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420 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 466-JUNE 14, 1948 [62 STAT. Pot,p.66. Foreign air mail service: For transportation of foreign mails by aircraft, as authorized by law, $23,042,000. Post,p. 4. Domestic air mail service: For expenses necessary for the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, as authorized by law, including not to exceed $176,000 for supervisory officials and clerks at field head- quarters, $32,000,000. OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Pod, p. 54. Stamps and stamped paper: For manufacture and distribution of . S. Stamped En- stamps and stamped paper, and not to exceed $30,000 for compensation velope Agency to employees and other necessary expenses of the United States Stamped Envelope Agency, $9,335,000. Po, p. 564. 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 1949 and prior years, $3,775,000. Pot, p. 664. Unpaid money orders: For payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, $900,000. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Po, p. 664. Miscellaneous supplies and equipment: For the purchase, manu- facture, repair, and installation of necessary miscellaneous equipment and supplies for the Postal Service not provided for in other appro- priations; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and tech- nical works not to exceed $1,500; and not exceeding $191,400 for personal services, including salaries of fourteen traveling mecha- Labor-saving de- nicians; for rental of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other labor-saving devices; and for travel expenses; $7,658,000, of which $400,000 shall be available exclusively for the purchase of modern mechanical postal devices, and of which $50,000 shall be available exclusively for mechanizing devices for separation of mails, and $50,000 shall be available exclusively for the necessary research, and for the (lesign, manufacture, and instal- lation of pilot mail-sorting equipment, as recommended on page 73 of House Report Numbered 1656, Eightieth Congress, second session, and for the necessary supervision of the installation and operation saleomawp. of such equipment: Provided, That the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added. Pat, p. 6 Equipment shops: For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other equipment for the postal service not provided for in other appropriations; necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance, and protection of the mail equipment shops building, grounds, and equipment, and a health service program as authorized 60 tat. 903. by law (5 U. S . C. 150); $12,853.625, of which not to exceed $1,255,000 Distictve equipmay be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia ment. and not exceeding $15,000 for the purchase of material and the manu- facture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for services in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, or other island possessions. Rent, fuel, and utility services: For rent, light, power, fuel, and water, for first-, second-, and third-class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices, $14,750,000. Pneumatic tube service: For rental of not exceeding twenty-eight miles of pneumatic tubes, hire of labor, communication service, electric power, and other expenses for transmission of mail in the city of New York including the Borough of Brooklyn; and for rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not including labor and