Chapter 232. Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 232.— An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes. March 1, 1909.[[H. R, 26305](/us/bill/70/hr/26305).][[Public. No. 290.](/us/pl/70/290)] *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. and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteenVol. 5, p. 80. hundred and thirty-six, as follows: office of the postmaster-general.Postmaster-General.

For advertising for the Post-Office Department and postal service,Advertising. five thousand dollars. For rent of suitable buildings for the use of the Post-Office Department,Repair shop and supplies division.Rent of buildings. including the mail-bag repair shop, lock repair shop, amd the division of supplies, thirty-four thousand four hundred dollars. For gas, electric power and light, and the repair of machinery, fivePower, etc. thousand nine 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 hundred and 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 each; and fifty inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, in all, five 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 661 Postmaster-General, not to exceed four dollars per day, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General*Provisos.*Temporary allowances. 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 foregoing provisions relating to per diem: *And provided further*,Limit.

That no per diem shall be paid to inspectors receiving annual salaries of two thousand dollars or more. For compensation to clerks at division headquarters, fifteen, atClerks, etc., division headquarters. 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; and six, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, ninety-six thousand two hundred 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 livery 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 convictionRewards, etc. of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated*Proviso.*Obtaining information. not to 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.

The appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine ofLabor-saving devices.*Ante*, p. 407. ten thousand dollars for expenses incident to the investigation and testing of mechanical and labor-saving devices, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, for the use of the postal service, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, officeTravel, etc. of the Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. office of the first assistant postmaster-general.First Assistant Postmaster-General.

For compensation to postmasters, twenty-seven million dollars.Postmasters. For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and secondAssistant postmasters. class post-offices, four, at not exceeding four thousand dollars each; thirty-one, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each: four, at not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars each; five, at not exceeding two thousand dollars each; eleven, at not exceeding one thousand nine hundred dollars each; thirty, at not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sixty-nine, at not exceeding one thousand seven hundred dollars each; one hundred and seven, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each: one hundred and fifty-seven, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; one hundred and fourteen, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; two hundred and seventy-six, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; four hundred and fifty-three, at not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; two hundred and eighteen, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; one hundred and eighty-one, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; two hundred and eleven, 662 at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; two hundred and sixty- three, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; and one hundred, at not exceeding seven hundred dollars each; in all, two million six hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

And the appointment anil assignment of assistant postmastersAppointments, etc., restricted. hereunder 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 secondSuperintendents, clerks, etc. class 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. Superintendents of delivery and superintendents of mails, nineteen,At $2,700. at not exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars each; Cashiers, superintendents of delivery, and superintendents ofAt $2,600. mails, twenty, 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 superintendentsAt $2,400. of 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-three, 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, superintendentsAt $2,100. of carriers, 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 stat ions, 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, eighty-four, 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, 663 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, one hundred and thirteen, 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 seventeen, at not exceeding one thousand six 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 sixty-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, four hundred and thirteen, 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 superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, special clerks, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secret aries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, six hundred and thirty, 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, six thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, at not 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, seven thousand eight hundred and fifteen, 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, six thousand, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; 664 Clerks, clerks in charge of stations, and private secretaries, fiveAt $900. thousand, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each;

Clerks, and clerks in charge of stations, four thousand, at notAt $800. exceeding eight hundred dollars each; Clerks, and clerks in charge of stations, one thousand six hundredAt $600. and twenty-five, at not exceeding six hundred dollars each; Substitutes for clerks and employees absent without pay;Substitutes. In all, thirty-one million nine hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars. And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall beRestriction. so 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.

For compensation to printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers,Printers, mechanics, etc. ten, at one thousand two 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. For compensation to watchmen, messengers, and laborers, sixWatehmen, messengers. etc. hundred and sixty, at seven hundred dollars each; four hundred and twenty-five, at six hundred dollars each; and one hundred and forty, at five hundred dollars each; in all, seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars.

For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, at a rateContract station clerks. above three hundred dollars each, and not to exceed one thousand dollars each, three hundred thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, at a rate not to exceed three hundred dollars each, five hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For compensation to substitutes for clerks and employees at firstSubstitutes for clerks on leave. and second class post-offices on vacation, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at first and second classTemporary and auxiliary clerks. post-offices and temporary anil auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post-offices, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For separating mails at third and fourth class post-offices, sevenSeparating mails. hundred and twenty-five 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 fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no allowance in*Proviso*,Allotments not exceeding $300. 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, seven hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no allowance in excess*Proviso.*Allotments not exceeding $500. 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. 665 For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post-offices,Rent, light, and fuel. three million nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, of which sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That there shall not be allowed for the use of any*Provisos.*Limit. third-class post-office for rent a sum in excess of five hundred dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for fuel and light in any one year: *And provided further*, That the Postmaster-General may, in theTen-year leases. disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for the use of post-offices of the first, second, and third classes, at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, for a term not exceeding ten years.

