Chapter 460. To amend section 4 of the Air Mail Act of February 2, 1925, so as to enable the Postmaster General to make contracts for the transmission of mail by aircraft at fixed rates per pound
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CHAP. 460.— An Act To amend section 4 of the Air Mail Act of February 2, 1925, so as to enable the Postmaster General to make contracts for the transmission of mail by aircraft at fixed rates per pound.June 3, 1926.[[H. R. 11841](/us/bill/69/hr/11841).][[Public, No. 331](/us/pl/69/331).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Air Mail Act, 192.5.Vol. 43, p. 805, amended. That section 4 of the Air Mail Act of February 2, 1925, is amended to read as follows:
"Contracts authorized for carrying air mail and first class mail by aircraft, at pound rates.*Post*, p. 1050.“That the Postmaster General is authorized to contract with any individual, firm, or corporation for the transportation of air mad by aircraft between such points as he may designate, and to further contract for the transportation by aircraft of first-class mail other than air mail at fixed rates per pound, including equipment, under Bates for air mail.such rates, rules, and regulations as he may prescribe, not exceeding $3 per pound for air mail for the first one thousand miles and not to exceed 30 cents per pound additional for each additional one hundred miles or fractional part thereof for routes in excess of one thousand miles in length, and not exceeding 60 cents per pound 693 for first-class mail other than air mail for the first one thousand miles, and not to exceed 6 cents per pound additional for each additional one hundred miles or fractional part thereof for routes in excess of one thousand miles in length.
Existing contracts mayAmendments to existing contracts authorized. be amended by the written consent of the contractor’ and the Post-master General to provide for a fixed rate per pound, including equipment, said rate to be determined by multiplying the rate hereinabove provided by a fraction, the numerator of which is the per centum of revenues derived from air mail to which the contractor was previously entitled under the contract, and the denominator of which is eighty.”" Approved, June 3, 1926.