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 ` \· \ * U §J668 _ _ 5 urns 89.-——~T11E P railway wars, for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in San Francisco Bay" to the piers and for transferring theforeign mail from incoming stenmships at Honolulu ° from quarantine to the peers; also for transferring the meas from steamshins performing service under contract for transporting United Statw malls (Mar. 2,.1907, c. _2513_, 344 Stat. 1214} Mar. 4, 1913, c. 113, 37 Stat. 799; Jan. 2, 1925, c. 87, Tit1eII,·l3Stat.?&)~, ° ~   · l 668. Sea post &;·ks; disability allowanee; eam@tion for ‘* desth.——Acting clerks may he employed in place of clerks or substitutes injured while on duty "who shall be granted lmve of ahsenee with full pay during the perlou of dimbility, but not exceeding one year, _ then as the rate- of I 50 per centmn of the clerks annual salary furthe period of disability exceeding- one year but not exceeding twelve Eonths additional, and the Bostl @ter General may pay the suxnof $2,000, which shall _'be.exempt froh paymentof debts of the deceased,-to_¥¥¤§ @81 represmtative of any sea postclcrlr or. substitute sw post clerk who, wl! be killed while  duty, or who, bang injured? while on duty, shall die within one year thereafsa as the result of such injury, · (`l[a1•.·4, 1913} e. 143, 37 Stat. 799L) » ” $@9.  of   hail through tli‘e‘_United" Ststesé-—'1‘he· Pos&tera General may, by and with the advice ssqmlgonssst of   President, ‘ xuake any arrangements which `    just and expedient for   the maiIs*of Canada, or any other country adjoining the United States, to he transported over the territory of the United States from one pdnt in such country to any other point in the same, at the ex— penw of the country to which the mail belongs, upon obtaining a like privilxe. for the €i’&`Z'l`IT—‘{l0~fZ®·_i§(TY1` ui `ihe   States ‘ mail throughthe country. to which `the· fprivllege is- granted ;·' but such privilege may at any tixnebe annulled by the President _ or Congress fro1nYand· after one month succeeding the day on which-   of the act of the President or Congressyis givento the-chief executive or head of the post oi‘Bce department »ef the country whose privilege is to be annulled. (R.l_S. § 4012.) ` 676, Paymmt of postage by m¤suIs.——'1‘he P08tIIl&StB1‘h·G€H· eral or the Secretary of State is hereby authorized_to`empovver the censuls of the United- States to pay the foreign postage on such letters destined for the United States as `may_ be detained at the  of foreign countries for the nonpayment of postage, which postage-shall be by the consul marked as paid by ’ him, and the amount thereof shall be collected in the United States as other postage, on the. gdelivery · of the letters, and repaid to said consul; or credited Qu, his account at the Smte Deparmeut. (B. S. .§ 4014.) ’ ‘  { 671.`Pmtnge. en letters  in fordgxfvesscl.-The Post- ` master - General, under the direction of the President of thef .. United States, is authorized and- empowered to charge upon, and eelleet from,-. all letters and other mallable matter uu-sled W 0i' from shy port of the United. States, in any foreign packet shin or other vessel, the same- rate or rates of charge for American postage; which the government to which such foreign packet or other vessel belongs imposes upon letters and other mailable matter conveyed to or such foreign country ln· Amerimn wckets or other vessels as theipostage of such government, and at any ume to revoke the mma; and all sustenhouse 0mC8l‘S and other United Stat¤` agents designated. or appointed for that purpose shall enforce or· carry into ehect the foregoing provision, and aid or assist `ln the collection of such postage, and to that end it shall be lawful for such omcers and agents, on suspiclon of fraud, to open and examine, in the presence of two or more respectable permns, being citizens of the 4'Jnlted States, any mcksge or packages suppowd ‘ to contain, mailable matter found on board such packets or other vessels or elsewhere, and to prevent, if ‘ necessary, such packets ·or` other vessels from entering, breaking bulk, or making clearance until such letters ·m· other mallable matter

