Chapter 271.
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CHAP. 271.— AN ACT Authorizing the Postmaster-General to advertise for the construction of pneumatic tubes in the city of Cincinnati, State of Ohio. March 4, 1911.[[H.R. 29525](/us/bill/36/hr/29525).][[Public, No. 511](/us/bill/36/pl/511).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Postmaster-GeneralPostal service.is hereby authorized to advertise for the construction of double lines of pneumatic tubesPneumatic tube service for Cincinnati, authorized., thirty inches in diameter and not exceeding one mile in length, in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and to enter into contractContract.for the operation of the same for the transmission of the mails, at a rate not exceeding seventeen thousand dollars per mile per annum, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and tnirteen: *Provided,**Proviso.*That no contract shall be entered into until the proposed linesCondition. shall have been operated for mail purposes in a satisfactory manner for six months, without cost to the Government.
Approved, March 4, 1911.