PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 71-MAR . 25, 1940 Damage claims. 42 Stat. 63 . Adjusted losses and contingencies. 22 Stat. 29 . 39U.S.C.§49; Supp. V, §49. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages, occuring during the fiscal year 1941, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved June 16, 1921 (5 U. S . C. 392), as amended by the Act approved June 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 1207), $45,000. Adjusted losses and contingencies: To enable the Postmaster General to pay to postmasters, Navy mail clerks, and assistant Navy mail clerks or credit them with the amount ascertained to have been lost or destroyed during the fiscal year 1941, or prior fiscal years, through burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty resulting from no fault or negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved March 17, 1882, as amended, $90,000. OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR Inspectors, salaries. Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions and six hundred inspectors, $2,349,500. Traveling and mis- Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post- office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases; for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office, and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, including necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, and not to exceed $500 for technical and scientific books and other books of reference needed in the operation Pros.c etc in. of the Post Office Inspection Service, $637,000: Provided, That not vesigtions. exceeding $28,000 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establish- ments for chemical and other investigations. Clerks, a ivision Clerks, division headquarters: For compensation of one hundred and ninety-four clerks at division headquarters of post-office inspec- tors, $480,000. Payment of '- Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, highway mail robbers, and persons mailing or causing to be mailed any bomb, infernal machine, or mechanical, chemical, or other device or composition which Death°ooffender. may ignite or explode, $55,000: Provided, That rewards may be paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the classes mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or Ratelimitation. in resisting lawful arrest: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 9273, dated July 25, 1936: Provided tSecuring onnorma further, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the appre- hension of criminals. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Compensation postmasters. to Assistant postmas ters. Compensation to postmasters: For compensation to postmasters, including compensation as postmaster to persons who, pending the designation of an acting postmaster, assume and properly perform the duties of postmaster in the event of a vacancy in the office of post- master of the third or fourth class, and for allowances for rent, light, fuel, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, $49,650,000. Compensation to assistant postmasters: For compensation to assist- ant postmasters at first- and second-class post offices, $7,142,000. 72 [54 STAT.
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