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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CH. 126. 1928. 189 may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the pl Robbing g postal em . arrest and conviction of any person on the charge of robbing a post- master or any employee of a post office of money or property of the United States : Provided further, That of the amount herein appro- Securing in forma- priated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. OF FICE OF THE FIR ST ASSISTANT PO STMA STER GE NERA L First Assistan t Post- master General. For compensation to postmasters, $52,000,000. Postm aste rs. For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second class teAssistant postmas- post offices, $7,250,000. For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class clews, etc., first and compensation sec ond class offi cers, post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, and printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers, $171,500,000. For compensation to watchmen messengers laborers and substi- r, , etc . messen- 7 7 ) g ets tutes, $8,750,000 . For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations Contract tRtion f clerks . $1 ,800,000 . For separating mails at third and fourth class post offices, $515,000 . separating mails . For unusual conditions at post offices, $125,000 . Unusual conditions . For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical o fCer ks, trial class services, $9,000,000 . For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post offices, Rent, light, and fuel . $18,250,000 . For misce llaneo us ite ms nec essary and i ncident al to the op eratio n Miscellaneous, first y and seco ., d Class offices . and protection of post offices of the first and second classes and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $1,970,000. For village delivery service in towns and villages having post Village delivery. of fices of the secon d or t hird c lass, and in commun ities adjace nt to cities having city delivery, $1,600,000. For Detroit River postal service, $18,000. Detroit River. For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery car Car fare and bicycles. f are, $1,375,00 0. Citydeliverycarriers. For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $126,000,000. Special delivery fees . For fees to special-delivery messengers, $8,250,000. For the transmission of mail b pneumatic tubes or other similar Pneumatic tubes . y New Y ork and devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn Brooklyn. of the city of New York, including power, labor, and all other op eratin g expe nses, $530,0 00. For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not Bo ta n, mass. including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmis- sion of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000 : Provided, Contrac ts. That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 35 VPl .4 32, p . 114; Vol. 1902, and May 27, 1908, rel ating to the t ransm issi on of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles Vehic le al lowa nce f or f n > > delivery, c ollection, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and etc° garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection service, $19,000,000 : Provisos . P rovid ed, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement of Allotmentforg arages . this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned automobiles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years : Provided further, That ton , Garage washing- this appropriation is available for the maintenance of the Govern- ment-owned post-office garage at Washington, District of Columbia,

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