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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 613. 1900. 1259 tendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; twenty-one assistant superintendents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; eighty-five chief clerks, in charge of lines, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; twelve hundred and twenty-seven clerks, class five, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one thousand six hundred and thirty-two clerks of class four, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three thousand six hundred and five clerks, class three, at one thousand dollars each; one thousand nine hundred and eight - seven clerks, class two, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; five hundred and twenty-five clerks, class one, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each. _ For substitutes for clerks on vacation,·£fty thousand dollars: Pro- cl§’,‘§§’§§‘§§c§§§,f°’ vided, That the Postmaster-General may allow railway postal clerks {;¤>vi€{>- H whose duties require them to work six days or more per week, fifty- °°° °°° °w°d` two weeks per year, an annual vacation of fifteen days, with pay. _ _ For acting clerks in place of _ clerks injured while on duty, twenty- ju$§§'{,‘f€§§Q{“gf°’ ‘“‘ five thousand dollars. I W For actual and necessary explenses of General Superintendent, assist- '*"”'°““8°XP°¤S°S· ant general superintendent, c ief clerk office general superintendent,, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, chief clerks, and railway—postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Department and away from their several designated headquar- » ters, forty thousand dollars. - For per diem allowance of assistant superintendents, thirty-four suPg{_igg¤¤}i ¤i¤iS¤¤¤¤ thousand dollars: Provided, That assistant superintendentsmay receive iimqaau an S' _ a per diem allowance in lieu of actual and necessary traveling expenses §,§§,,}f§,Q§,_°f ‘“"’°’““‘ at the rate of four dollars per day while actually traveling on business of the Department away from their several desi nated headquarters. In all, for railway mail service, nine million eiggt hundred and sixty- Amount. three thousand nine hundred dollars. ‘ For inland transglortation of mail by electric and cable cars, three ca*§g·;%g€°¤d Gable hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the rate of com- emo._ pensation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to 'mm “‘°° PB" “‘""‘ companies performing said service. For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines from New York SP°°l“1f“°imi°S· and W'ashington to At anta and New Orleans, one hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventy- tive cents: Provided, That no part of the appropriation made by this paragraph shall be expended unless the Postmaster-General shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest of the postal service. it For continuing necessary and special facilities on trunk lines from Kansas City, Missouri, to Newton, Kansas, twenty-Eve thousand dol- · lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no part g;’gg§gé of Pmmw of this appropriation shall be expended unless the Postmaster-General m-ceuemi. t, shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest _ '"P D of the postal service. ’ · r ·. For miscellaneous items, including railway guides, city directories, MiS"°““¤°°“S· and other books and periodicals necessary in connection with mail transportation, one thousand dollars. l ‘ _ _ For transportation of foreign mails, two million two hundred and g§;§‘§,‘g "g§gf;nmp forty-eight thousand dollars, including additional compensation to the Company- Oceanic Steamshi Company for transporting the mails by its Steamers sailingfrom San grancisco to New Zealand and New South Wales by. way of Honolulu, all mails made up in the United States destined for the Hawaiian Islands, the Australian colonies, New Caledonia, and the islands in the Pacific Ocean, eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That _§"m,§"fi”If,§; mm, the sum paid the said Oceanic Steamship Com any shall not exceed gpl-1%S§.r-8$£2é&m two· dollars er mile, as authorized by Act of leiarch third, eighteen er °" °”' hundred and) ninety-one, entitled "An Act to provide for ocean mail