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 696 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. C$. 675. 1928 . Mail me ssen gers. MAI L ME SSE NGER S Transportation, etc., of, on contract vessels. SEC. 41 3 . U pon each vess el employed i n ocean mail s ervice under a contract made under this title, the Postmaster General shall be entitled to have transported such mail messengers as he may require, for w hom shall be provided subsi stence, suita ble sta terooms, and working quarters, all free of charge. Amendments and re- peals. Vol. 41, p. 998, amend- ed. U.S. Code, p.1541 . Mails to be shipped on American vessels. Contr act assign - ments, etc ., forbidden. No pa ym ent on as- signed contracts. Not applic able to con tract s un der this Act. Ante, p. 693. Allowance of former rates repealed. Vol. 41, p. 991, amend- ed. U.S. Code, p. 1538. Ocean ma il service Act of 1891, repealed. Vol. 26, pp. 830-832, repealed. U.S. Code, pp.1274, 1275. Contracts f or carry- mails to Great Britain, repealed. Vol.39,p.1066,re- pea led. U.S. Code, p. 1275. Contract transporta- tion. R. S.see. 4009, p. 774 amend ed. Vol. 44, p. 9 00, amended. Com pensa tion not lim ite d to specified contracts. R. S.see. 4007, p. 774. Vol. 41, r. 998 . U.S. Code, pp. 1274, 1541 . .4nte, p. 693. Prior contr acts con- tinued . AMEN DMEN TS AND REP EALS SEC. 4 14 . (a) Section 24 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 [U. S. C ., Title 46, « 880], is amended to read as follows " SEC . 24 . That all mails of the United States shipped or carried on vessels shall, if practicable, be shipped or carried on American- built vessels documented under the laws of the United States . No contract hereafter made with the Postmaster General for carrying mails on vessels so built and documented shall be assigned or sublet, and no mails covered by such contract shall be carried on any vessel not so built and documented . No money shall be paid out of the Treasury of the United States on or in relation to any such contract for carrying mails on vessels so built and documented when such contract has been assigned or sublet or when mails covered by such contract are in violation of the terms thereof carried on any vessel not so built and documented . This section shall not be appli- cable in the case of contracts made under Title IV of the Merchant Marine Act, 1928 ." (b) Section 7 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 [U . S. C., Title 46, « 866], is amended by striking out so much thereof as reads as follows : "The Postmaster General is authorized, notwithstanding the Act entitled `An Act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote commerce,' ap- . proved March 3, 1891, to contract for the carrying of the mails over such lines at such price as may be agreed upon by the board and the Postmaster General ." (c) The Act entitled "An Act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote com- merce," approved March 3, 1891 [U. S. C ., Title 39, «« 657-665], is repealed. (d) So much of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1918, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1917, as provides for contracts for the carrying of mails betw een th e United States and Great Britain [U. S. C ., Title 39, « 666 ], is repealed. (e) Subdi vision (b) of section 4009 of the Revise d Statutes as amended [44 Statutes at Large, pt. 2, 900], is amended to read as follows "(b) The provisions of subdivision (a) of this section shall not limit the compensation for transport ation of mail which the Pos t- master Ge neral may pay under contrac ts entered in to in accordan ce with the provisions of section 4007 of the Revised Statutes [U . S . C ., Title 39, « 652], section 24 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 [U . S . C ., Title 46, « 880], or Title IV of the Merchant Marine Act, 1928 ." (f) Any c ontract made p rior to the e nactment of t his Act shall remain in force and effect in the same manner and to the same extent as though this Act had not been enacted. Any such contract which expires on June 30, 1928, may be extended for a period of not more than one year from such date.

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