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 116 FlFTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. l. Ch. 563. 1902. Superintendent, assistant chief clerk office of General Superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, chief clerks, and railway (postal clerks, while actually travelin on business of the Department an away from their several designated. headquarters. twenty-eight thousand dollars. ¥*¤¤¤U•¤¤°¤¤ °¤· For rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneous omce expenses, Nm` schedules of mail trains, telephone service, typewriting machines, and . badges for railwa postal clerks, fifty thousand dollars. m’°f,,,‘}}§,‘{}jef,’{';l“““* For per diem allhwance of assistant superintendents, thirty thousand gow. dollars: Provided, That assistant suiperinteudents may receive a per ‘m°w°°°°' diem allowance in lieu of actual an necessary traveling expenses at the rate of four dollars dper day while actually traveling on business of the Department an away from their several designated headquarters. In all, for Railway Mail Service, eleven million two hundred and eighty-two thousand five hundred and forty dollars. And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall be so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum. wm•”d °°l*'° For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, four mm.hundred and fifty ousand dollars: Provided, That the rate of comm" ’°' '“°°‘ pensation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to companies performing said service. aygs-l *°gQ**}°°¤·M_ For necessa and special facilities on trunk lines from Washington mm ahdt New or- to Atlanta anldyNew rleans, one hundred and forty-two thousand lupdvm. seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents: Pro- °°¤°“°°¤· ‘ vided, That no rt of the appropriation made b this paragraph shall be expended unldss the Postmaster·General shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest of the postal service. m¤k¤=:&¤**r ¤¤¤¤- For continuing necemary and special facilities on trunk lines from ' Kansas City, Missouri, to Newton, Kansas, twenty-tive thousand dolg’0_'f*;gg°¤_ lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no part · 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 and other books and periodicals necessary in connection with mail transportation, one thousand dollars. . f,‘jj;§g£¤,*gj5§, For transportation of foreign mails, two million five hundred and ` eighgseven thousand dollars, including additional compensation to the ceanic Steamship Company for transporting the mails by its steamers sailing from San Francisco to Tahiti; all mails made up in the United States destined for the island of Tahiti, for2·—five thousand gsgggm dollars: Provided, That the sum paid the said Oceanic `teamship Comvoi. 26. pim. ny shall not exceed one dollar (per mile, as authorized by Act of March third, eighteen hundred an ninety-one, entitled "An Act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign 2,,,*;;*** °" ¤*°•¤ ports, and to promote commerce:"And A£7‘O?)7-dc’d_fil7'th87', That here· ` after the Postmaster-General shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars, to cover one-half of the cost of transportation, compensation, and expense of clerks to be emplo ed in asserting and pouching mails in transit on steamships between the United States and other postal administrations eg*¤,Qfg*Yj)<;kP*j3; in the International Postal Union, and not exceeding forty thousand Ry" cny. and, Ban dollars for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in F'“"°’“°"‘ New York Bay to the several steamship and railway piers, and between the steamship piers in New York City and Jersey Lity and the stofiice and railroad stations, and for transferring the foreign mail ffbm incoming steamships in San Francisco Bay to the piers. dg*l;;,°;mQg’° *°'· For balances due foreign countries, one hundred and sixty thousand ` dollars.