PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 175--APR . 22, 1944 equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase of time recorders, letter balances, scales (exclusive of dor- mant or built-in platform scales in Federal buildings), test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service, including complete equipment and furniture for post offices in leased and render quarters; for the purchase (including exchange), repair, and replacement of arms and miscellaneous items Post-route maps. necessary for the protection of the mails; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural- delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural-delivery service, and for letter boxes; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works not to exceed $1,500; for wrapping twine and tying devices; for expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hard- ware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $75,500 for the pay of viborsavg de- employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia; for rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, accident prevention, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including not to exceed $38,900 for salaries of thirteen travel- sale of maps. ing mechanicians, and for traveling expenses, $3,900,000: Provided, That the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added. Post, p. 89. Equipment shops, Washington, District of Columbia: For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail con- tainers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses per- taining thereto; material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; accident prevention; for the expenses of maintenance and repair of the mail bag equipment shops building and equipment, including fuel, light, power, and miscel- laneous supplies and services; maintenance of grounds; for compen- sation to labor employed in the equipment shops and in the operation, care, maintenance, and protection of the equipment shops building, grounds, and equipment, $2,370,000, of which not to exceed $884,495 nmay be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: men!nctlie eqins Provided, lhat out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufac- ture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. Rent, light, fuel, and water: For rent, light, fuel, and water, for first-, second-, and third-class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices, $10,700,000. Pneumatic-tube service, New York City: For rental of not exceed- ing twenty-eight miles of pneumatic tubes, hire of labor, communica- tion service, electric power, and other expenses for transmission of mail in the city of New York including the Borough of Brooklyn, [58 STAT.
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