SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 368. 1925. 1055 their sworn quarterly returns: Provided, That when the total com- ,{g*‘*°·eee pensation of any postmaster at a post office of the fourth class for the classiiuietmiig $$:5 calendar gear shall amount to $1,100, exclusive of commissions on $1’5°°“’°‘“‘ money or ers issued, and the receipts of such post office for the same period shall aggregate as much as $1,500, the office shall be assigned to its proper class on July 1, following, and the salary of the post- Compensation ro: master fixed according to the receipts: Promkled further, That in no mt mm ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤· case shall there be allowed any postmaster of this class a compensation greater than $300 in any one of the first three quarters of the fiscal year, exclusive of money-order commissions, and in the last quarter of each fiscal year there shall be allowed such further sums as he may be entitled to under the provisions of this Act, not exceeding for the whole fiscal year the sum of $1,100, exclusive of money-order Ad me commissions: Ami provided further, That whenever unusual condi- oimiiumwigiohriiit tions prevail the Postmaster General, in his discretion, may advance §f,‘§,“§§,g},'f°' ““““““‘ any (post office from the fourth class to the appropriate class indicate by the receipts of the preceding quarter, notwithstanding the proviso which requires the compensation of fourth—class postmasters VOM, p_e,8_ to reach $1,100 for the calendar year, exclusive of commissions on ' money-order business, and that the receipts of such post office for the same period shall aggregate as much as $1,500 before such advance- Redeem, when ee ment is made: And provided further, That when the Postmaster ceiptsdecrease. General has exercised the authority herein granted, he shall, whenever the receipts are no longer sufficient to justify retaining such post office in the class to which It has been advanced, reduce the grade of such office to the appropriate class indicated by its receipts for the last preceding quarter. Src. 2. That post—office inspectors shall be divided into six grades, {;<=l5;d*g¤¤;e¤¤¤¤¤¢*¤*¤ V as follows: Grade 1-salary, $2,800; grade 2-salary, $3,000; grade °° ' 3—»salary, $3,200; ade 4-¢salary, $3,500; de 5—salary, $3,800; ade 6-—-salary, $,000, and there shall gd-afifteen inspectors in Pr . giarge at $4,500: Prolvekled, That in the readjustment of grades for no'iiiii°»iimon: ol inspectors to conform to the grades herein provided, inspectors who °'°“°“‘”°d“· are now in present grades 1 and 2 shall be included in dgrade 1; inspectors who are now in present grade 3 shall be include in grade 2; inspectors who are now in present grade 4 shall be included in grade 3; inspectors who are now in present grade 5 shall be included in ° grade 4; inspectors who are now in present grade 6 shall be included in ade 5; and inspectors who are now in present grade 7 shall be inciided in grade 6: Provided further, That inspectors shall be pro- Yearly pmmonons. moted successively to grade 5 at the beginning 0 the quarter fol owing a year’s satisfactory service in the next ower grade, and not to exceed 35 per centum of the force to grade 6 for meritorious service after not less than one year’s service in grade 5; and the time served by inspectors in their present grade shall be included in the year’s service required for promotion in the grades provided herein, except as to inspectors in present grade 1. Inspectors and su erviso employees of the Railway Mail Service eefe¤gge{¤¤¤¤ 0* i¤¤¥¤=<>· and post offices shaliqbe paidy their actual expenses as fixed by law. " That clerks at division headguarters of post-office inspectors shall hegggxgeeeg di"$*°¤ beéliviided inte six grades, as dollowszl S d 1 A ra e 1-sa a 1,900; gra e 2-sa a , -2,000; gra e 3-—sa ary, :'°d°$ **•¤ P¤Y· $2150; grade 4—riYshlary, $2.300; grade 5-risalary, $2.450; grade 6- onio°iia¤·1il’ p` lm Salary, $2,600; and there shall be one chief clerk at each division head- _ quarters at a salary of $3,000: Provided, That in the readjustment of meee he _ grades for clerks at division headquarters to conform to the grades ¤1¤<Mi¤¤¤e newherein provided. clerks who are now in present grade 1 shall be included in grade 1; clerks who are now in present grade 2 shall be included in grade 2; clerks who are now in present grade 3 shall be included in grade 3: clerks who are now in present grade 4 shall be 458L"°—·25`i'—69
