54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS. -CH. 437-JUNE 27, 1940 POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For an additional lerks, ir amount for compensation to clerks and employees at first- and sec- omffes. ond-class post offices, and so forth, including the same objects speci- fied under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1940, fiscal year 1940, $6,000,000 and, m addition, the sum of stat. 677. $500,000 which is hereby transferred to this appropriation from the 53 tat. 678. appropriation "Star Route Service, 1940". City delivery carriers: For an additional amount for pay of City deliver letter carriers, City Delivery Service, fiscal year 1940, $5,500,000. 6 stat. 677 . Domestic air-mail service: For an additional amount for the Domestic inland transportation of mail by aircraft, and so forth, including the same objects and subject to the same conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, Ant,p.73. $625,000. Foreign air-mail transportation: For an additional amount for ForeignIrat transportation of foreign mails by aircraft, as authorized by law, Ante,p.73. fiscal year 1941, $173,000. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to incur obligations twAee-ml for the transportation of mail by aircraft during the fiscal year 1941 and Juneau, A between Seattle, Washington, and Juneau, Alaska, via Ketchikan, Alaska, and the appropriation "Foreign air-mail transportation, 1941", is hereby made available for payment of such obligations. Ante.p .3 . OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTE GENERAL Railroad transportation and mail-messenger service: For inland transportation by railroad routes, and so forth, including the same objects and subject to the same conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1940, $7,000,000. MISCELLANEOUS The Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to transfer from such appropriations contained in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1940, having unobligated balances, such amounts as the Postmaster General shall recommend to certain other appropriations in amounts not to exceed in the aggre- gate the amounts specified as follows: To "Salaries, Office of First Assistant Postmaster General, 1940", $13,000; to "Payment of Rewards, 1939" $6,800; to "Special-Delivery Fees, 1939", $22,000; to "Special-Delivery Fees, 1940", $675,000; to "Contract Air Mail Service, 193", $175,000; to "Contract Air Mail Service, 1937", $81,000; to "Contract Air Mail Service, 1938", $84,000; to "Domestic Air Mail Service, 1940", $525,000; to "Foreign Air Mail Transportation, 1940", $130,000; to "Power-Boat Service, 1940", $50,000; to "Railway Mail Service, Salaries, 1940", $600,000; to "Railway Postal Clerks, Travel- ing Allowances, 1940", $100,000; and to "Manufacture and Distribu- tion of Stamps and Stamped Paper, 1940", $250,000: Provided, That the limitations contained in the appropriation "Domestic Air Mail Service, 1940", on the amounts that may be expended for supervisory officials and clerks at air-mail transfer points, and for personal serv- ices in the District of Columbia, are hereby increased to $39,500 and $54,500, respectively: Providedfurther, That $7,500 of the appropria- tion "Foreign Mail Transportation, 1941" is hereby made available, and shall remain available until June 30, 1942, for expenses of dele- Railroad transporta- tion, etc., service. 53 Stat.678. Transfer of funds. 53 Stat. 875. Provisos. Domestic Air Mail Service. Expenses of dele- gates to designated Congress. Ant, p. 74. 649
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