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 528 - FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, Sess. II. C11. 123. 1883. For orders exceeding seventy dollars and not exceeding eighty dollars fort cents. For orncrs exceeding oighty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars forty-Evo cents. compensation of $1:10.,4. That. postmastcrs at money-order post-offices whose annual ¢¥¤¤k¤ *0 Wm? salary is not less than three thousand dollars may he allowed by the
 * 0:; {*;:l‘;:_°:gf Postmaster-General to employ such number of clerks m the txmxszwuon

ces. y of their monoyordor business, and at such rates oi compensation, rospactively, as he may deem expedient; and at all other money-order C¤m_p¤¤¤¤*·i9¤ post-offices the compensation for the clerical labor employed m tho Ek_ w` shall be three and ono-half cents for each domestic or mtcrnational money-order issued, paid, or repaid, and one cent for each postal note issued, and three-quarters of one cont for each postal noto paid theroat, and in case any office is designated to receive on deposit surplus money- order funds hom other post-offices, three and one-half cents for each certificate issued in acknowledgment of tho receipt of such funds; but the total allowance made by the Postmaster-General for money-order clerks at any llrstrclass ofllco shall be based, as nearly as possible, upon the number of transactions, at tho same rata for each transaction as is · _ nbovo tlxod for tho compensation of clerical labor at other post-otflcos, gf'::t°:;‘£g‘ and the compensation of tho postmastors und tho clerks provided for g:,; ’ in this section shall be paid out of tho foes received for tho issue of Prorioo. money-orders and postal notes: Provided, That ln addition to an allow- AU*Z"¤¤°°¤ *0 ance for clcncal service at the rates above mentioned, tho Postmaster- General may aglaolw to tho pos(t’m;aistcr at gx York, Now Yoga, to thlo 5,,,; y,;,,,,-_ postmaster at cisoo, ‘a i ornia, o postmas or at ort an, Omgon, and to the postmaster at each intcmutional oxolnngo oliioo, such amount in each oaso, out of tho proceeds of tho money-order busi- - ness, as he may doom expedient to enable these postmastcrs to obtain the clerical labor necessary for tho performance of such special duties as arc imposed upon them by the operations of the mouoyordor system,  and are not required of other postmastors: And providodfurther, That ?*°d** ¤u°:';_d credit shall not be allowed to a. postmaster at a first-class odico on anxy °P°" ""'° * count of any expenditure in payment of clerical service in tho money- order business bf his onico except upon a voucher duly recoiptod by tho person by whom such service shall have been performed: And pro- Proviao. uidedfurtlocr, That tho salaries of postmastors, as fixed by law, shall bo deemed and taken to be full compensation for tho responsibility and risk incurred and for the personal services rendered by them as custodiana of the money-order and other funds of tho Post-Oillco Departmont. · . Statement or Sec. 5. That the Auditor of the Treasury for tho Post-Ohico Depart- =¤¤¤¤¤* vf unpaid mont shall, as soon as practicable after tho close of tho present iiscal
 * `°'°‘°“°’; l"’;’"¥’ money-order business, including tho issue and payment of postal notes,
 * ‘:::{"‘;‘;**’“ at year, transmit to the Postmaster-General a statement of tho aggregate

,,,.,,1 ,,5;,, 0;. amount of all money-orders which at the beginning of said year shall hmm hom dau or have remained unpaid for a period of seven years or more after the date ¤¤¤¤¤- of their issue; and as soon as practicable after the close of each iiscal Statement, an- year thereafter he shall transmit in like manner a statement of tho ag- ¤¤¤¤\y. of ¤¤¤0¤¤|= grogatc amount of all money-orders and postal notes which at tho com- ‘:;g‘°]:‘0‘;g{"!'}:t;: rncnoement of such year shall have remained unpaid for less than mmaiuing unpaid exght and not less than seven years after the date of their issue; and for less than eight tho Postmaster-General shall cause the aggregate amount of such un- Do posi tz d to deposited m tho Treasury, to tho credit ol tho Treasurer of the United mm, ,,,·T,,,m,,m, Mates, for the service of the Post—O£1`ico Dopartment. But nothing cou- U. sqm. tained in this not shall be so construed as to prevent tho payment-, out P¤y¤¤$¢¤* of d¤- of current monoy·0rdor funds, by duplicate issued under tho authority invalid postal uoto more than seven years old, upon the presentation of satisihctory proof to the Postmaster-General of tho ownership of such monoyordor or upon tho production of such invalid postal now in
 * ¤:_;¤;;:£¤ ¢h¤¤ pmd orders and postal notes as reported annually by the Auditor to bc
 * ’h°“°·‘“‘*“°‘r °‘°· of the Postmaster-General, of any lost or invalid money-order or of any