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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. l. Ch. 3546. 1906. 477 For facing slips, plain and printed, including the furnishing of paper 1"°°*¤¤ ****1*, °*°· for the same; also or card slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature, sixty-five thousand dollars. · For rubber stamps and type, metal-bodied rubber type, dates, Figures, Rubber stamps, enc. and holders, and inking pads for rubber stamps, six thousand dollars. For the purchase or exchange of typewriting machines, envelope Miscellaneous supopening machines, computing machines, and for the purchase of copy- ph"' ing presses, numberin mac ines, and for miscellaneous articles urchased and furnished érectly to the postal service, twenty-five thousand dollars. . For pay of letter carriers and clerks in charge of substations of rural $1 delivery. deliver service, twenty-eight million two hundred thousand dollars: °"‘ °°°' Pr0uuld`, That not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be used for compensation of clerks in charge B°m°°°° °1°"°°' of substations. Provided further, That rural letter carriers after twelve months’ Annumesve. service be allowed annual leave, with pay, not to exceed fifteen days; the substitutes for carriers on vacation to be paid during said service at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum: And provided further Powerbostn. That in the discretion of the Postmaster-General the pay of any rural carrier on a water route who furnishes his own power boat and is emplo ed during the summer months, may be fixed at an amount not g seven hundred and twenty dollars in any one calendar year. Supplies for the rural-delivery service, including collection boxes, Suppliesfurniture, satchels, badges, straps, freight, king and cartage charges, repairing satchels, repairing, erecting, andafminting collection boxes, map supplies, and for the making of maps, and tolls and ferry charges in the rurabdelivery service, one hundred and nfty thousan dollars. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of '¤‘¤*¤1» ew- ‘ therlépuith Assistant Postmaster-General, pine thousand dollars. t ereafter no article, kage, or other matter, except tage P§¤*l¤¥“P¤*§ - stamps, stamped envelopes,ph;ws per wraplpers, postal cards)? and mxlilxiiiihageiio gsm internal-revenue stamps, shall be agnitted to the mai under a penalty privilege, unless such article, package, or other matter, except ppstage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal car, and internal—revenue stamps would be entitled to admission to the mails under laws requiring payment of stage. That hereafter it shall be unlawliil for any person entitled under the fgg:¤,bwmm,,w“ law to the use of a frank to lend said frank or permit its use by any unlawful. committee, organization, or association, or permit its use by any person for the benefit or use of any committee, organization, or association: Prmnkfed, That this rovision shall not apply to any committee com- {ymvggms 0, cm posed of Members ofp Congress. Furman excepted. That there shall be appointed a joint commission of Congress, cou- Sgaeud-em ¤¤¤¤ sisting of three Senators, to be appointed by the President of the mjoinhommmisu tn Senate, and three Members of the House of Representatives, to be f,Qf°*’*"‘°°““"’°P°" appointed by the Speaker of the House, whose duty it shall be to investigate, consider, and report, by bill or otherwise, to Congress its findings and recommendations reglarding the second class of mail matter. The said joint commission s all have power to employ clerks and P<>wer¤.ewstenographers, administer oaths, send for persons and papers, and do all things necessary for the carrying out o its objects. or the pay- Appreprinrieu fer ment of such actual and necessary expenses as may be incurred by the °"°"°°` said joint commission in traveling an for the rental of quarters, printing, and other miscellaneous expenses of the joint commission the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid out on the order 0f1g1I: chairman of the joint pommissipp. f h Hi M I ks _ d t the appropriations erein m e or the officers, c er, an Ngpe eptteper persons emplgygedlin the postal service shall not be available for the i'=€s$”;iZE¤s°°°p°°P