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 POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT—POSTAL SERVICE

(Out of the postal revenues)

For city delivery carriers, $175.87.

For clerks, first and second class post offices, $130.22.

For compensation to postmasters, $74.61.

For indemnities, domestic mail, $2,703.28.

For indemnities, international mail, $142.07.

For labor-saving devices, $31.

For mail messenger service, $6.58.

For personal or property damage claims, $601.

For railroad transportation, $202.59.

For rent, light, and fuel, $4,637.45.

For temporary clerk hire, $117.02.

For temporary city delivery carriers, $83.49.

For village delivery service, $71.42.

Total, audited claims, section 3, $293,847.22, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certificates of settlement of the General Accounting Office.

. This Act hereafter may be referred to as the "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926."

Approved, July 3, 1926.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,. That the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by diplomatic representatives of the United States, and by such consul generals, consuls, or vice consuls when in charge, as the Secretary of State may designate, and by the chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States, and no other person shall grant, issue, or verify such passports.

. That the validity of a passport or visa shall be limited to a period of two years: Provided, That the Secretary of State may limit the validity of a passport or visa to a shorter period and that no immigration visa shall be issued for a longer period than that Immigration specified in the Immigration Act of 1924 or amendments thereto: And provided further, That a passport may be renewed without any additional charge under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of State, and at his discretion to bona fide teachers, but the final date of expiration shall not be more than four years from the original date of issue.

. That whenever a fee is erroneously charged and paid for the issue of a passport to a person who is exempted from the payment of such a fee by section 1 of "An Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921," approved June 4, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 750), the Department of State is hereby authorized to refund to the person who paid such fee the amount thereof, and the money for that purpose is hereby authorized to be appropriated.

. That section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the Act of June 14, 1902 (Thirty-second