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 1450 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHs. 478, 479 . 1929 . Awards to lowest re- hereby authorized to award such contracts to the bidders that he sponsible bidders. shall find to be the lowest responsible bidders that can satisfactorily perform the service required to the best advantage of the Go ver n- o ' . ment : Provided That the rate to be aid for such service for the Rate s specified. , p load of mails provided by the Postmaster Genera l to be carried in a plane shall not in any case exceed $2 per mile each way. plus not exceeding $1 per pound per thousand miles, or pro rata thereof for gre ater or less mileage, for any mails requ ired to be carried in the same plane in excess of the specified load, and that, at the request of the Postmaster General, domestic mail shall be conveyed without additional charge on that part of the route in the United Arra ngements wi th States to the border of the United States and to intermediate points air-mail concessionaires Provided further, That the Postmaster General may make arrange- in fore ign countries. m ents wit h co nces sion aire s op erat ing air- mail service in foreign co untries for tran sportati on by th eir serv ice of m ails of the Unit ed States and its possessions or Territories : And provided further, Decisio n of P•stmas ' T ter General final. hat in the award and interpretation of the contracts herein author- ized the decision of the Postmaster General shall be final and not subject to review by any officer or tribunal of the United States Rules, etc ., to be except by the President and the Federal courts. issued. SEC. 2. The Postmaster General shall make and issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Con trac ts u nder for - a SEC. 3. All contracts heretofore made by the Postmaster General mer Act, may be amended, under section 1 of the Act of March 8, 1928, entitled 'An Act to grant authorit y to the Postmaster General to enter int o contracts for the transportation of mails by air to foreign countries and insular possessions of the United States for periods of not mo re than ten years and to p ay for such service at fixed rates per p ound or per mile, and fo r other purposes ,' as ori ginally enacted, may be amended Provision for paces- mails, and transporta- under agreement of the parties thereto so as to provide for the trans- tion not covered by portation of excess mails and for transportation not covered by the existing contracts. existing contract of mails of the United States and its possessions Limitation, or Territories or of foreign countries, at not exceeding the contract rate per mil e and no t exceed ing the r ates per pound p rovided in sec- tion 1 hereof for excess mails ." Approved, March 2, 1929 . March 2, 1929 . [H. R. 16612.] CHAP. 479.-An Act Granting the consent of Congress for the construction [Public, No . 905.] o f dam or dams in Neches River, Texas . Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the Neches River. United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the consent Construction of dam or dams across, above of Congress is hereby granted to the Neches Canal Company, Neches Beau mont, by desig- nated parties, author- Water Company, Beaumont Irrigating g Com p an y, the cit y of Beau- ized. mont, Texas, or the city of Port Arthur, Texas, or any one or more of them, to construct a dam or dams across the Neches River, at points suitable to the interests of navigation, above the city of Provisos . Beaumont Texas : Provided, That the work on such dam or dams App ro val of plans 7 ~ regnirea l shall not be c ommenced until t he plans therefo r have b een file d with and approved by the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers not authorized . power, of the United States Army : And provided further, That this Act shall not be construed to authorize the use of such dam to develop water power or generate hydroelectric energy. Amendmen t. SEC. 2 . That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expres sly rese rved. Approved, March 2, 1929.

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