Chapter 99.
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CHAP. 99.— Joint Resolution To provide additional compensation for employees of the Postal Service and making an appropriation therefor. November 7, 1919. [[H. J. Res. 151](/us/bill/66/hjres/151).] [[Pub. Res., No. 19](/us/bill/66/pubres/19).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That because of the unusual Postal Service.Increased pay for 1920 to designated employees.Vol. 40, p. 1198.conditions which now exist, the compensation provided for in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920,” approved February 28, 1919, the following classes of employees shall be increased as follows for such fiscal year only:
Third class postmasters and other specified employees.
(a)Postmasters at offices of the third class; assistant postmasters and clerks, including clerks at division headquarters of post-office inspectors, special clerks, finance clerks, bookkeepers, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and other employees of offices of the first and second class; letter carriers in the City Delivery Service; employees in Government-owned automobile service; supervisory officials, inspectors, railway postal clerks, including substitutes, superintendents, requisition fillers, packers, and laborers; the agent in charge, clerks, and messengers at the United States Stamped Envelope Agency, Dayton, Ohio; and employees of the mail equipment shop who receive compensation at the rate per annum of—
(1)Not less than $1,000 nor more than $1,200, to be increased $200.
(2)More than $1,200 and not more than $1,600, to be increased $150. 351
(3)More than $1,600 and not more than $2,000, to be increased $125.
(4)More than $2,000 and not more than $2,500, to be increased $100. *Provided,* That no third-class postmaster shall receive more than *Proviso.*Limit, third class postmasters.$2,000 per annum.
(b)Carriers in the village delivery service, and other employees Village carriers, and employees at less than $1,000.paid from lump-sum appropriations, receiving compensation at the rate of less than $1,000 per annum, to be increased 20 per centum of their present compensation.
(c)Rural letter carriers on daily routes and rural letter carriers on Rural carriers.two triweekly routes whose routes are—
(1)Eleven miles or less in length, to be increased $75.
(2)Over eleven miles and under twenty miles in length, to be increased $100.
(3)Twenty miles and under twenty-four miles in length, to be increased $150.
(4)Twenty-four miles or over in length, to be increased $200.
(d)Rural letter carriers on triweekly routes of— Triweekly rural carriers.
(1)Eleven miles or less in length, to be increased $37.50.
(2)Over eleven miles and under twenty miles in length, to be increased $50.
(3)Twenty miles and under twenty-four miles in length, to be increased $75.
(4)Twenty-four miles or over in length, to be increased $100.
(e)Postmasters at offices of the fourth class to be increased by an Fourth class postmasters.amount equal to 15 per centum of their present compensation.
(f)Substitute, temporary, and auxiliary clerks at first and second Substitute, temporary, and auxiliary clerks and carriers.class post offices, and substitute, temporary, and auxiliary letter carriers in the City Delivery Service, shall receive after the passage of this Act, for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, in lieu of their present compensation, a compensation of 60 cents per hour for each hour of service performed. Sec. 2. That the above-mentioned increases in compensation shall Increase effective from July 1, 1919.apply to officers and employees in the Postal Service at the time of the passage of this Act, and be effective as of July 1, 1919, or as of such subsequent date when such officers or employees entered the Postal Service: *Provided,* That as to substitute, temporary, and auxiliary *Provisos.*Substitutes, etc., from date of Act.employees, and employees paid from lump-sum appropriations, the increases shall be effective from and after the date of the passage of Limitation.this Act: *And provided further,* That none of the increases provided herein shall be applicable to officers and employees who have received an increase in their compensation of more than $300 per annum during the current fiscal year. Sec. 3. That no post office shall be advanced to the next higher No office advanced to higher class.class as a result of the increases in compensation of postmasters herein provided. Sec. 4. That in order to provide for the increased compensation Appropriation.herein authorized, so much as is necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supplement the amounts appropriated for the various classes of employees herein mentioned, in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations Vol. 40, p. 1200.for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920,” approved February 28, 1919. Received by the President, October 27, 1919. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing joint resolution having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]