PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 274-JULY 6, 1945 (1) Temporary employees in the custodial service shall be paid at the respective rates of pay of grade 1 provided herein for regular employees. POST-OFFICE INSPECTORS AND CLERKS IN THE INSPECTION SERVICE SEC. 15. (a) The annual salaries of inspectors in charge, assistant inspectors in charge, and supervisory employees at division head- quarters of the Inspection Service shall be as follows: Post-office inspectors in charge, $6,700. Assistant post-office inspectors in charge, $6,000. Chief clerks, $4,000. Assistant chief clerks, $3,500. Chiefs of sections, $3,400. (b) Post-office inspectors shall be divided into ten grades with annual salaries as follows: Grade 1- -------------------- $3,200 Grade 2---------------- - --- 3,400 Grade 3--------------------- 3,600 Grade 4- --------------- --. 3, 800 Grade 5-------------------- 4,000 Grade 6------------------ Grade 7--------------------- Grade 8---------------------- Grade 9--------------------- Grade 10----------------..- $4,200 4,600 5,000 5,500 6,000 and shall be promoted successively at the beginning of the quarter following one year's satisfactory service in each grade until they reach grade 8: Provided, That promotion of not more than 25 per centum of the authorized quota of inspectors may be made to grades 9 and 10. The Postmaster General shall assign difficult or complex work to be performed by inspectors in grades 9 and 10 and shall select the inspectors to be assigned to these grades under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe: Provided further, That inspectors will not be selected for promotion to grades 9 and 10 until they have completed at least one year's faithful and meritorious service in the next lower grade. (c) The clerical force of the Post Office Inspection Service shall be classified as clerks and principal review clerks. (d) Clerks at division headquarters and other posts of duty of post-office inspectors shall be divided into nine grades with annual salaries as follows: Grade 1---------------------- $1,900 Grade 6.----------------- _ $2,400 Grade 2--------------------- 2, 000 Grade 7 -----
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2,500 Grade 3----------------------- 2, 100 Grade 8 .-- ---------- ------- 2,600 Grade 4---------------------- 2, 200 Grade9-------- - 2,700 Grade 5---------------------- 2,300 and shall be promoted successively at the beginning of the quarter following one year's satisfactory service in each grade to the next higher grade until they reach grade 9: Provided, That for such clerks there shall be three additional grades; that is, grade 10, $2,800; grade 11, $2,900; grade 12, $3,000; and that clerks who perform faithful and meritorious service shall be promoted to grade 10, after three years of such service in grade 9; shall be promoted to grade 11, after five years of such service in grade 10; and shall be promoted to grade 12, after seven years of such service in grade 11. (e) Principal review clerks at division headquarters of post-office inspectors shall be divided into four grades with annual salaries as follows: Grade 1-------------------- $2, 700 Grade 3---------------- - . $2, 900 Grade 2------------------ 2,800 Grade 4---------------- -- 3,000 Promotion of inspeo- tors to grades 9 and 10. Additional grades. [59 STAT.
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