Chapter 455. Authorizing the Postmaster General to rent quarters for postal purposes without formal contract in certain cases
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CHAP. 455.— An Act Authorizing the Postmaster General to rent quarters for postal purposes without formal contract in certain cases.June 3, 1926.[[H. R. 3837](/us/bill/69/hr/3837).][[Public, No. 326](/us/pl/69/326).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal service.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733. amended](/us/rs/sec3709/p733).Vol. 28, p. 34. That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act entitled “An Act to amend section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, relating to contracts for supplies in the departments at Washington,” approved January 27, 1894 (Twenty-eighth Statutes, pages 33, 34), and as amended furtherVol. 36, p. 531. by section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, and for other purposes,” approved June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 531), is farther amended by adding the following provision:
"*“Provided*,*Proviso*.Quarters may be rented without written contract, if not over $1,000. That hereafter the Postmaster General in his discretion may rent quarters for postal purposes without entering into a formal written contract in any case where the amount of the rental does not exceed $1,000 per annum.”" Approved, June 3, 1926.