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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS. -CH. 273-JULY 3, 1941 Post Office Department-Postal Service (out of the Postal Revenues): For contract air mail, $3,792.36. For city delivery carriers, $37.50. For clerks, first- and second-class post offices, $158.70. For compensation to postmasters, $109.71. For indemnities, domestic mail, $60.12. For miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices, $16. For operating force for public buildings, Post Office Department, $5. For operating supplies for public buildings, Post Office Depart- ment, $87.38 . For payment of rewards, $25. For post-office stationery, equipment, and supplies, $7.50. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $414.01. For railroad transportation and mail messenger service, $32.19. For rent, light, and fuel, $927.01. For rent, light, fuel, and water, $147. For Rural Delivery Service, $325.14 . For transportation of equipment and supplies, $4.82. For Vehicle Service, $55.90 . For Village Delivery Service, $4.50. Total, audited claims, section 204 (a), $257,527.56, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency and interest as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. (b) For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund where the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S. C. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1938 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (5 U. S. C . 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 78, Seventy-seventh Congress, there is appropriated as follows: Independent Offices: For operations under Mineral Act of October 5, 1918, $4,058.94. For wage records, Social Security Board, 11 cents. For salaries and expenses, Social Security Board, $2.71. For salaries and expenses Veterans' Administration, $10.70. Department of Agriculture: For conservation and use of agri- cultural land resources, Department of Agriculture, $499.78. For retirement of cotton pool participation trust certificates, Department of Agriculture, 1938-December 31, 1939, $41.62. For exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural com- modities, Department of Agriculture (transfer to Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, Act June 28, 1937), $74.42. For salaries and expenses, Soil Conservation Service, 53 cents. For salaries and expenses, Forest Service, $5.59. For elimination of diseased cattle, Department of Agriculture. $600. For exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural com- modities, Department of Agriculture, $4.58. For acquisition of lands for protection of watersheds of navigable streams, $352.02. Department of the Interior: For National Park Service, $3.92. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $16.96. For Indian school support, $44.01. For general expenses, Indian Service, $94.55 . For conservation of health among Indians, $76.89. 573 Total. Additional claims. 18 Stat. 110. 23 Stat. 254 . 40 Stat. 1009. 50 Stat. 323 15U.S. C. 713c.