PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 179-JUNE 30, 1943 Examination of esti- mates. priations for the service in connection with which the travel is per- formed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1944 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor: Pro- vided further, That appropriations hereinafter made, except such as are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be immediately available for expenses in connection with the examination of esti- mates for appropriations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. FIELD SERVICE, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Travel expenses, Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $3,000. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1944, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved June 16, 1921 (5 U. S. C . 392), as amended by the Act approved June 42 Stat. 2, 1934 (48 Stat. 1207), $70,000. 31V. s . 2. Adjusted losses and contingencies: To enable the Postmaster Gen- eral to pay to postmasters, Navy mail clerks, and assistant Navy mail clerks or credit them with the amount ascertained to have been lost or destroyed during the fiscal year 1944, or prior fiscal years, through burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty resulting from no fault ?ztat. 29. or negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved 39U.S. . 4 March 17, 1882, as amended. $55,000. OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR Chemical, etc., in- vestigations. Rewards. Death of offender. Limitation. Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions and seven hundred and eighty-five inspectors. $2.902,160. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post- otlice inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases; for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office, and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their offcial investigations, including necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, and not to exceed $500 for technical and scien- tific books and other books of reference needed in the operation of the Post Office Inspection Service, $1,030,700: Provided, That not exceeding $12,000 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establish- ments for chemical and other investigations. Clerks, division headquarters: For compensation of three hundred and forty clerks at division headquarters and other posts of duty of post-office inspectors, $822,600. Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, highway mail robbers, and persons mailing or causing to be mailed any bomb, infernal machine, or mechanical, chemical, or other device or composi- tion which may ignite, or explode, $55,000: Provided, That rewards may be paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the classes mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess 264 [57 STAT.
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