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 FIFYY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1009. 1903. 1173 thirty-four thousand three hundred and one dollars. And the appoint- m{,PP°*“*'“°”°“ Hmment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall be so made during the ` fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum. - For substitutes for clerks on vacation, forty-two thousand dollars: S“b°‘““‘° °'°’k“· Provided, That the Postmaster—Geueral may allow railway postal  vmmu clerks whose duties require them to work six da s or more per week, ` fiftly-two weeks per year, an annual vacation of fifteen da s with y. or acting clerks, in (place of clerks injured while on duty, andato  cm enable the Postmaster- eneral to pay the sum of one thousand dollars or umn. to the legal representatives of any railway postal clerk who shall be killed w ile on duty or who, being in'ured while on duty, shall die . within one year thereafter as the result of such injury, seventy-five thousand dollars., _ For actual and necessary expenses of General Superintendent, T'“'°1‘““°"’°“‘°" Assistant General Superintendent, chief clerk office of General Superintendent, assistant chief clerk office of General Superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, chief clerks, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Department and awa from their several designated headquarters, twenty-one thousand dollars. For rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneous office expenses ,,°£§,'f°“““°°“'“ ‘“‘ schedules of mail trains, telephone service, typewritin g machines, and , bagges for railway postal clerks, fifty thousand dollars. _ or per diem allowance of assistant superintendents, twenty-seven m*’°;,§,§,’j§ie;$g**’“* thousand dollars: Provided, That assistant superintendents may receive gm. ` a per diem allowance in lieu of actual and necessary traveling expenses ‘m°"°°°' at the rate of four dollars per day while actually traveling on usiness of the Department and away from their several designate headquarters. For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, five S"°°l°°"‘ hundred and ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the rate of compen- mw pg, mug sation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to companies performing said service. For necessary and s ial facilities on trunk lines from Washington §°.}‘§§,§€},,f§§}f*‘§0“A, t0Atlanta and ew Orldifns, one hundred and forty-two thousand seven {gg; ¤¤¤ Nw orhundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents: Hwided, 1-mm. 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. For continuing necessarpand special facilities on trunk lines from ,,,,'§°,'{{j,‘*`*""°*°"" Kansas City, Missouri, to i ewton, Kansas, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no part (zgmon of this appropriation shall be expended unless the Postmaster—General . ° shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest of the postal service. For miscellaneous items, including railway guides, city directories, M*¤°°ll¤¤°°¤¤· and other books and periodicals necessary in connection with mail transportation, one thousand dollars. ‘ For transportation of forei n mails, two million five hundred and F°'°*¢'*'”*”* sixty-six thousand dollars, including additional compensation to the Oceanic Steamshi Company for transporting the mar s by its steamer sailing from San grancisco to Tahiti; all mai s made up in the United ‘*"“"°'*"l"“· States destined for the island of Tahiti forty-five thousand dollars: _ _ Prmn'ded, That the sum paid the said Geeanic Steamship Comlpany Q’;,"h?‘,,m_ shall not exceed one dollar r mile, as authorized by Act of arc Vol- 26. p. 832- third, eighteen hundred andpirinety-one, entitled "An Act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote commerce:” And provided further, That ereafter the Postmaster-General shall be authorized to expend such sums as S,§;:'l" °“ "“'“' may be necessary, not exceeding fifty-five thousan dollars, to cover