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[72 Stat. 761]
PUBLIC LAW 85-000—MMMM. DD, 1958
[72 Stat. 761]

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PUBLIC LAW 86-726-AUG. 23, 1958

revise, suspend, or cancel such order; and, pending such review and the determination thereof, may postpone the effective date of such order. The Board shall give preference to proceedings under this subsection over all proceedings pending before it. No air carrier shall transport mail in accordance with any schedule other than a schedule designated or ordered to be established under this subsection for the transportation of mail. MAXIMUM M A I L LOAD

(c) The Board may fix the maximum mail load for any schedule or for any aircraft or any type of aircraft; but, in the event that mail in excess of the maximum load is tendered by the Postmaster General for transportation by any air carrier in accordance with any schedule designated or ordered to be established by the Postmaster General under subsection (b) of this section for the transportation of mail, such air carrier shall, to the extent such air carrier is reasonably able as determined by the Board, furnish facilities sufficient to transport, and shall transport, such mail as nearly in accordance with such schedule as the Board shall determine to be possible. TENDER o r

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(d) From and after the issuance of any certificate authorizing the transportation of mail by aircraft, the Postmaster General shall tender mail to the holder thereof, to the extent required by the Postal Service, for transportation between the points named in such certificate for the transportation of mail, and such mail shall be transported by the air carrier holding such certificate in accordance with such rules, regulations, and requirements as may be promulgated by the Postmaster General under this section. FOREIGN POSTAL A R R A N G E M E N T

(e)(1) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to abrogate or affect any arrangement made by the United States with the postal administration of any foreign country with respect to transportation of mail by aircraft, or to impair the authority of the Postmaster General to enter into any such arrangement with the postal administration of any foreign country. (2) The Postmaster General may, in any case where service may be necessary by a person not a citizen of the United States who may not be obligated to transport the mail for a foreign country, make arrangements, without advertising, with such person for transporting mail by aircraft to or within any foreign country. TRANSPORTATION OF FOREIGN

MAIL

(f)(1) Any air carrier holding a certificate to engage in foreign air transportation and transporting mails of foreign countries shall transport such mails subject to control and regulation by the United States. The Postmaster General shall from time to time fix the rates of compensation that shall be charged the respective foreign countries for the transportation of their mails by such air carriers, and such rates shall be put into effect by the Postmaster General in accordance with the provisions of the postal convention regulating the postal relations between the United States and the respective foreign countries, or as provided hereinafter in this subsection. In any case where the Postmaster General deems such diction to be in the public interest, he may approve rates provided in arrangements

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