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60 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 588-JULY 20, 1946 Railway Mail Service, travel expenses: For actual and necessary travel expenses, general superintendent and assistant general super- intendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintend- ents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, $58,000. Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses: For all necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Railway Mail Service not provided for in other appropriations, $415,000. Electric-car service: For electric-car service, $235,000. Foreign mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mails, except by aircraft, $4,000,000: Provided,That the Postmaster General is authorized to spend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $72,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying mails to and from the United States. Balances due foreign countries: The unexpended balances of the appropriations, "Balances due foreign countries", for the fiscal years 1944, 1945, and 1946 are hereby made available for the fiscal year 1947 and prior years. Indemnities, international mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with con- vention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, fiscal year 1947 and prior years, $8,000: Provided, That the unexpended balances of the appro- priations, "Indemnities, international mail", for the fiscal years 1945 and 1946, are hereby made available for the fiscal year 1947 and prior years. Foreign air-mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mails by aircraft, as authorized by law, including the transportation of mail by aircraft between Seattle, Washington, and Fairbanks, Alaska, via, intermediate points, $5,000,000. Domestic Air Mail Service: For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, as authorized by law, and for all necessary miscellaneous and travel expenses, and including not to exceed $106,000 for super- visory officials and clerks at field headquarters, $49,000,000. OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: For manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper, and not to exceed $27,000 for compensation to employees of the United States Stamped Envelope Agency, and for all necessary miscellaneous expenses of said agency, $6,500,000. Indemnities, domestic mail: For payment of indemnity for the injury or loss of domestic registered, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on -delivery charges, fiscal year 1947 and prior years, $2,200,000. Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, $1,300,000. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Post Office stationery, equipment, and supplies: For the purchase, manufacture, repair, and installation of all necessary miscellaneous equipment and supplies for the Postal Service not provided for in other appropriations; for incidental expenses of the Postal Service not provided for in other appropriations; accident prevention; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works not to exceed $1,500; and not exceeding $112,250 for personal services, and not to exceed $42,200 for salaries of thirteen traveling mechanicians; 583 Post, p. 619. Sea post service. 57 Stat. 266; 58 Stat. 211; 59 Stat. 71. 58 Stat. 211; 59 Stat. 71. U. S . Stamped En- velope Agency.