first-class offices to employ temporary clerks at the rate of twenty-five cents an hour during the rush or busy hours of the day

For separating mails at third and fourth class post-offices, eight hundred thousand dollars..

For unusual conditions at second, third and fourth class post-offices, one hundred thousand dollars

For allowance to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no allowance in excess of two hundred dollars shall be made where the salary of the postmater is one thousand dollars, one thousand one hundred dollars, or one thousand two hundred dollars; nor in excess of three hundred dollars where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand three hundred dollars, one thousand four hundred dollars, or one thousand five hundred dollars; nor in excess of four hundred dollars where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand six hundred dollars, one thousand seven hundred dollars, one thousand eight hundred dollars, or one thousand nine hundred dollars

For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class postoffices, three million dollars: Provided, That there shall not be allowed for the use of any third-class post-office for rent a sum in excess of four hundred dollars, nor more than eighty dollars for fuel and light in any one year: And provided further, That the PostmasterGeneral may, in the disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for the use of post-offices of the first, second, and third classes, at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, for a term not exceeding ten years

For necessary miscellaneous and incidental items directly connected with first and second class post-offices and money-order service, including furniture, cleaning, and all other matters not specifically provided for in other appropriations, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For rental or purchase of canceling machines, including cost of power in rented buildings, motors, repairs to motors, and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For compensation to ten assistant superintendents, salary and allowance division, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each, and for their per diem allowance when actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, at a rate to be fixed by the PostmasterGeneral not to exceed four dollars per day, and for other necessary official expenses, thirty-four thousand six hundred dollars

For pay of letter carriers and substitute letter carriers at offices already established, and for pay of substitute and temporary letter carriers for holiday, election, emergency, and summer and winterresort service, city delivery service, twenty-two million two hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars

For pay of letter carriers and substitute letter carriers at new offices entitled to city delivery service under existing law, fifty thousand dollars.

For horse-hire allowance, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars

For car fare and bicycle allowance, three hundred and forty thousand dollars

For compensation to twenty-two mechanics, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars

For marine postal service, Detroit, Michigan, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For all incidental expenses of the city delivery service, including freight and drayage on equipment, furniture, and supplies, painting, repairing, and erecting letter and package boxes and posts, repairing

$152,000.00

800,000.00

100, 000. 00

750,000.00

3, 000, 000. 00

250,000.00

250,000.00

34, 600.00

22, 228,000.00

50,000.00 725,000.00

340, 000. 00

19, 800.00

4,500.00

clocks and other equipments, maps, and miscellaneous items, forty thousand dollars

For car fare for special-delivery messengers in emergent cases, ten thousand dollars

For fees to special-delivery messengers, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars

For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars: Provided, That a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars may be used for the purchase of city directories and books of reference. [Total amount under Office of the First Assistant Postmaster- General, $78,628,700.]

OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

For inland transportation by star routes, including temporary service to newly established offices, seven million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for continuance of any star route service the patronage of which shall be served entirely by the extension of rural delivery service, nor shall any of said, sum be expended for the establishment of new star route service for a patronage which is already entirely served by rural delivery service: Provided, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster-General is authorized to provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such manner as he may think advisable, without advertising therefor

For inland transportation by steamboat, or other power-boat routes, eight hundred thousand dollars.

For mail-messenger service, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars

For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices, nine hundred thousand dollars, and the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to enter into contracts not exceeding, in the aggregate, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, under the provisions of the law, for a period not exceeding ten years: Provided, That said service shall not be extended in any cities other than those in which the service is now under contract under authority of Congress, except the Borough of Brooklyn, of the city of New York, and the cities of Baltimore, Maryland; Cincinnati, Ohio; Kansas City, Missouri; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California

For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, one million two hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars

For mail bags, cord fasteners, label cases, and labor and material necessary for repairing equipment, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars..

For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, and machinery, and labor and material necessary for repairing same, and incidental expenses pertaining thereto, forty-five thousand dollars

For rent of buildings for a mail-bag repair shop and lock repair shop, and for fuel, electric power, light, gas, watchmen, charwomen, oil, and repair of machinery for said shops, fourteen thousand dollars.

For inland transportation by railroad routes, forty-three million dollars. That the Postmaster-General shall require all railroads carrying the mails under contract to comply with the terms of said contract, as to time of arrival and departure of said mails, and it shall be his duty to impose and collect reasonable fines for delay, when such delay is not caused by unavoidable accidents or conditions.

For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and

$40,000.00

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950,000.00

1,000.00

7,250,000.00

800,000.00

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900, 000. 00 1,227,000.00

450,000.00

45,000.00

14,000.00

43, 000, 000, 00

other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General shall require, when in freightable lots and whenever practicable, the withdrawal from the mails of all postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, in the respective weighing divisions of the country immediately preceding the weighing period in said divisions, and such postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, shall be transmitted by either freight or express

And the Postmaster-General shall require a record from July first to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six, of all second-class mail matter received for free distribution, and also at the one cent a pound rate, so as to show the weights in pounds, respectively by classes, of daily newspapers, weekly and other than daily newspapers, magazines, scientific periodicals, educational periodicals, religious periodicals, trade-journal periodicals, agricultural periodicals, miscellaneous periodicals, and sample copies of said newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, and make report to Congress of such information by February first, nineteen hundred and seven, together with an estimate of the average length of haul of said respective classes above named. And the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to cover the expense of compiling such information.

