62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 46 --JUNE 14, 1948 Special delivery service: For compensation and fees to special delivery messengers, $16,000,000. Rural delivery service: For pay for rural carriers, auxiliary car- riers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, tolls and ferriage, and necessary expenses of the rural delivery service, $135,719,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for extensions and new service. OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Star route service: For inland transportation by star routes, includ- ingtemporary service to newly established offices, $25,501,000. Powerboat service: For inland transportation by steamboat or other powerboat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $2,133,000. Railroad transportation and mail messenger service: For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $165,881,000: Provided,That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service. Railway mail service, salaries: For fifteen general superintendents, fifteen assistant general superintendents, two assistant general super- intendents at large, one hundred and twenty district superintendents, one hundred and twenty assistant district superintendents, and other employees in the railway mail service, $109,188,000. Railway mail service, travel allowance: For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $5,237,000. Railway mail service, travel expenses: For travel expenses of departmental officials and supervisory employees of the railway mail service, and railway postal clerks, $66,000. Railway mail service, miscellaneous expenses: For necessary expenses of the railway mail service not provided for in other appropriations, $490,000. Electric car service: For electric car service, $220,000. Foreign mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mails, except by aircraft, $23,762,800: Provided,That not to exceed $12,500 is hereby made available for expenses of delegates designated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General to the Sixth Con- gress of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain, The Executive and Liaison Commission and the Transit Commission of the Universal Postal Union, and the conference on revision of the 1929 "Prisoners of War" Convention, to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for on his certificate, which certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended, which amount shall be available until December 31, 1949. Balances due foreign countries: For balances due foreign countries, fiscal year 1949 and prior years, $3,000,000: Provided,That there shall be established immediately, by transfer of $5,000,000 from the appro- priation for "Balances due foreign countries" for the fiscal year 1948, a revolving fund which shall be available without fiscal year limitation for advances to air carriers for the transportation of air mail from foreign countries to the United States as authorized by section 2 of the Act of July 27, 1940 (49 U. S . C. 485b), and payments hereafter received from foreign countries on account of air carriers for the transportation of air mail from foreign countries to the United States shall be credited to such fund. Indemnities, international mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with con- vention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, fiscal year 1949 and prior years, $17,500. 419 Post, p. 564. Attendance at oer- tain conferences. Post, p. 564. Transfer of funds. 61 Stat. 231 . 54 Stat. 863 . Post, p. 564
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