SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 84. 1924. 89 purchase of equipment and furniture for post-oiilce quarters and ·‘·m°¤g*, ’°H °¤¤iP· for no other purposes. mmm umm"' For wrapping twine and tying devices, $518,500. ‘ Twi,,,,,m_ For defraying expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, in- Shipping s.,,,,,;i,,,_ cluding hardware, boxing, packing, and the pay of employees in Services connection therewith at the following annual rates: Storekeeper, ` $2,650; foreman, $1,800; ten requisition fillers, at $1,600 each; two requisition iillers, at $1,200 each; ten ackers, at $1,600 each; two pgglggibs at $1,200 each; and two chaugeurs, at $1,400 each; in all,
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For rental, purchase, exchange and re air of cancelin machines °°“°°“”‘ ?‘“‘§ '§"°" and motors, mechanical mail-haiidling alpparatus and oiiher labor- nvmgmmme wi savingl devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and misce aneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including salaries of five traveling mechanicians and for per diem ,,f,'§,,‘f"’°“"‘ “‘°°"‘““° allowance of travelin mechanicians while actually traveling on official business away grom their homes and their oihcial domiciles, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster General, not to exceed $4 per day, $500,000. ` For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and Mw b°“°·‘°°'“·°‘°· other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, and m§,gg3>¤g;¤* ¤¤¤v¤ tools necessaryl for the manufacture and repair in the equipment ’ ` shops at Was ington, District of Columbia of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; for um. compensation to labor employed in the equipment shop'; at Wash- p,,,,;,,,_ ington, District of Columbia, $1,960000: Provided, at out of m ; g’ this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use mam, and insular as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed °°°“”'°””° necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; an for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in ,,,,§,,‘°;,’_’°“‘° "°°"’°" Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, $12,900,000. ml eu For pay of rural carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual R d "”' and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $89,250,000, of which amount $300,000, or so much thereof ,,,§€§{°"“m°‘ "' as may be necessary, shall be immediately available for the establishment of new routes recommended and approved by the Department. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office T“"°r °‘°· of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. _ If the revenues of the Post Office De artment shall be insufficient ,,;§ ,,,,,",‘§} to meet the appro riations made imdhr Title II of this Act, a *¤ ¤°°“’ sum equal to such dleficiency in the revenues of such department is ` hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise apggpgmriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post ce Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. Approved, April 4, 1924.
