Chapter 50. To further reclassify postmasters and employees of the Postal Service and readjust their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 50.— An Act To further reclassify postmasters and employees of the Postal Service and readjust their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, and for other purposes. July 21, 1921. [[H. R. 6573](/us/bill/67/hr/6573).] [[Public, No. 41](/us/pl/67/41).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Postal service. Pay of fourth-class postmasters modified. Vol. 41, p. 1046, amended. That from and after July 1, 1921, postmasters of the fourth class shall be paid the same compensation as now provided by law, except that they shall receive 145 per centum of the cancellations of the first $75 or less per quarter, 70 per centum of the next $100 or less per quarter, and on the balance 60 per centum.
Sec. 2. Special clerks. Authorized for meritorious services. That as a reward for faithful and meritorious service special clerks may be appointed in the executive, finance, money order, postal savings, registry, mailing, and other divisions of first-class post Designated fifth class employees to become special clerks. Vol. 41, p. 1049.offices. Clerks in the executive, finance, money order, postal savings, registry, and other divisions of first-class post offices who were designated as special clerks, finance clerks, cashiers, foremen, bookkeepers, chief stamp clerks, chief mailing clerks, and stenographers on June 30, 1920, and who were, on and after July 1, 1920. assigned as clerks of grade five shall, from and after the passage of this Act, unless they were demoted for cause, be given the designation and status of special *Proviso*.
Demotion allowed only for cause.clerks, and assigned to the first or second grade: *Provided*, That clerks who have been designated as special clerks shall not be demoted except for cause. Sec. 3. Credit allowed clerks and carriers for substitute service. That clerks and carriers in the intermediate or automatic grades who were appointed to regular positions before June 5, 1920, and are receiving less than the maximum grade of salary, shall receive credit for all time served as substitute on a basis of one year for each three hundred and six days of eight hours served as substitute, and be promoted to the grade to which such clerk or carrier would have progressed had his original appointment as substitute been to grade one.
Sec. 4. Foremen. Minimum pay. That, effective July 1, 1921, the minimum salary of foreman in first-class offices shall be $2,100 per annum. 145 Sec. 5. That, effective July 1, 1921, the minimum salary of assistantAssistant superintendents of mails. Minimum pay. Vol. 41, p. 1048, amended. superintendents of mails in post offices with receipts of $1,000,000, but less than $2,000,000, shall be $2,300 per annum. Sec. 6. That, effective July 1, 1921, the salary of assistant postmastersAssistant postmasters, second class offices.
Minimum pay. Vol, 41, p. 1047, amended. at offices of the second class, where the gross postal receipts are $8,000, but less than $12,000, shall be $1,850 per annum. Sec. 7. That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to payClerks and carriers. Overtime pay June 5 to July 1, 1920. to the clerks and laborers in first and second class post offices and letter carriers in the City Delivery Service the amount due them as overtime in lieu of compensatory time for work performed by them on Sundays intervening between June 5 and July 1, 1920.
Sec. 8. That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorizedRetired civil service employees now in Postal Service. Former service pay to. Vol. 41, p. 614. to pay to persons who have been retired under the Act of Congress entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, and who have since their retirement been employed in the Postal Service, the sums to which they are entitled for services heretofore rendered.
Sec. 9. That the paragraph in the Act of Congress entitled “AnRestriction on promotions of supervisory officials repealed. Vol. 41, p. 1053, repealed. Act to reclassify postmasters and employees of the Postal Service and readjust their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis,” approved June 5, 1920 (page 1053, Statutes at Large, second session, Sixty-sixth Congress), which reads as follows: “On and after July 1, 1921, no supervisory official or employee in the Postal Service shall be promoted more than $300 during any one year, except when appointed postmaster, inspector in charge, or superintendent of the Railway Mail Service,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Sec. 10. That the Postmaster General be, and he hereby is, authorizedPan-American Postal Congress. Delegates authorized to. to appoint two delegates to the Pan-American Postal Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, beginning August 10, 1921, and for the purpose of paying the expenses of such delegates the sum of $5,000 isAppropriation for expenses. hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and to be accounted for on his certificate, which certificate shall be conclusive on the accounting officers of the United States.
Approved, July 21, 1921.