Chapter 281. To authorize the Postmaster General to cancel a certain screen-wagon contract, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 281.— An Act To authorize the Postmaster General to cancel a certain screen-wagon contract, and for other purposes.March 2, 1927.[[H. R. 15905](/us/bill/69/hr/15905).][[Public, No. 698](/us/pl/69/698).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal Service.Cancellation authorized of contract for screen-wagon service at Memphis, Tenn. That if the Post-master General finds that any formal written contract now in force for transporting the mails in the city of Jackson, in the State of Mississippi, in regulation screen vehicles was entered into before the present unusual expansion of business and increase in cost for such service, and that the contract price agreed to be paid for the service to be rendered thereunder is now inequitable and unjust because of the increased cost and expense occasioned the contractor in handling the unusual volume of mail incident to the expansion of business, the Postmaster General is authorized, in his discretion, with the consent of the contractor and his bondsmen, to cancel such contract.
Approved, March 2, 1927.