1068 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 162. 1917. l€°°h=¤¤* *•b°*· For the purchase, rental, repair, exchange, and maintenance of smug dm°°s' mechanical mail-handling apparatus and other labor-saving devices, $75,000. _ _ _ mg? d°u"y °°°1p` For equi ment for City Delivery Service, mcluding letter boxes, letter-box fiisteners, package boxes, posts furniture, and the erecting and painting of same also trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, time cards, and tune-card frames, and the repairingfof such eqn?-pment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and res and man acture _ of letter boxes, $350,000. _ _ M“°b°°’l°°]°’ °t°' For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers, and attachments, mail locks, keys, c ams, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and or mcidental exm§§r`?£m°° me penses rtaining thereto; also material, machinery, and tools necessary gi the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops at ,, . Washingtéon, District of Columbia, of such_other equipment for the nssueave equip- Postal rvice as may be deemed exped1ent, $367,000: Prmnkicd, "‘“‘° '°' 2§d"'°T;.;‘,‘Q}§; That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized P%%¤¤-*- to use as much of e sum, not exceeding $5,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture m the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive epuipments as may be required by other executive departments; and or service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island ummm possessions. amLri:“’ °q t For compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops at sm Nm umnm Washington, District of Columbia, $155,000. ¤•¤¤¤· For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in I Alaska), inclu 1pprary service to newly established offices, nrseeimnuea is $8,675,000: P , at no part of this appropriation shall be ,’;,¥§,jf by ““‘ ‘*°‘ expended for continuance of any star-route service the patronage of which shall be served entirely b the extension of rural delivery ,,,f'°' “’““' ""“"°°' service, nor shall any of said sum he expended for the establishment of netwivlpzstar-routiaelpervice for a patronage which is already entirely serve y rural very_serv1ce. e.¥.`:”:al_d”u°"’ °°" For 5:;* of rural earners, substitutes for rural carriers on annual leave, ks rn charge of stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural mm Delivery Service, an for the mcidental expenses thereof, $53,000,000Z Lake wmspqe. Provuled, That the maximum yearly salary of $1,800 shall hereafter ‘°;;·¤m dm paid to the rural earner on Lake Winnipesaukee, who furnishes hrs own eqmpment: Prpmded, That not to exceed $20,000 of the ainmoknmt hireby appropruztegl may be used for the compensation of c in c arge o s a ions. V"'°‘°"°“"’· For village delivery service in towns and villages having post Tm,. M offices of the second or third class, $500,000.
- ‘ For travel and miscellaneous expenses m the Postal Service, office
A mmm mm of the Eourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,009,
to um _ That if the revenues of the_P0st Office Department shall be insuiiicrent to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to
such deficiency e revenue of said detgartment is hereby appropr1ated,_to be paid out of any money in e Treasury not otherwise pJppro8gated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the ost ce Department for the year end? June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and the sum need may be advanced to the Tmwumu M Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. ¤=§ci;=;mgW“;mm_ Sec. 2. Contracts made 111 the _P0st Office Department for the
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- “*°"*°°· master General, be srgncd in the place and stead of the Postmaster
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