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 1334 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 241. 1911. W•¢°¤¤°"*°°· For regulation, screen, or other wa on service, one million eight hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars. mumgaew. For mail b, metal for mail-bag attachments, cord fasteners, label cases, anadgsmaterial necessary for manufacture and repairing of . equi ment, and for incidental expenses Ipertaming thereto, two amt. hund)red and eight —five thousand dollars: rovaled, hat out of this aiiiilriildiniiriiiagg; a propriation the Tostmaster General is authorized to use so much ¤°¤¤*°¤¤· ol) the sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture_in the mail-b repair sho of such small quantities of distinctive equipment as maggbe required) by other executive departments, and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions, and for such special equipment for testing and for other purposes in connection with the re uction in the weight of mail . equipment. _ _ _ mil? **1*** ¤h°P°~ For compensation to labor employed in the ma1l—bag repair shotpr at ` Washington, District of Columbia, and Chicago, Illmors, one him ed and ten thousand dollars. _ _ ‘ c§",,,§';§”'°°t ”h°p’ For rent, light, fuel, electric power, and mcidental expenses pertaining to the maintenance of a subworkshop for the repair of mail equipment at Chicago, Illinois, three thousand dollars. _ ¤°°¤· *°Y°· °‘°· For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for manufacturing and repairing same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also for making in the marl—lock repair shop such metal attachments as may be needed for use m the manufacture and repair of mail equipment, twelve thousand dollars. rmx rem: ¤h¤1>. For compensation to labor employed in the mail-lock repair shocp at ]‘°°" Washington, District of Columbia, thirty-six thousand five hun red dollars. R¤i1rw1¤>¤w¤· For inland transportation b railroad routes, fifty million ninety- two thousand two undred dollars, of which the um of one million one hundred and twenty-one thousand two hundred dollars shall be mma. immediately available: Provided, That out of the appropriation for ,,§§,*},?f"°'°'°°“‘*’“` inland mail transportation the Postmaster General is authorized hereafter to pay rental if necessary in Washington, District of Columbia, and compensation to tabulators and clerks employed in connection with the weighings for assistance in completing computations, in connection with the expenses of taking the weights of mails on railsamaenm mall road routes, as provided by law: Provided, That the President shall ’”§‘,§,’,‘,f,‘Q,,,,,,,(,,, ,,,,,,,.,,, appoint three competent and impartial ersons, one of whom may bo iéi g;>§::g;{:§·¤*¤·· a judicial or other officer of the U nitedp States and the other two of Poa¢,p.1458. whom shall hold no office, and no one of whom shall be connected with the Post Office De artment or have any interest in any business directly or indirectly afigcted by the ° ublishing of magazines or newspapers usinfg the mails of the United gtates, to examine the reports of the Post O ce Department and any of its officers, agents, or employ- ees, and the existing evidence taken in respect to the cost to the Government of the trans ortation and handling of all classes of second—class mail matter wlhich may be submitted to them, and such evidence as may be presented to them by ersons having an interest in the rates to be fixed for second-class mailp matter, to make a finding of what the cost of transporting and handling different classes of such second-class mail matter is to the Government and what in their judgment should be the rate for the different classes of second·class postal matter, in order to meet and reimburse the Government for the expense to which it is put in the transportation and handling of such matter, and on or before December first, nineteen hundred and eleven, _ to make report of their proceedings and Endings to the President for '*P°"*°* transmission to Cougrese: Provided, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of such commission,