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 F IFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 3546. 1906. 473 duty to impose and collect reasonable fines for delay, when such delay is not caused by unavoidable accidents or conditions. For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes, Freisht on suppliesnewspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except stage stamps, two hundred an fifty thousand dollars. And the gdstmaster-General shall f ifigthdjewgil .<>i require, when in freightable lots and whenever practicable, the with- »i€ignihg°s(éHs¤¤l»iiIn8 drawal from the mailis of all postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other ` supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, in the respective weighing divisions of the country immediately preceding the weighing period in said divisions, and such postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, shall be transmitted by either freight or ex ress. And the Postmaster-General shall require a record from Jul first 0,R:gc°gg({?c}jL°S¤;‘;g to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six, of all seconclclass distribution and one mail matter received for free distribution, and also at the one cent a °°“t°p°`"°° m’m°" pound rate, so as to show the weights in pounds, respectively by classes, of daily newspapers, weekly and other than daily newspapers, magazines, scientitic periodicals, educational periodicals, religious riodi— cals, trade—journal periodicals, agricultural periodicals, miscellsneous periodicals, and sample copies of said newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, and make report to Congress of sugh information by Feb- R°l’°" ‘° °°“"°““· ruary iirst, nineteen hundred and seven, together with an estimate of the average length of haul of said respective classes above named. And the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to cover the expense of compiling such information. The chief officer of each of the several Executive Departments, indo- milillgrdseiii Kms? pendent bureaus, and Government establishments, having headquarters Q{!£',:{;'ggu°*°·· i¤ 1n \Vashingt0n, District of Columbia, shall maintain from July first to' December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six, a record of all mail entered at Washington by each under the penalty privilege during said period, so as to show the character and quantity of said mail by the several classes of mail as defined b law, and report to Congress “°P°’*'° °°“¤'°”- not later than Februar first, nineteen hundred and seven. the number of pieces and weight by the said several classes of mail and the amount of postage which would have been required for each of said pespective classes calculated at the regular postage rates as provided aw. yFor railway post-ollice car service, five million eight hundred and i,.£°°°'°m°° °'" ""' seventy-tive thousand dollars. _ RAILWAY MAIL smnviomz One general superintendent, at four thou- k.£“""“" ""“" ""` sand dollars; one assistant general superintendent, at three thousand m‘,§_;*e';]$';{,l,e§{{,¥{*;{,‘j,‘j five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, olhce of general superintendent, ents. ciérks, etc. at two thousand dollars; one assistant chief clerk, office of eneral superintendent, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; eleven xhvision superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; eleven assistant division superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; five assistant superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; nineteen assistant superintendents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one hundred and twenty-five chief clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two hundred and fifty-nine clerks, class six, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; one thousand ‘ two hundred and fifty clerks, class live, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; five hundred and twenty-eight clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; one thousand eight hundred and fifty clerks, class four, at not exceeding