58 STAT.] 78TH GONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 299, 300 -JUNE 28,1944 "SEC. 8 . The Postmaster General may authorize postmasters at such offices as he shall designate, under such regulations as he shall prescribe to issue and pay money orders not exceeding $10, to be known as postal notes at 5 cents each: Provided,however, That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized, in order to promote the service to the public, to increase or decrease the fees fixed by Congress for postal notes to an amount not less than 3 cents or more than 6 cents, whenever he shall find that such fees are too low to insure the receipt of revenues adequate to pay the cost of the postal-note system or materially higher than necessary to pay the cost thereof: And provided further, That he shall be required to report to the Congress revision of any fee at least sixty days prior to its effective date. "Postal notes shall be valid for two calendar months from the date of their issue, but thereafter may be paid by the Postmaster General or refund may be made in case of loss, upon evidence satisfactory to him, under such regulations as he may prescribe. Postal notes shall not to be negotiable or transferable through endorsement." Approved June 28, 1944. [CHAPTER 300] AN ACT Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there are appropriated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia, hereinafter known as the general fund, such fund being composed of the revenues of the District of Columbia other than those applied by law to special funds, and $6,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- . priated (to be advanced July 1, 1944), (2) the highway fund, estab- lished by law (D. C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), and (3) the water fund, established by law (D. C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), sums as follows: From the general fund: All sums appropriated under the following heads: General administration, fiscal service, compensation and retire- ment fund expenses, District debt service, public works investment fund, regulatory agencies, public schools, public library, Recreation Department, Metropolitan Police, Fire Department, policemen's and firemen's relief, Department of Civilian Defense, courts, Health Department, public welfare public works (excluding those items des- ignated as payable from the highway and water funds), National Guard, National Capital Parks, National Capital Park and Planning Commission and National Zoological Park; From the highway fund: All sums appropriated under public works designated as payable from the highway fund; and From the water fund: All sums appropriated under public works and Washington Aqueduct designated as payable from the water fund; namely: GENERAL ADMINISTRATION For all expenses necessary for the offices named under this general head, including, in addition to the objects specified respectively under each head, personal services; lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; and printing and binding: June 28,1944 (H. R . 4881] (Public Law 371] District of Colnm- bia Appropriation Act, 1945. Pot, pp. 80,875. D. C . Code, Supp. III, ch. 19. 509 Postal notes. Revision of fees Validity
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