73d C ONGRESS . SESS . II. CH. 70. MARCH 15, 1934 .
443 SA LARIE S IN BUREAUS AND OFFICES Bureaus and offices . For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus and Allotments specified . offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts , resp ective ly Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $433,629 . Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $376,501 . Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $682,603 . Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $316,019 . Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $73,152 . Off ice of th e chief i nspector, $168,300 . Office of the purchasing agent, $31,860 . Bureau of Accounts, $81,198 . CONTINGENT EXPENSES, POST OijICE DEPARTMENT
D epart ment conti n- gent expenses . For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, Stationery, etc . and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $15,000 . For telegraphing, $6,000 .
Telegraphing . Fo r mis cell aneou s ite ms, i nclu ding purch ase, exch ange, main te- Miscellaneous . na nce, a nd rep air of tools , elec trical suppli es, ty pewrit ers, a dding machi nes, and o ther labo r-sav ing devic es ; ma int enan ce o f mo tor trucks and of two motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used on ly for offic ial pu rposes (one for the Postm aster Genera l and one for the general use of the department)
street-car fares not excee ding $540 ; f loor c overin gs, po stage stamps for c orrespo ndence ab orrespondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 47 of the Lon- Vol . 44, pp . 2243, don convention of the Universal Postal Union
- and other necessary
expenses ; $40,250 ; and of such sum of $40,250 not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for telephone service, not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of refer- ence, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to con- duct th e busi ness o f the depart ment, and not excee ding $ 2,000 may be expended for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at ~g Sttsndanee at meet meeting s or c onvent ions c oncern ed wit h posta l affa irs, w hen in curred on the writte n auth ority of the Postm aster G eneral , and not ex ceed- ing $800 may be expended for expenses of the purchasing agent and of the so licitor a nd attorn eys conne cted with his offi ce while traveling on business of the department . For furniture and filing cabinets and repairs thereto, $7,000 .
Furni ture, etc. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, includ- ing all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $850,000 . App ropria tions herein after made f or the field servic e of t he Pos t p ations en ti top be Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be used for department . expe nded for any of the pur pose s he rein bef ore prov ided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia Provi ded, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and ,P;aeiexpenses, pay- employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when able from service ap- traveling on offic ial busin ess, may continue to be pai d from th e appro- propriations . priations for the service in connection with which the travel is per- formed, and a ppropr iation s for the fi scal ye ar 193 5 of t he cha racter heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor : Pro- vided further, That appropriations hereinafter made, except such as are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be imme- use in examining diately available for expenses in connection with the examination field estimates . of estimates for appropriations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence .
