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 424 S;IXTY·FOURTH CONGRESS Snsst I. Ch. 261. 1916. 1>symsn_¤»¤¤¤» agus; mgm; And guided urther, That the Postmaster General i$awm¤l»i¤1i:if5é£'ff if authorized and dirlibted tof y, out of the appropriations already made and still available andaunexpended for rural free-dehvery service for the Escal year ending June thirtieth, mneteen hundred and fifteen, to all letter carriers in the Rural Free Dehvery Service during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, their executors or administrators, the difference between what they received for their said services and the amount that would have been paid to them in accordance with the proviso contamed in v°l’38’P'm7' int resolution makinalgppro `ations for the service of the Post Silico Department for iisealm ear ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, approved lslarch fourth, nineteen hundred and ,,,§° *’°’°°“°°'“‘°”’ fifteen: Promdcd, That no part of the money tppid under this provision shall be paid to any agent or attorney, ectly or_mdu:ectly, Pmnum for any alleged services in connection with this appropriation. _ Erpmmmis in ex- The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to conduct experi- $,°§i""‘°'f“°"°'°d` ments in three or more communities for the purpose of dete the most practical means of extending the operations of the pa post in the direction of promotingwthe marketing of farm products and furthering direct transactions tween producers and consumers. ‘“'“·‘ "°‘ Such invesf ationwill further include the consideration of the effects on the Ruriil Free Delivery Service such extension of the Parcel Post ggstem willhhaveih and report of ponclusions reaclied shall be made tg ngress. or e puxépose o puxs suc ex riments an invesgigations the sum o $tl£;s00Xc is her‘iili§ appropriailiced, to be paid , as other a riations in t. , Vm‘°d°I"°"" ger eliv§ry service in towns and villages having post o ces 0 e secon or, $250,000. ""“°'» °*°· f Fic; %ravelbanA<;SmisceHnI3neous expeppees inalthe Postal Service, office _ _ o t ourt istant ostmaster ner , $1,000. .,.,·g’SQ,’,?yP"tg*§;’,‘g,{'§,'g' That if the revenues of the _Post Office Department shall be insuffiriciencics. cient to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency of the revenue of said detgartment is hereby appropriated,_to be paid out of any money in e Treasury not otherwise gpprogriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the ost Hice Department for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the sum needs may be advanced to the Smnddmmu Post Office Department upon reguisition of the Postmaster General. nsmeuen on site- $1=:o. 2. That so much of section one of the "Act makinglapprogm? "°‘¤*“· ’°‘ pnationsfor the service of the Post Office Department for e fiscal v0¤.:w,p. sev. year ending June tlnrtieth, mneteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposesjf approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, which provides that the Post Office Department shall _n¤m_»· antenna not extend or enlarge its gresentapohcy of sendiniglr-\second—class matter “°'* '°*"’**°"'*· by freight trains, is here y repe ed, ut no pub `cation shall be sent , P _ by freight if such method of translportation results in unfair discrimistiiiwsiéxea or mm- nation: Prmnded, That whenevert e owner of anypublicationrequired P‘¤’¤*¤*°D°P°”m°¤°· by_ an order of the Post_ Office_Department to be transmitted by freight beheves that he is unfairly discriminated against, he ma app y to the Post Office Department for an opportunity to be heardyi _ at upon_ such apphcation being duly filed in writing, the owner of H°¤¤¤g*»°*°· such publication s all have opportunity for a full and fair hearing before said department, and dpending final determination no change shall be made in the metho of transportation of such publication as ordered by the department. The testimony in any such hearing A Hr madwm or proceedings shell be reduced to writing and filed  the Post Office we com 0, Department prior to enterinv an order upon such heamng That upon Appear, n. c. such hearing if the Post_OH§ice Department decides a versely to the contention of the publisher, such A-publisher shell have the right, within the period o twenty days ter the date of the order of the Post Office Department made upon such hearing, to appeal to the