PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 466 -JUNE 14, 1948 Chemical, etc., in- vestigations. P. 0. inspection service. Death of offender. Limitation. Securing of informa- tion. 60 Stat. g93 . inspection service, not to exceed $27,600 for chemical and other investigations, and not to exceed $500 for books of reference, $958,000. Clerks: For compensation of not exceeding three hundred and eighty-nine clerks in the post office inspection service, $1,178,000. Rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post office burglars, robbers, highway mail robbers, and persons mailing or causing to be mailed any bomb, infernal machine, or mechanical, chemical, or other device or composition which may ignite, or explode, fiscal year 1949 and prior years, $55,000: Provided, That rewards may be paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the classes mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 28673, dated July 28, 1945: Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and infor- mation looking toward the apprehension of criminals. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Compensation to postmasters: For compensation to postmasters, including compensation as postmaster to persons who, pending the designation of an acting postmaster, assume and perform the duties of postmaster in the event of a vacancy in the office of postmaster of the third or fourth class, and to persons who perform the duties for postmasters of the fourth class absent on sick or annual leave or leave without pay, and for allowances for rent, light, fuel, and equip- ment to postmasters of the fourth class, $87,900,000. Compensation to assistant postmasters: For compensation to assistant postmasters at first- and second-class post offices, $12,600,000. Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For compensation to clerks and employees at first- and second-class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, mail handlers, and substitutes, and the maintenance of health service program as author- ized by law (5 U. S . C . 150), $530,000,000. Contract station service: For contract station service, $3,500,000. Separating mails: For separating mails at fourth-class post offices, $180,000. Unusual conditions: For unusual conditions at post offices, $25,000. Clerks, third-class post offices: For compensation to clerks at third- class post offices, $25,500,000. Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For expenses necessary for the operation and protection of post offices of the first and second classes, and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $3,850,000. Village delivery service: For village delivery service in towns and villages having post offices of the second or third class, and in com- munities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $300,000. Detroit River service: For Detroit River postal service, $12,750. Carfare and bicycle allowance: For carfare and bicycle allowance, including special delivery carfare, cost of transporting carriers by privately owned automobiles to and from their routes, at rates not exceeding regular streetcar or bus fare, and purchase, maintenance, and exchange of bicycles, $2,900,000. City delivery carriers: For pay of letter carriers, city delivery service, and United States official mail and messenger service, $326,000,000. 418 [62 STAT.
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