaster-General for payment within its own territory, such record to serve as a basis for adjudicating claims for payment by warrant of the amounts of said orders. That section thirty-eight hundred and ninety-three of the RevisedMatter excluded from mails.R.

S. sec. 3893, p. 758, amended. Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following: “And the term ‘indecent’ within the intendment of this section shall“Indecent” to Include matter Inciting murder, etc. include matter of a character tending to incite arson, murder, or assassination.” office of the fourth assistant postmaster-general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General.Stationery. For stationery, including all money-order offices, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For official and registry envelopes, two hundred and twenty-fiveOfficial and registry envelopes. thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute registryDistribution of registry envelopes. envelopes, agent, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; and one laborer, at six hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand and sixty dollars. For blanks, blank books, printed and engraved matter, binding andMoney-order blanks, etc. carbon paper for the money-order service, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For blanks, books, and printed matter of Urgentorspecial character,Registry blanks, etc. including the preparation, publication, and free distribution by postmasters to the public of a Painphleteontaininggeneral postal information, intaglio seals, and other miscellaneous items of immediate necessity for the registry system, five thousand dollars. Supplies for the city-delivery service, including letter boxes, letterboxCity-delivery supplies. fasteners, package boxes, posts, furniture, satchels, straps, baskets, time cards, time-card frames, time-recorder supplies, maps, transfer designs, and stencils, ninety thousand dollars.

For steel and rubber postmarking, rating, and money-order stampsPostmarking, etc., stamps. and repairs to same, metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink and pads for canceling and stamping purposes, forty thousand dollars. For letter balances, scales, test weights, repairs to same, and for tapeScales, etc. measures, ten thousand dollars. For wrapping paper, fifteen thousand dollars.Wrapping paper.Twine, etc. For wrapping twine and tying devices, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For facing slips, plain and printed, including the furnishing ofFacing slips, etc. paper for same; and for card slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature, sixty thousand dollars. For the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines,Miscellaneous supplies. envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, and for the purchase 417 of copying presses, numbering machines, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the postal service, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

To defray the cost of printing a new edition of “Street DirectoryStreet Directory of Cities. of the Principal Cities of the United States,” twelve thousand dollars. Supplies for the rural-delivery service, including collection boxes,Rural-delivery supplies. furniture, satchels, badges, straps, map supplies, repairing satchels and furniture, repairing, erecting, and painting collection boxes in the rural-delivery service, seventy-five thousand dollars. To defray expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, includingShipping supplies. hardware, boxing, packing, cartage, freight, and the pay of one carpenter and three laborers for assignment in connection therewith, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

To cover cost of installing shelving, files, and conveyors in theSupply-division equipment. building occupied by the division of supplies in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, three thousand dollars. For pay of letter carriers, substitutes for carriers on annual leave,Rural delivery.Carriers, etc. clerks in charge of substations, and tolls and ferriage, rural-delivery service, thirty-five million five hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not to exceed twelve thousand dollars of the*Provisos.*Substation clerks. amount hereby appropriated may be used for compensation of clerks in charge of substations: *Provided further*, That in the discretion ofPower boats. the Postmaster-General the pay of any carrier on a water route who furnishes his own power boat and is employed during the summer months may be fixed at an amount not exceeding nine hundred dollars in any one calendar year.

For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office ofTravel, etc. the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. That the accounts of Edward Rosewater, deceased, and of N. M.Edward Rosewater and N. M. Brooks.Settlement of accounts. Brooks, late delegates to the Universal PostalCongressat Rome, Italy, be settled, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, within the amounts allotted to each by the Postmaster-General as salary and expenses out of the live thousand dollars appropriated for the salary and expenses of delegates to that congress without the further tiling of vouchers.

That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, andNo payment to permanently incapacitated persons. persons employed in the postal service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons permanently incapacitated for performing such service. the establishment of a civil-pension roll or an honorable-servicePension roll, ctc., prohibited. roll, or the exemption of any of the officers, clerks, and persons in the postal service from the existing laws respecting employment in such service is hereby prohibited.

That the term and authority of the joint commission authorizedJoint comminission on business system continued.Vol. 34, p. 1216. under the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, to investigate the business system of the Post-Office Department and the postal service, and the time for the filing of the report of said commission, are hereby extended until as soon as practicable after the beginning of the second session of the Sixtieth Congress. And saidTo codify postal laws. commission is authorized to codify the postal laws of the United States and to incur any necessary expense in connection with said work.

And the unexpended balance appropriated for the expenses of saidAppropriation for expenses. commission is hereby reappropriated, together with the further sum of ten thousand dollars, to be paid out on the audit and order of the chairman or vice-chairman of the said commission under the method authorized in said Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, said appropriation to be immediately available. That enlisted men of the United States Navy may, upon selectionNaval vessels.Enlisted men to be designated as mail clerks.Duties. by the Secretary of the Navy, be designated by the Post-Otfice Department as “navy mail clerks” and “assistant navy mail clerks,” who shall be authorized to receive and open all pouches and sacks of mail 418 addressed to naval vessels, to make proper delivery of such mail, to receive matter for transmission in the mails, to receipt for registered matter (keeping an accurate record thereof), to keep and have for sale an adequate supp∣v of postage stamps, to make up and dispatch mails, and other postal duties as may be authorized by the Postmaster-General, all in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commanding officer of the vessel or of the, squadron to which the vessel is attached.

Each mail clerk and assistant mail clerk shall take the oath of office prescribed for employees of the postalOath and bond. service and shall give bond to the United States in the sum of one thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties as such clerk, and shall be amenable in all respects to naval discipline, except that, as to their duties as such clerks, the commanding officers of the vessels upon which they are stationed shall require them to be governed by the postal lawsand regulations of the Lnited States.

Whenever necessity arises therefor any assistant mail clerk may be required by the commanding officer of the vessel upon which he is stationed or of the squadron to which said vessel is attached to perform the duties of mail clerk. They shall receive as compensation for such servicesCompensation. from the Navy Department, in addition to that paid them of the grade to which they are assigned, such sum in the ease of mail clerks not to exceed five hundred dollars per annum, and in that of assistant mail clerks not to exceed three hundred dollars per annum, as may be determined and allowed by the Navy Department.

That hereafter the Postmaster-General shall each year prepare andStatement to be submitted with annual report. submit in his annual report to Congress estimates of the revenue and expenditures in the postal service for the fiscal year current, and also for the fiscal year next ensuing at the time said report is submitted, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditures for the preceding completed fiscal year. That if the revenues of the Post-Office Department shall be insufficientAppropriation to meet deficiencies. to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency of tne revenue of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the Post-Office Department for the year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post-Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster-General.

That no part of the appropriations herein made shall be used to payPayment for carrying liquors, etc., prohibited. for the carrying in the mails any malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors, or intoxicating liquors of any kind, or any cocaine or derivative thereof. Approved, May 27, 1908.