53 STAT.] 76TI CONG., 1 ST SESS.-CHS. 128 -131 --MAY 12, 1939
the pneumatic-tube service, would have progressed had his original
appointment as a substitute been made to grade one. Substitute
service shall be computed from the date of original appointment as a
regular classified substitute, and the salaries of the employees shall
be fixed accordingly upon the date of their advancement to a regular
position under section 116 of this title. Any fractional part of a
year's substitute service, rendered after the enactment of this sen-
tence, shall be included with his service as a regular clerk, garage-
man-driver, driver-mechanic, or general mechanic in the motor-
vehicle service, or employee in the pneumatic-tube service, in deter-
mining eligibility for promotion to the next higher grade following
appointment to a regular position."
Approved, May 12, 1939.
[CHAPTER 129]
AN ACT
To provide a differential in pay for night work to pneumatic-tube-system em-
ployees in the Postal Service.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act
entitled "An Act to provide a differential in pay for night work in the
Postal Service", enacted May 24, 1928 (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 39,
sec. 828), is amended by striking out the words "motor-vehicle
service" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "motor-vehicle
and pneumatic-tube services".
Approved, May 12, 1939.
[CHAPTER 130]
AN ACT
May 12, 1939
[H. R . 4785]
[Public, No. 74]
Postal Service.
Differential in pay
for night work, in-
clusion of pneumatic-
tube-system em-
ployees.
45 Stat. 725.
39 U. S. C. §828.
May 12, 1939
To extend the provisions of the forty-hour law to pneumatic-tube-system employees
1[. R . 4786fi
in the Postal Service
[Public. No. 75]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sec-
tion of the Act entitled "An Act to fix the hours of duty of postal
employees, and for other purposes", approved August 14, 1935, as
amended, is further amended by striking out the words "motor-
vehicle service" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "motor-
vehicle and pneumatic-tube services".
Approved, May 12, 1939.
[CHAPTER 131]
JOINT RESOLUTION
Authorizing the President to invite other nations to participate in the Sacra-
mento Golden Empire Centennial commemorating the one-hundredth anni-
versary of the founding of Sacramento by Captain John A. Sutter.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the
United States is authorized to invite by proclamation, or in such
manner as he may deem proper, foreign nations to participate in
the Sacramento Golden Empire Centennial to be held at Sacramento,
California, from May 1, 1939, to September 10, 1939, inclusive, for
the purpose of properly commemorating and observing the one-
hundredth anniversary of the arrival in California, at the confluence
of the American and Sacramento Rivers, of John Augustus Sutter,
a Swiss adventurer, and the founding by him, through the estab-
Postal Service.
Forty-hour law pro-
visions, extension to
pneunmatic-tube-
system employees.
49 Stat. 650.
39 I. .SC., Supp.
IV, § 832.
May 12, 1939
[H. J. Res. 221]
[Pub. Res., No. 151
Sacramento Golden
Empire Centennial.
President requested
to invite participation
by foreign nations.
741
Computation.
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