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 75TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION-CH. 180-MAY 14, 1937 Power-boat service : For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,200,000 . Railroad transportation and mail messenger service : For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $107,900,000 : Provided, That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service : Provided further, That there may be expended from this appropriation for clerical and other assistance in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $60,922 to carry out the provisions of section 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 (U . S . C ., title 39, sec . 562) (the space basis Act), and not exceeding the sum of $33,050 to carry out the provisions of sec- tion 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 826) (cost ascertainment). Railway Mail Service : For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of di visi on s uperi nten dent s, ra ilwa y po stal cler ks, subst itut e ra ilway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $56,950,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance : For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $3,450,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses : For actual and neces- sary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superin- tendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Rail- way Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department a nd away from their several designated headquarters, $60,000. Railway Mail Ser vice 2 miscellaneous expenses : For rent, light, h eat, fuel, te legr aph, misc ella neous and off ice e xpen ses, tele phon e 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 e quip ment and misc ellan eous ite ms ne cess ary to te rmin al r ailwa y post offices, $450,000. Electric- and cable-car service : For electric- and cable-car service, $350 .000 . Foreign mail transportation : For transportation of foreign mails b y ste amship, air craft , or otherw ise, $14,2 41,36 0 : Provided, Th at n ot to exceed $9,417,360 of this sum may be exp ended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft under contracts which will not create obli- gations for the fiscal year 1939 in excess of $10,408,000 : Provided further, That the Postmaster General is authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $170,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steam- ships conveying the mails to and from the United States including the sa lary of th e Ass istant Dire ctor, Divi sion o f Int ernat ional Post al Service, with headquarters at New York City. Balances due foreign countries : For balances due foreign countries, fiscal year 1938 and prior years, $1,000,000. Contract Air Mail Service : For the inl and t rans port ation of mail by aircraft, and for personal services for examining and auditing the books, records, and accounts of air mail contractors, as author- 159 Power-boat service. Railro ad tr anspo r- tation and mail mes- senger service. