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 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 162. 1917. 1065 $28 385,500: Provided, That hereafter an substitute railwa ostal *"°"’°’· clerk shall, after having performed seijvice equivalent th Pthree ¤iiii=i.i¤i>i.¤imfi hundred and thirteen days be appointed railway postal clerk of grade °‘°"”‘ onlef and in computing such service credit shall be allowed for service pe ormed plnor  the approval of this Act: Provided further, That ,,}"‘{,"°‘“°“““,,d_M°*‘},$¤; ereafter w en railway postal clerks are transferred from one assign- service. ment to another because of changes in the service their salaries shall not be reduced by_ reason of such change: Provided further, That i¤P¤`ii°§|i·`§i»°i¤°if¤¤°ii¤°ii°t*s hereafter clerks assigned as clerks in charge of crews consisting of more than one clerk shall be clerks of gra es live to ten, inclusive, and maifbe promoted one grade only a ter three years’ satisfactory and fait ul service m such capacity: Provided further That railway ,,,?} f'°° postal clerks shall be credited with ull time when deadheading under orders of the department, and the appointment and assignment of   °‘°·• clerks hereunder shall be so made during the Escal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum; and, to enable the Postmaster General to reclassify the salaries of railway postal clerks and make necessargs appointments and promotions, he may exceed the number of cler in such of the grades as may be necessarplz Provided, That the number of clerks in the aggregate as herein *“'°”“°'”""°°‘ authorized be not exceeded. mwlmo For travel allowances to railway postal clerks, acting railway postal ` clerks, and substitute railway postal clerks, including substitute railway postal clerks for railway postal clerks granted leave with pay on account of sickness, $1,638,959: Provided, That the Act of u t twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thixgy-seventh §iii- VM-, {G P- W- utes, pag; five hundred and forty-eight), be amend to read as follows: " at hereafter, in addition to the salaries b law provided, the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to make travel allowances in lieu of actual expenses, at fixed rates per annum, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum annually appropriated, to railway postal clerks, acting railway postal clerks, and substitute railway postal clerks, inclu ing substitute railway postal clerks for railway postal clerks granted leave with pay on account of sickness, assigned to duty in railway post-office cars, while on duty, after ten hours from the time of beginning their initial run, under such regulations as he may prescribe, and in no case shall such an allowance exceed $1.20 per a .7} Por temporary clerk hire for emergency service, $60,000. """¤’°""°"""· For substitutes for clerks on vacation, $864,585: Provided, That the appropriation for the payment of substitutes for clerks on vacation U••¤¤¤·•¤¤¤¤¤•·¤· ma be utilized for the payment of salaries of regular clerks. Iyer actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and """'””¤•‘P°”"· assistant general sudperintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superinten ents, and chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway ostal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Oflice Ilgpartment and away from their several designated headquarters, $50,000. _ For rent, gght, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office ’“’°°“'“°"· ex nses, sch ules of mail trains, telephone service, and bagges for raggvay ostal clerks, including rental o offices for division h quarters, and) chief clerk, Railway Mail Service, in Washmgton, District of Columbia, and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for MES: ‘°' *°'¤'*¤•' the distribution of mails when the  space or such distribution can not under the Postal Laws and egulations properly be required of railroad companies without additional com nsation, and for equi ment and miscellaneous items necessary auxin incidental to terminalprailway post offices, $557,156. For per diem allowance of two assistant superintendents while  actually traveling on official business away from their home their official domicile, and their headquarters, at a rate to be fixed by the