Chapter 476. To amend the Act of February 28, 1925, fixing the compensation of fourth-class postmasters
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CHAP. 476.— An Act To amend the Act of February 28, 1925, fixing the compensation of fourth-class postmasters.June 4, 1926.[[H. R. 11084](/us/bill/69/hr/11084).][[Public, No. 337](/us/pl/69/337).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal service.Reclassification of salaries. That the Act of February 28, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1054), fixing the compensation of fourth-class postmasters, is amended to read as follows:
“The compensation of postmasters of the fourth class shall beFourth class post-masters.Compensation fixed on specified receipts, etc.Vol. 43, p. 1054 amended.Additional sources. fixed upon the basis of the whole of the box rents collected at their offices and commissions upon the amount of canceled postage-due stamps and on postage stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, stamps on registry matter, including stamps to cover return receipts, insured and collect-on-delivery matter, canceled, on matter actually mailed at their offices, except the stamps affixed to pay the fees for special delivery service and special handling service, and on that part of the value of the stamps on the mail for transportation by air mail, canceled at their offices, equal to the postage which would be required on such mail at the regular domestic rates, and on the amount of newspaper and periodical postage collected in money, andPostage due, etc. on the postage collected in money on identical pieces of third and fourth class matter mailed under the provisions of the Act of AprilVol. 33, p. 440. 28, 1904, without postage stamps affixed, and onVol. 41, p. 583. postage collected in money on matter of the first class mailed under provisions of the Act of April 24, 1920, without postage stamps affixed, and on amounts received from waste paper, dead newspapers, printed matter, and twine sold, at the following rates, namely:
“ On the first $75 or less per quarter the postmaster shall beAllowance based on quarterly returns. allowed 160 per centum on the amount; on the next $100 or less per quarter, 85 per centum; and on all the balance, 75 per centum, the same to be ascertained and allowed by the General Accounting Office in the settlement of the accounts of such postmasters upon their*Provisos*.Adjustment by General Accounting Office on proportional amounts. sworn quarterly returns: *Provided*, That in adjusting the quarterly compensation of postmasters of the fourth class the General Accounting Office shall allow such compensation as may be shown by the quarterly returns to be due, not exceeding $275 for the 696 quarter ending September 30, not exceeding $550 for the two quarters ending December 31, not exceeding $825 for the three quarters ending March 31, and not exceeding $1,100 for the whole fiscal year, exclusive of 3 cents commission on each money-order issued:
Allowance to outgoing postmaster in case of change in incumbent.*Provided further*, That whenever' during the Advanced to proper class when returns exceed $1,500 a year.fiscal year there occurs or is created a change in the postmastership of an office of the fourth class, by death or otherwise, the outgoing postmaster shall receive in the final settlement of his account all his earned compensation for that part of the fiscal year which he has served, but in no case shall such compensation amount to more than such a sum as is determined by taking such a fractional part of $1,10(1 as the time he has served in that fiscal year is to the whole fiscal year: *Provided further.* That when the total compensation of any postmaster at a post office of the fourth class for the calendar year shall amount to $1,100, exclusive of 3 cents commission on each money-order issued, and the receipts of such post office for the same period shall aggregate as much as $1,500, the office shall be assigned to its proper class on July 1 following and the salary of the Advanced to proper class if receipts increase under unusual conditions.post-master fixed according to the receipts: *And provided further*, That whenever unusual conditions prevail, the Postmaster General, in his discretion, may advance any post office from the fourth class to the appropriate class indicated by the receipts of the preceding Vol. 41, p. 578.quarter, notwithstanding the proviso which requires the compensation of fourth-class postmasters to reach $1,100 for the calendar year, exclusive of commission on each money-order issued, and that the receipts of such post office for the same period shall aggregate as Reduction when receipts decrease.much as $1,500 before such advancement is made: *And provided further*, That when the Postmaster General has exercised the authority herein granted he shall, whenever the receipts are no longer sufficient to justify retaining such post office in the class to which it has been advanced, reduce the grade of such office to the appropriate class indicated by its receipts for the last preceding quarter.
” Approved, June 4, 1926.