Miscellaneous items. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
Letter carriers. Free-delivery service: For pay of letter carriers in offices already established, and for substitute letter carriers, and for temporary carriers at summer resorts, holiday, election, and emergency service, twenty million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
New offices. For pay of letter carriers in new offices entitled to free-delivery service under existing law, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Horse hire. For horse-hire allowance, seven hundred thousand dollars.
Car fare, etc. For car fare and bicycle allowance, three hundred thousand dollars.
For compensation to twenty-two mechanics, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Detroit, Mich.
Marine postal service.
Proviso.
Contract.
For marine postal service, Detroit, Michigan, four thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster-General shall enter into contract for such marine postal service for a period not exceeding five years at an annual rate not to exceed four thousand five hundred dollars.
Incidental expenses. For all other incidental expenses, including letter boxes, package boxes, posts, furniture, satchels, and straps, three hundred thousand dollars.
Special delivery. For car fare for special-delivery messengers in emergent cases, ten thousand dollars.
Proviso.
Department regulations not affected.
R. S. sec. 161, p. 26.
For fees to special-delivery messengers, nine hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to repeal or in any manner modify section one hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States in its application to the Post-Office Department.
Rural free delivery.
Division superintendents.
Rural free-delivery service: For compensation to six division superintendents of rural free-delivery service at two thousand four hundred dollars each, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars.
Agent for carrier examining board. For compensation to one rural agent, for rural carrier examining board, two thousand dollars.
Rural agents.
Compensation.
For compensation to twenty-five rural agents at one thousand six hundred dollars each; eighteen rural agents at one thousand five hundred dollars each; eighteen rural agents at one thousand four hundred dollars each; twenty-five rural agents at one thousand three hundred dollars each; sixty-five rural agents at one thousand two hundred dollars each, and ten rural agents at one thousand dollars each, two hundred and twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.
Division superintendents and rural agents.
Titles designated.
On and after July first, nineteen hundred and four, special agents in charge of divisions of the rural free-delivery service shall be known and designated as division superintendents of rural free-delivery service; and special agents and route inspectors of such service shall be known and designated as rural agents.
Per diem at $4 a day. For per diem allowance for eighty-six rural agents in the field when actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not to exceed four dollars per day, and for other necessary official expenses, one hundred and three thousand two hundred dollars.
Per diem at $3 a day. For per diem allowance for seventy-five rural agents in the field when actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, at at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General not to exceed three dollars per day, and for other necessary official expenses, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Incidental, etc.. expenses. For incidental and other necessary official expenses of division superintendents and rural agents, livery hire, forty thousand dollars.
Clerks at headquarters.
For compensation to clerks at division headquarters: Twelve clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each: eight clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, and six clerks, at seven hundred dollars each, forty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.