For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post-offices ofMiscellaneous. the first anil second class, three hundred thousand dollars. For rental or purchase of canceling machines, including cost ofCanceling machines. power in rented buildings, motors, repairs to motors, and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation, three hundred and ten thousand dollars. For compensation to thirteen 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-Office Department, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General not to exceed four dollars per day, and for other necessary official expenses, forty-four thousand two hundred dollars.

For pay of letter carriers at offices already established, includingCity delivery.Letter carriers. substitutes for carriers absent without pay, city delivery service, and for the pay of letter carriers in second-class post-oflices eligible for promotion to the fifth grade, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. In all, twenty-nine million six hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, and ofSubstitutes. auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices already established, one million three hundred thousand dollars.

For pay of letter carriers, substitute anil auxiliary letter carriers atNew offices. new offices entitled to city delivery service, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For horse-hire allowance and the rental of vehicles, eight hundredHorse hire, etc. and fifty-five thousand dollars. For car fare and bicycle allowance, four hundred and twenty-fiveCar fare and bicycles. thousand dollars. For street-car collection service, ten thousand dollars.Street-car collections.

For compensation to twenty-two mechanics, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars. For marine postal service, Detroit, Michigan, six 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 faro for special-delivery messengers in emergency cases,Special-delivery.Car fare. twelve thousand dollars. For fees to special-delivery messengers, one million three hundredFees. thousand dollars. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, officeTravel, etc. of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. office of the second assistant postmaster-general.Second Assistant Postmaster-General. For inland transportation by star routes, including temporaryTransportation.Star routes. service to newly established offices, seven million sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be*Provisos.* 666 expended for continuance of any star-route sendee the patronage ofDiscontinuance if served by rural delivery. 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 appropriationAlaska emergency service. the Postmaster-General 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-boatsteamboat, etc., routes. routes, seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For mail-messenger sendee, one million six hundred and thirtyMessenger sendee. thousand dollars. For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similarPneumatic tubes, etc. devices, one million dollars. For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, one million sixWagon service. hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For mail bags, metal for mail-bag attachments, cord fasteners,Mail bags. etc. label cases, and labor and material necessary for manufacture and repairing equipment, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That out of*Proviso.*Equipments for Alaska and island possessions. 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 in the mail-bag repair shop 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 the weight of mail equipment.

For rent, light, fuel, electric power, and incidental expenses pertainingEquipment shop, Chicago, III. to the maintenance of a subworkshop for the repair of mail equipment at Chicago, Illinois, three thousand five hundred dollars. For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, machinery and labor andLocks, keys, etc. material necessary for manufacturing and repairing same, and incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also for making in the mail-lock repair shop such metal attachments as may be needed for use in the manufacture and repair of mail equipment, forty-five thousand dollars.

For inland transportation by railroad routes, forty-six millionRailroad routes. five hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars. For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes,Freight on postal cards, etc. newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General shallWithdrawal from mails at weighing periods. require, when in freightable lots and whenever practicable, the withdrawal from the mails of 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 thousandPost-office car service. dollars. Railway Mail Service: For thirteen division superintendents, atRailway Mail Service.Division officers,etc. three thousand dollars each; thirteen assistant division superintendents, at two thousand dollars each; five assistant superintendents, at two thousand dollars each; nineteen assistant superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and thirty-six chief clerics, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two hundred and eighty-six clerks, class six, at not exceeding 667 one thousand six hundred dollars each: one thousand four hundred and eleven clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; five hundred and eighty-three clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; two thousand six hundred and fifty-seven clerks, class four, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; two thousand and fifty-six clerks, class four, at not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; six thousand one hundred and sixty-eight clerks, class three, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; two thousand six hundred clerks, class two, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; six hundred clerks, class one, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; six hundred clerks, class one, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; in all, nineteen million four hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General may hereafter, in his discretion,*Proviso.*Sick leave. 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.

And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shallAppointments limited. be so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum. For temporary clerk hire in classes one and two for emergencyEmergency service. service, fifty-five thousand dollars. For substitutes for clerks on vacation, sixty-five thousand dollars:Substitutes. *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General may hereafter allow railway*Proviso.*Annual vacation. 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.* For acting clerks, in place of clerks or substitutes injured whileActing clerks.Allowance in case of death. on 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 deceased, to the legal representatives of any railway postal clerk or 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, division superintendents,Traveling expenses. 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-three thousand dollars. For rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneous office expenses,Miscellaneous. schedules of mail trains, telephone service, and badges for railway postal clerks, sixty-nine thousand dollars, including rental of offices lor division headquarters, Railway Mail Service, in Washington, District of Columbia.

