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 72d CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 430 . JULY 5,1932. FIELD SERvICE, POST Or'r'icn DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF rats POSTMASTER GENE RAL Field service. Postmaster General. 599 For gas, electric power, and light, and the repair of machinery, b d pmant shops United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $5,500. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to a cash reward cash rewards to em- for pay inventions for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an im- improving the service. provement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Post al Servi ce submi tted by one or m ore emplo yees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficient , and for that purpose the sum of $1,500 is hereby appropriate : Pro vid ed, That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with Provisos. this Act, shall be in addition t o their usual co mpensation : Provided p yda ition al to reg ular further, That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act A mounts limit ed. shall not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or suggestion : Provided further, That no employee shall be paid a ernmenment for Gov. reward under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement, to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, sug- gestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by A ppropr iatio n him his heirs, or assigns : Provided further, That this appropriation r estr icted shah be available for no other purpose. For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and menipetent of equip- sup pl ies for the P ost Office Department and Postal Ser vi ce by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental ex- penses, $425,000. For tr avel and miscell aneous expenses in the Postal Se rvice, office Travel, etc • of the Postmaster General, $1,000. To enable t he Postm aster Ge neral to pay cla ims for damages, oc- Damage claims. curring during the fiscal year 1933 or in prior fiscal years, to persons u. s.' c.psao. or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 392), $18,000. OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR : For salaries o f fifteen inspec tors in Inspectors, charge of divisions, at $4,500 each ; and five hundred and twenty- five inspectors, $1,981,950 ; i n a ll, $2 ,0 49, 450. Fo r travel ing expe nses of inspecto rs, insp ectors i n charge, the in T~;g~ chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing steno - graphic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, and for tests, exhibits documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investiga- tions, $510,000 : Provided, Th at not exceeding $26,440 of this sum Allotment nt for chemi- shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other cal investigations. depart ments an d indepe ndent es tablishm ents for chemica l and ot her investigations. For necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, Miscellaneous. $14 ,000 . Clerks at division For compensation of one hundred and thirty clerks at division headquarters. headquarters, $328,000. Rewards for detect, For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction ing law violations. of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $45,000 : Provided, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the Post- Provisos. DDe at ho loffen der. master General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committi ng the c rime or in resis ting law ful arre st
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