Chapter 284. Authorizing the Postmaster General to remit or change deductions or fines imposed upon contractors for mail service
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CHAP. 284.— An Act Authorizing the Postmaster General to remit or change deductions or fines imposed upon contractors for mail service.May 11, 1926.[[H. R. 9511](/us/bill/69/hr/9511).][[Public, No. 212](/us/pl/69/212).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal Service.R. S., sec. 3962, p.768, amended. That section 266 of the Act of June 8, 1872, chapter 335 (Seventeenth Statutes, page 315), Revised Statutes 3962, is amended to read as follows:
TheMail contractors.Deductions from pay for failure to perform service may be remitted. Postmaster General may make deductions from the pay of contractors for failure to perform service according to contract and impose fines upon them for other delinquencies, which deductions or fines may be changed or remitted, in his discretion. He mayDeductions if trip not performed. deduct the price of the trip in all cases where the trip is not performed and not exceeding three times the price if the failure be occasioned by the fault of the contractor or carrier.
Approved, May 11, 1926.