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50 Po st Office De part - ment . Additional, to meet increases in rates of exchange. Payment of pri vate claim s . Vol. 44, pp . 1505,1832 . Civilian officers. Travel allowance when transferred from one official station to another. Proviso. Restriction. Title of Act . SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS . I. Ca. . 1927 . For headstones for graves of soldiers, $21 .58. For nat ional cemete ries, $45 . 30 . For artificial limbs, $175 . For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Bran ch, $15 . For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwest- ern Branch, $3 .97 : For increase of compensation, National Home for Disabled Volun- teer Soldiers, $2.38 . POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT-POSTAL SERVICE (Out of the postal revenues) For airplane service between New York and San Francisco, $31 .60 . For balances due foreign countries, $22,389 .41 . For city-delivery carriers, $1,651 .49 . For clerks, contract stations, $1 . For clerks, first and second class post offices, $975 .04 . For clerks, third-class post offices, $1 .66. For compensation to postmasters, $843 .76 . Fo r inde mnitie s, dom estic mail, $6,687 .53 . For indemnities, international registered mail, $1,439 .92 . For indemnities, international mail, $796 .37. For mail-messenger service, $40 .23 . For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $67 .57 . For personal or property damage claims, $651 .50 . For post-office equipment and supplies, $22 .40. For power -boat servic e, $2, 000 . For railr oad tr anspor tation , $945 .8 8 . For railr oad tr anspor tation and m ail-me ssenger servi ce, $7 43 .9 0 . For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $40 .50. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $3 .23 . For railway postal clerks travel allowances, $14 . For rent, li ght, and fuel, $77 7 .25 . For Rural Delivery Service, $465 .85 . For separating mails, $453 .24. For shipment of supplies, $37 .07. For special-delivery fees, $2 .08. For star-route service, $74 .39. For vehicle service, $252.58. Total, audited claims, section 4, $1,094,609 .95, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office . SEC . 5 . For the payment of claims certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under the provisions of the Acts approved June 11, 1926, and March 3, 1927, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 77 of the Seventieth Congress, $3,955 .42 . SEC . 6 . Appropriations for the fiscal years 1926, 1927, 1928, and 1929 avai lable for expenses of trave l of civi lian offi cers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the depart- ment or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer Provided, That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee . SEC . 7. This Act hereafter may be referred to as the "First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928 ." Approved, December 22, 1927 .