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72d CONGRESS . SESS. I. CH. 430 . JULY 5,1932. FIELD SERvICE, POST Or'r'icn DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF rats POSTMASTER GENE RAL Field service. Postmaster General . 599 For gas, electric power, and light, and the repair of machinery, b d pmant shops United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $5,500. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to

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inventions for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an im- improving the service . provement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Post al Servi ce submi tted by one or m ore emplo yees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficient , and for that purpose the sum of $1,500 is hereby appropriate : Pro vid ed, That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with Provisos . this Act, shall be in addition t o their usual co mpensation : Provided p yda ition al to reg ular further, That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act A mounts limit ed . shall not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or suggestion : Provided further, That no employee shall be paid a ernmenment for Gov. reward under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement, to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, sug- gestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by A ppropr iatio n him his heirs, or assigns : Provided further, That this appropriation r estr icted shah be available for no other purpose . For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and menipetent of equip- sup pl ies for the P ost Office Department and Postal Ser vi ce by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental ex- penses, $425,000 . For tr avel and miscell aneous expenses in the Postal Se rvice, office Travel, etc • of the Postmaster General, $1,000 . To enable t he Postm aster Ge neral to pay cla ims for damages, oc- Damage claims . curring during the fiscal year 1933 or in prior fiscal years, to persons u . s.' c.psao. or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 392), $18,000 . OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR : For salaries o f fifteen inspec tors in Inspectors, charge of divisions, at $4,500 each ; and five hundred and twenty- five inspectors, $1,981,950 ; i n a ll, $2 ,0 49, 450 . Fo r travel ing expe nses of inspecto rs, insp ectors i n charge , the in T~;g~

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chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing steno - graphic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, and for tests, exhibits documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investiga- tions, $510,000 : Provided, Th at not exceeding $26,440 of this sum Allotment nt for chemi- shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other cal investigations. depart ments an d indepe ndent es tablishm ents for chemica l and ot her investigations . For necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, Miscellaneous . $14 ,000 .

Clerks at division For compensation of one hundred and thirty clerks at division headquarters. headquarters, $328,000.

Rewards for detect, For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction ing law violations . of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $45,000 : Provided, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the Post- Provisos . DDe at ho loffen der . master General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committi ng the c rime or in resis ting law ful arre st