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 74Tn CONGR ESS. SESS. I. CH. 110 . MAY 14, 1935 . 239 offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $52,500,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance : For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $3,250,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses : For actual and neces- sary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superin- ten dent, divis ion su perint enden ts, as sistan t div ision superi ntend ents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually trav- eling on business of the Post Office Department and away from the ir sev eral design ated h eadqu arters, $60, 000. Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses : For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, for the purchase or rental of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails, and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribu- tion cannot, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and misc ellaneous items necessary to terminal rail- way post offices, $575,000. Electric and cable car service : For electric and cable car service, $360,000 . Foreign mail transportation : For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise (exclusive of mail carried under contracts awar ded under the provisions of t he Merchant Marine Act of 19 28), $8,575,000 : Pr ovid ed, That not to exceed $7,000,000 of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft under contracts which will not create obligations for the fiscal year 1937 in excess of $7,000,000 : Provided further, That the Postmaster General is authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $175,000, to cover the cost to the United States for main- taining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the United States including the salary of the Assistant Director, Division of International Postal Service, with head- uarters at New York C it y : Provided fur ther, Th at not to exceed 7,500 of this sum may be available for expenses of delegates desig- nated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General to the Congress of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain to be held during the fiscal year 1936, to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for on his certificate not- withstanding the provisions of any other law. Foreign Mail Service, Merchant Marine Act : For transportation of foreign mails under contracts authorized by the Merchant Marine Act of 1928 (U . S. C., title 46, sees. 861-889 ; Supp . VII, title 46, sees . 886-891x), including the cost of advertising in connection with the a ward of con tracts auth orized by sa id Ac t, $28 ,850,0 00 : Pro vided , Th at no part of the money herein appropriated shall be paid on contract numbered 56 to the Seatrain Company. Balance s due foreign countries : For bala nces due foreign tries, fiscal year 1936 and prior years, $1,000,000. Contract Air Mail Service : For the inland transportation of mail Aircraft contract, in- land service. by aircraft, as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses Past, p .1630. thereof, including not to exceed $19,100 for supervisory officials and clerks at air- mail transfer points, and not to exceed $39,965 for per sonal ser vices in t he Di stric t of Colum bia and i ncide ntal and travel expenses, $10,700,000. Travel allowance to railway clerks. Miscellaneous. Arms for mail protec- tion. Terminal offices, rent . Electric and cable car service. Fo rei gn mails. Vol. 41, P. 998 45, p. 639. U. S. C.,p. 2067. Provisos . Aircraft allowance; r estrict ion . Sea post service. Assistant Director, I nternatio nal Posta l Service . Delegates to Postal Union . Fore ign M ail S erv- i ce, M ercha nt M arine Act. i-ol. 41, p. 988; Vol. 45, 1),689. U . S. C.,p. 2062. Proviso . Pa yme nt to Searrs_in Co mpa ny forbidden . coun- Balances due for ei gn countries.
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