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 SIXTY—FOURTH `CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 261. 1916. 423 $8,675,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be §§‘:’;'g;,,,m,,d ,, expended for continuance of any) star-route service the atronage svrvcd 1>r¤¤¤¤d¤1ivof which shall be served entirely y the extension of Rural)Delivery °ry` Service, nor shall any of said sum be expended for the establishment Newroutesrestrictvdof new star—route service for a patronage which is already entirely served by Rural Delivery Service. For pay of rural carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual §8‘;‘§,,§°§;,°'Y· leave, clerks in cha e of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural ` Delivery Service, add for the incidental expenses thereof, $53,000,000. That the maximum yearly salaqy shall be paid to the rural carrier L¤k¤Wi¤=¤i¤¤¤¤¤k¤¤- on Lake Winnipesaukee, who urnishes his own equipment: Pro- Sliiibiiiriiaclerks. vided That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount hereb appropriated may he used for the compensation of clerks in char e ofy rural stations: _ And provided further, That rural mail delivery shag be extended so as E"°‘“‘°“ °' ““"°°· to serve, as nearly as practicable, the entire rural population of the United States. Hereafter all mral mail delivery routes shall be divided into two ,$§§@f*°“°"°““°‘ classes to be known as-- Standard horse-drawn vehicle routes, which shall be twenty-four H¤¤*d¤"°¤V¤h*°*°· miles in length, and Standard motor-vehicle routes, which shall be fifty miles in length, “°$°¥ '°‘**°'°· and shall only be established hereafter when a majority of the pro- P°°"'°“ '°q“"°°‘ posed patrons who are heads of families residing usp; such proposed routes shall by written petition ask the Post ce Department to establish the same. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the estab- ,,,§‘§§°' h°”°'°'"“ lishment of horse-drawn vehicle routes of less le th than the standard _ of twenty-four miles: Provided, That if, in [the discretion of the ,,,,g,h_ Postmaster General, in order to render more complete service, it should be necessary to do so the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to increase the length of routes not to exceed fifty per Pay centum above the standards herein prescribed, and in such cases the ` compensation of the carrier on such horse-drawn vehicle routes shall be increased above the maximum pay heretofore fixed b law for rural carriers at the rate of $24 per annum for each miie of said routes in excess of thirty miles, and any ma`or fraction of a mile _ shall be counted as a mile: Provided further, ll`hat carriers in rural ,,_},§_"‘°’“·°‘°··"Y°*"‘ mail-delivery service shall furnish and maintain at their own expense all necessary vehicle e uipment for prompt handling of the mail: we 0, mom M And prorvidegil-H]`ur¢her, 'llhat nothing herein shall be construed, and iwréaamwn. no order sh be issued, to prevent the use of motor vehicles on horse-drawn vehicle routes: Provided further, The Postmaster General A•1··i·¤¤¢¤ ¤<1¤i¤¤¤<=¤¢· in his discretion may require all carriers to furnish sufficient equipment to roperly handle postal business on their routes: And provvlled Smiiggom PW ‘°* P°“°h further, 'llhat the Postmaster General may, in his discretion, allow ` and pag additional compensation to rural letter carriers who are require to carry pouch mail to intermediate post offices, or_ for intersecting loop routes, in all cases where it appears that the carriage of such pouches increases the expense of the equppment required by the carrier or materially increases the amount o labor performed by him, such compensation not to exceed the sum of $12 per annum for each mile such carrier is required to carry such pouch or (ppuches. d_ t { The Postmaster General is hereby authorized and `_ ectcd to Se,}l$§,_ ’“"m°” ° Ieorganize and readjust existing rural mail delivery_serv1ce where P _ Q Ilecessa to conform to the standards herein prescribed: Provzdcd pK.'§Z;}'f;,;c., gn mw jlH*ther,r'l`hat in making a pointments of rural carriers for service on ;?§;f° ‘° ‘°"°°' °°" new routes, which ma lie created by the reorganization herein ordered, preference shag be given to carriers who were formerly employed in rural-delivery service and who were sgparated therefrom on or after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and teen by reason of any previous reorganization of the service and without charges