The chief officer of each of the several Executive Departments, independent bureaus, and Government establishments, having headquarters in Washington, District of Columbia, shall maintain from July first to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six, a record of all mail entered at Washington by each under the penalty privilege during said period, so as to show the character and quantity of said mail by the several classes of mail as defined by law, and report to Congress not later than February first, nineteen hundred and seven, the number of pieces and weight by the said several classes of mail, and the amount of postage which would have been required for each of said respective classes calculated at the regular postage rates as provided by law.

For railway post-office car service, five million eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars

RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE: One general superintendent, at four thousand dollars; one assistant general superintendent, at three thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, office of general superintendent, at two thousand dollars; one assistant chief clerk, office of general superintendent, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; eleven division superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; eleven assistant division superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; five assistant superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; nineteen assistant superintendents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one hundred and twenty-five chief clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two hundred and fifty-nine clerks, class six, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; one thousand two hundred and fifty clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; five hundred and twenty-eight clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; one thousand eight hundred and fifty clerks, class four, at not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; one thousand seven hundred and fifty clerks, class four, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; five thousand four hundred clerks, class three, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; two thousand one hundred and seventy clerks, class two, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each;

$250,000.00

25,000.00

5,875, 000. 00

nine hundred and five clerks, class one, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; in all, fifteen million dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, under such regulations as he may provide, allow a clerk who is sick leave of absence with pay, his duties to be performed without expense to the Government during the period for which he is granted leave, not exceeding thirty days in any fiscal year

And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall be so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum.

In the assignment or transfer of clerks from the railway mail service, however, preference shall be given to the persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service who served in the civil war and who are now serving as clerks on the railway-mail cars in order that they may be transferred to clerical service in the Department or in the postoffices and relieved from service on said cars as rapidly as practicable, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of the offices to which they may be transferred.

For temporary clerk hire in classes one and two for emergency service, fifty thousand dollars

For substitutes for clerks on vacation, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster-General may allow railway postal clerks whose duties require them to work six days or more per week, fiftytwo weeks per year, an annual vacation of fifteen days with pay

For acting clerks, in place of clerks injured while on duty, and to enable the Postmaster-General to pay the sum of one thousand dollars, which shall be exempt from the payment of debts of the deceased, to the legal representatives of any railway postal clerk or substitute railway postal clerk who shall be killed while on duty or who, being injured while on duty, shall die within one year thereafter as the result of such injury, one hundred thousand dollars

For actual and necessary expenses of general superintendent, assistant general superintendent, chief clerk, and assistant chief clerk, office of general superintendent division of railway mail service, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, and chief clerks, railway mail service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, twenty thousand dollars

For rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneous office expenses, schedules of mail trains, telephone service, and badges for railway postal clerks, fifty-eight thousand dollars...

For per diem allowance of assistant superintendents, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; and for their necessary official expenses not covered by their per diem allowance, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That assistant superintendents may receive a per diem allowance in lieu of actual and necessary traveling expenses at the rate of four dollars per day while actually traveling on business of the Department

For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, eight hundred and seventy thousand dollars: Provided, That the rate of compensation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid. to companies performing such service, except that the PostmasterGeneral, in cases where the quantity of mail is large and the number of exchange points numerous, may, in his discretion, authorize payment for closed-pouch service at a rate per mile not to exceed onethird above the rate per mile now paid for closed-pouch service; and for mail cars and apartments carrying the mails, not to exceed the rate of one cent per linear foot per car mile of travel: Provided further, That the rates for electric-car service on routes over twenty miles in

length outside of cities shall not exceed the rates paid for service on steam railroads: Provided, however, That one hundred and seventytwo thousand six hundred dollars of the sum in this item appropriated is hereby made available for the purpose of covering the cost of mail service by underground electric cars in the city Chicago, Illinois, now under contract....

For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines from Washington to Atlanta and New Orleans, one hundred and forty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents: Provided, That the Postmaster-General shall not be authorized to use the money hereby appropriated, or any part thereof, unless it be necessary in order to provide the same or as good a service as is now provided.

For continuing necessary and special facilities on trunk lines from Kansas City, Missouri, to Newton, Kansas, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended unless the Postmaster-General shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest of the postal service.

For transportation of foreign mails, three million dollars: Provided, That hereafter the Postmaster-General shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding one hundred and five thousand dollars, to cover one-half of the cost of transportation, compensation, and expense of clerks to be employed in assorting and pouching mails in transit on steamships between the United States and other postal administrations in the International Postal Union, and not exceeding forty thousand dollars for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in New York Bay to the steamship and railway piers, and for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in San Francisco Bay to the piers

For assistant superintendent, division of foreign mails, with headquarters in New York, New York, two thousand five hundred dollars. For balances due foreign countries, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars

For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars: Provided, That a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars may be used for the purchase of railway guides, city directories, and other books and periodicals necessary in connection with mail transportation..... [Total amount under Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, $80,688,228.75.]

OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, and books of stamps, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no contract for the manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, or books of stamps shall be made by the Government with any Department or Bureau of the Government below the cost of such work to the Government..

For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, one million seventy-five thousand dollars

For pay of agents and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, twenty thousand two hundred dollars...

For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars

For pay of agents and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, five hundred dollars

$870,000.00

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