o;smL» sazzvzca 1276 are duly delivered into the United States post officer (R. S._` I § ,4015.). . ‘ · . 4 I 872. Rédeat agents on Isthmus of Panama, etc.—The Postmasta General may estahliah resident mail agencies? at the ports of Panama and, Colon, in the Republic` of ,.Panama; Havana, at Cuba; afSalnt Thomas, and atauch other foreign port; at which United [states mail-ateamera touch to land and received mails, a may, in his jndgiaent, promote the emcieney of the Foreign Mail Service; and may pay the agents em-- Iployed byihim at such 'ports, ont_ of the appropriation for transportation of the mail, a ireaéonable compensation for _the_ir services, and -the.necessary expenses for omce rent, clerk. hire, omce furniture,. arid other iacidentals, to he allowed him. at wch--0f such agencies. (R. S. { 4021.) · » _ ' ' ‘_ 673. Agents ouvmsil iteamera to f•reig¤ ports.——The Postmaster General may appoint an agent in charge of the mail onboard of each of the "mail steamers on the pqutes between San Franciaco, Japan; and China`; between San Fraaciéco and ‘ Honolnlu, in the Havvalian I$lands,_and between New York and ‘ Rio Janeiro,“wl1o shall be allowed, out of the appropriation for t'z·anaporta_tio¤h of the mai’l,··a salary of $2,000 a_ year. (R. S- - _ .,4. oh-·-.,.", _. 674.- Postal jagenciea in` Chim and .[apan.—e·The Postnmster Gmeral may establish, lné connection with "the mall atwmalxip servieeto Japan and .cm¤a,‘·¤ géneral postal ageaey af l-Sl1anghal,__in. China, or at Yokohama,·_in Japan, with auch l branch agencies at_any other porta fin -China·and Japan as ’ shall deem necessary- for the prompt and. ‘ emcleht management of the postal Service in those countries; and he may my fthe postal agents employed thereat a reasonable c0nipensa·~ d tion-. for their services, in addition to the necessary,_expens¢~s for rent, furniture, clerk hire, and incidental expenses. _(R. S. · Chapter 1`8.—-·-PQST-OFFICE INSPEQTOBS. `691. Expenses of ·chlef-of post-o¤ce_ inspectors. { _692. Po¤t·o1llce inspectors; appointment, . ; 693.·_Same·; grades and salaries-; promotions. 694. Same;  vvhlle.on· omclal business away from homes. - 695. Salary and per diem- of inspector detailed to (rcedeliver; system. 696._Wl1en ·to give bond. .- • ~ _ _ _ 697, Asslstant Ponmnters General as lhnpectorsl ‘ 698. Clerks at division headquarters; grades; promotions; transfer of -_ clerks or carrlerszlni Clty Delivery Service to poaltloa of clerks · - at division headquarters. · 699.·8ame; eubstltutes. _ · 700, Searches authorized. · - 701.’Bed1ictl0a ‘ln salary; restoration to former grade or •cprance— · · ment to immediate grade. -· ‘ 702, Promotion regardless of increase ofpay. ._, 708L Promouoa ‘ot employee whose promotion withheld. Section 691. of chief of paabéee inspectors.-- The chiet ot post-omce inspectors · shall be paid his actual " expenses while traveling on, the Jrusluem of the department. (mr. 1,’1881,‘c.96, 5 1, 21`Stat. 314;) { [ t _ _ 692. Post·o&ce' inspectors; appoi¤tment.——Tl}e_\ Postmaster General may employ such number - of post-omee inspectors as the good of the service and the safety of the mall may require; and the appointment of additional inspectors ahall be ’made upon certification of the Civil Service Commission. (R. S. Q 4017; June 11,,18w, e. 206, $1, 21 Stat. 177; June 19, 1922, ‘c. 227, § 1, 42 Stat. 655; Jan. 22, 1925, c. 87, Title II, 43 Stat. 784.) 693. Same; grades and salaries; promotion•.—Post-otllce im spectors ahall he divided into aix grades, as follows: Grade 1- sa1ary,.$2,800; grade 2—-salary, $3,000; grade?}-e-salary, $3,%; grade 4-esalary, $3,500; grade 5—aalary, `$.800; grade 6- salary, $4,000, and there shall he dtteen inspectors in charge at $4,500. _In the. readjustment of grades for inspectors to gonform to the grades? herein provided, juspectors; in grades 1 and 2 on December  1924, shall be lncludedjn grade 1; ~.