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SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 206. 1908. 4] 1 a sum in excess of five hundred dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for fuel and light in any one year: And provided further, That T°"‘Y°” ’°““°°· the Postmaster-General may, in the disbursement of this appropriation, apply a prt thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for the use of post-0 ces of the first, second, and third classes, at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, for a term not exceeding ten years. _ To provide for the rent, equipment, and maintenance of Station H o;ihiiiri—l;£gi:.l`Qii°rk of the New York City post-office in the terminal buildin of the New Eq“*¥"“°“°· ""’- York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, including expenses ' incident to moving the station from the present quarters, ninety thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post-offices of Mi°°°u"°°°s' She;] first and second class, two hundred and seventy-five thousand o ars. _ For rental or purchase of canceling machines, including cost of Cm°°u°gm°°hm°s' power in rented buildings, motors, repairs to motors, and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation, three hundred thousand dollars' Assistant superin- For compensation to eleven assistant superintendents salary and wudents. allowance division, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each, and for their per diem allowance when actually travelin on business of the Post-Oilice Department, at a rate to be fixed by 518 Postmaster- General not to exceed four dollars per day, and for other necessary official expenses, thirty-seven thousand four hundred dollars. cu d H For pay of letter carriers at offices already established, including r,ed“°c,¥$H;s_ ‘ substitutes for carriers absent without play, city delivery service, twenty-seven million eight hundred and t irty-Eve thousand dollars. For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, and of S“"’““‘“°“°-°*°· auxiliar and tem rary letter carriers at offices already established, one million three lihndred thousand dollars. N m For ay of letter carriers, substitute and auxiliary letter carriers at °w° °°°' new ofliices entitled to city delivery service under existing law, seventy- tive thousand dollars. H h. For horse-hire allowance and the rental of vehicles, eight hundred °”° "°‘°t°` thousand dollars. Ca In d M _ For car fare and bicycle allowance, four hundred thousand dol- 01.,,] ”° '"' °" lars. For street car collection service, ten thousand nine hundred dollars. u5{;°°° °" °°"°°` For compensation to twenty-two mechanics, at not exceeding nine M°°*‘“"*°’· hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand eiglht hundred dollars. For marine postal service, Detroit, Mic igan, four thousand live ,CB°°’°*‘·'““""°'°"" hundred dollars. _ For incidental expenses of the city delivery service, includi_ng freight '"°‘°°“°“"" and drayage on equipment, furniture, and supplies, and erecting, painting, and repairing letter and package boxes and posts, repairing clocks and other equipment, and for maps, forty-tive thousand dollars. spew, dmmy For car fare for special-delivery messengers in emergency cases, on-sm. ' twelve thousand dollars. _ For fees to special-delivery messengers, one uullion two hundred Fmthousand dollars. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of Tumthe First Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. Hereafter the provisions of section thirtyfour hundred and seventy- Bg*;Q,{_;f*°¤* °‘ '°”'* "’ seven of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to payments for rent of 1=.s.,s~m, p. css. post-office quarters made by postmasters to duly authorized agents of the lessors.