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 FORTYJTOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 179. 1876. 81 master-General, by whom all appointments and removals shall be noti-. use to the Auditor for the Post-Ofnce Department. Sec. 7. That the respective compensations of postmasters of the first, Salaries of postseeond, and third classes shall be annual salaries, assigned in even m“'“*g” °f, *;¥°*’• hundreds of dollars, and payable in quarterly payments, to be ascertained 2T22S2S' 32,,,, and fixed by the Postmaster General from their respective quarterly re- ssa pain. turns to the Auditor for the Post-Ofnee Department, or copies or duplieatcs thereof, for four quarters immediately preceding the adjustment or re-adjustment, by adding to an amount of the box·rents of the office received or estimated not exceeding thirteen hundred and nfty dollars when the boxes are supplied and owned by the postmaster, and two thirds of the box-rents, and not to exceed one thousand dollars when the boxes are not supplied and owned by the postmaster, commissions on all other postal revenues of the ofuice to an amount not exceeding thirteen hundred and nfty dollars, at the following rates, namely: on the nrst one hundred dollars per quarter, sixty per centum; on all over one hundred dollars and not over three hundred dollars per quarter, nfty per centum; on all over three hundred dollars and not over seven hundred dollars per quarter, forty per centum; and thirty per centum on all revenues exceeding seven hundred dollars per quarter, but the aggregate of the said commissions not to exceed thirteen hundred and nfty dollars; and at all offices where the total revenues exceed, respectively, four thousand dollars per annum, there shall be added to the compensation hereinbefore provided from box-rents and commissions a percentage of the gross revenues at the following rates, namely: one per centum on all sums over four thousand dollars and not exceeding ten thousand dollars; nine-tenths of one per centum on all sums over ten thousand dollars and not exceeding twenty thousand dollars; eight-tenths of one per centum on all sums over twenty thousand dollars and not exceeding forty thousand dollars; six tenths of one per centum on all sums over forty thousand dollars and not exceeding eighty thousand dollars; nve-tenthsof one per centum on all sums over eighty thousand dollars and not exceeding one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; four-tenths of one per centum on all sums over one hundred and sixty thousand dollars and not exceeding three hundred and twenty thousand dollars; three-tenths of one per centum on all sums over three hundred and twenty thousand dollars and not exceeding six hundred and forty thousand dollars; twotenths of one per centum on all sums not over six hundred and Peel, p. 215. tbrty thousand dollars and not exceeding one million two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and one-tenth of one per centum on all sums exceeding one million two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and in order to ascertain the amount of the postal _ D 1. t receipts of each office, the l’ostmaster·General may require postmas- ,,,,1;,1}.1,5:.,:, ters to furnish duplicates of their quarterly returns to the Auditor to be furnished to at such times and for such periods as he may deem necessary in each P<>¤t¤¤¤¤t¤r—G¤>¤<>- ease: Provided, That at oinces where the lettencarrier system is now, rabmcos wh r or may hereafter be, established, the box-rents, in fixing the compensa- 1Bm,,._,,,,,.m,. :,,:3 tion of the respective postmasters at such offices, shall be estimated at tem is establishes. not less than one thousand dollars per annum; but at all such offices where the compensation is now four thousand dollars, they shall be es— timated at an amount which, with the commissions and percentages hereby allowed, will make the salaries of the postmasters thereat not less than three thousand dollars. Sec. 8; That the compensation of postmasters of the fourth class shall Salaries of pwbe the boxrents collected at their ofnces, and commissions on other ”;?S‘°” °f f°“"°’* postal revenues of their ofnces at the following rate, namely: On the ° ""' first one hundred dollars or less per quarter, sixty per centum ; on all over one hundred dollars and not over three hundred dollars per quarter, fifty per centum ; and all over three hundred dollars per quarter, forty per centum ; the same to be ascertained and allowed by the Auditor in the settlement of the quarterly accounts of such postmasters: Provided, That when the aggregate annual compensation, exclusive of commissions xix-—-6