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 776 Trims xLv1.——THE POSTAL SERVICE.—Cr-r. 12. Whw ¤i>¤¢i¤| Sec. 4018. Whenever a special agent is required to collect or disburse gegis l° 8**** any public money, he shall, before entering_upon such duty, give bond .&T_.*_. in such sum and form, and with such security, as the Postmaster-Geni -.1*-33- eral ma a rove. Assistant Post- Sec. {C15? The Postmaster-General may employ, when the service re- ¤¤¤S¥¢¤‘¤·G¢¤¢¤}l» uires it, the Assistant Postmasters-General and superintendents in his &°‘* ,8 '“' “P°"’“l hepartment as special agents: and he may allow them therefor not ex- ceeding the amount expended by them as necessary traveling expenses ‘ ·» "*· · while so employed. Railway-service Sec. 4020i) The Postmaster—General rrray appoint two agents to super- °8°¤*° and *h°“' intend the railway stal—service, each of whom shall be paid out of the Bm appro riation for 5:2 transportation of the mail, a salary at the rate of Ibid-, S- 35- two thousand five hundred dollars a year, with an allowance for- traveling and incidental expenses, while actively employed in the service, of not more than five dollars a day; and the Sixth Auditor shall charge to the appropriation for mail transportation the salary and per diem of the assistant superintendents of the postal railway-service; and to the alppropriation for the free-delivery system the salarv and per diem of the special agent detailed for that service; and the salary and per diem of t e special agents employed in the money—order service shal be paid out of the proceeds of that service. R€¤id<=¤*> ¤¥¤¤'¤¤ Sec. 4021. The Postmaster-General may establish resident mail-ageng:n{;°h‘;““° P"‘ cies at the ports of Panama and Aspinwall, in New Granada; Havana, -TL;-;- in Cuba; at Saint Thomas, and at such other foreign ports at which Ibld-¤ S- 36- United States mail—steamers touch to land and receive mails, as may, in his judgment, promote the efficiency of the foreign mail-service; and may pay the agents employed by him at such ports, out of the appropriation for transportation of the mail, a reasonab e compensation for their services, and the necessary expenses for office-rent, clerk- hire, office—furniture, and other incidentals, to be allowed him at each of such agencies. A8¢¤¢·¤ OH ml}"- Sec. 4022. The Postmaster-General may appoint an agent in charge of “°:t‘;‘°”*° i°'°‘¥“ the mail on board of each of the mail·steamers on the routes between San L Francisco, Japan, and China; between San Francisco and Honolulu, in Ibid-» B- 37- the Hawaiian Islands, and between New York and Rio Janeiro, who shall be allowed, out of the appropriation for transportation of the mail, a salary of two thousand dollirrs a year. _ Postal agencies Sec. 4023. The Postmaster-General mav establish, in connection with m (#h“'” md J“‘ the mail-steamshi service to Ja n and China, a general postal agency p].Y;____ at Shanghai, in (Shins, or at Yldkohama, in Japan, with such branc lbid·,¤-38,P-290- agencies at any other ports in China and Japan as he shall deem necessary for the prompt and efficient management of the postal service in those countries; and he may pay the postal agents employed thereat a reasonable compensation for their services, in addition to the necessary expenses for rent, furniture, clerk—hire, and incidental expenses. Routeagents. Sec. -1024. The Postmaster-General may employ as many r0utc—agent¤ Ibid_, ,,_ gg_ as may be necessary for the prompt and safe transportation of the mail, each of whom shall be paid, out of the appropriation for transportation of the mail, a salary at the rate of not less than nine hundred nor more than one thousand two hundred dollars a year each. Clerks i¤ 1‘¤il· Sec. 4025. The Postmaster-General may appoint clerks forthe pur osé }E’_lf2EYj?{llE‘EE; of asserting and distributing the mail in railway post-oflices,  of Ibid., S. 40. whom shall be paid, out of the appropriation for trans rtation of the mail, a salary at the rate of not more than one thousanilo four hundred dollars a year each to the head clerks, nor more than one thousand two hundred ollars a vear each to the other clerks. _ $€¤¤‘¤h€¤¤¤¢h0¤‘· Sec. 4026. The Postmaster-General may, b a letter of authorization }’°‘l;_____ under his hand, to be filed among the record; of his De rtment, cm- Ibid., s. M, p. power any special agent or other officer of the Post-Oiiice ligtablishment 322- to make searches for mailahle matter transported in violation of law; and_ the agent or officer so authorized may open and search any car or vehicle passing, or having lately before passed, from any place at which there IS a post—office of the United States to an other such place, or any box, package, or packet, being, or having lately before been, in such car