For per diem allowance of assistant superintendents while actuallyPer diem, etc., assistant superintendents. 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, thirty thousand dollars, and for their necessary official expenses not covered by their per diem allowance, not exceeding three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand six hundred dollars.

For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, sevenElectric and cable car service.*Provisos.*Compensation. hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the rate of compensation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to companies performing such service, except that the Postmaster-General, 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 668 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*Outside of cities. *further*, That the rates for electric-car service on routes over twenty- live miles in length outside of cities shall not exceed the rates paid for service on steam railroads: *Provided, however*, That not to exceedUnusual conditions, etc. thirty thousand dollars of the sum hereby appropriated may be expended, in the discretion 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 hundredForeign mails. and seventy-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the PostmasterGeneral*Proviso.*Clerks on steamships. 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 mails in transit on steamships between the United States and other postal administrations in the International Postal Union, and not exceeding eighty thousand dollars for transferring the foreign mail fromPier transfers, New York and San Francisco. incoming steamships in New York Bay to the steamship and railway piers, and for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in San Francisco Bay to the piers; also for transferring the mail from steamships performing service under contract for transporting United States mail.

For assistant superintendent, division of foreign mails, withAssistant superintendent. headquarters in New York, New York, two thousand five hundred dollars. For balances due foreign countries, three hundred and four thousandBalances due foreign countries. dollars. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, officeTravel, etc. of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. office of the third assistant postmaster-general.Third Assistant Postmaster-General.

For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-deliveryStamps. stamps, and books of stamps, five hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers,Stamped envelopes and wrappers. one million three hundred and forty thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stampedDistribution and inspection. and official envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency at Dayton, Ohio, including expenses attendant on inspection of manufacture of official envelopes at Cincinnati, Ohio, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and seventeenPostal cards. thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute postalDistribution, etc. cards, and expenses of agency, eight thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, five hundred dollars.Ship, etc., letters. For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of first- classIndemnity, lost registered letters. domestic registered matter, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of registered articlesInternational articles. in the international mails, ten thousand dollars. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, officeTravel, etc. of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. The appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineSpecial counsel, second-class mail privilege suits. of ten thousand dollars for the employment of special counsel to prosecute and defend suits affecting the second-class mailing privilege is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. 669 office of the fourth assistant postmaster-general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General.

For stationery, including all money-order offices, one hundredStationery. thousand dollars. For official and registry envelopes, two hundred and twenty-fiveOfficial and registry envelopes. thousand dollars. For pay of agent anil assistants to examine and distribute registryDistribution. 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 anil sixty dollars.

For blanks, blank books, printed anil engraved matter, bindingMoney-oder blanks, etc. and carbon paper for the money-order service, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For blanks, books, and printed matter of urgent or special character,Registry blanks, etc. including the preparation, publication, and free distribution by postmasters to the public of a pamphlet containing general postal information, intaglio seals, and other miscellaneous items of immediate necessity for the registry system, eight 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, seventy-five thousand dollars. For postmarking, rating, and money-order stamps and repairs toPostmarking, etc., stamps. 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 forLetter scales, etc. tape measures, ten thousand dollars. For wrapping paper, fifteen thousand dollars.Wrapping paper. For wrapping twine and tying devices, two hundred thousandTwine, etc. dollars. For facing slips, plain and printed, including the furnishing ofFacing slips, etc. paper for same; anil 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, anil computing machines, and for the purchase or copying presses, numbering machines, anil miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the postal service, one hundred and fifteen 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, sixty 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 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-seven million three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of oue hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That*Provisos.*Substation clerks. not to exceed twelve thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be useil for compensation of clerks in charge of substations: *Provided further*, That in the discretion of the Postmaster-GeneralPower boats. 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. 670 For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, officeTravel, etc. of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.

That section thirty-eight hundred and thirty-four of the RevisedBonds of postmasters. Statutes be amended by striking therefrom the following words:“and where an office is designated as a money-order office, the bondMoney-order condition omitted.R. S., sec. 3834. p. 751, amended. of the postmaster shall contain an additional condition for the faithful performance of all duties and obligations in connection with the money-order business.” 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 orPension roll, etc., prohibited. an honorable-service 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 if the revenues of the Post-Office Department shall be insufficientAppropriations to meet deficiencies. to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency of the 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 ten, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post-Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster-General.

Approved, March 1, 1909.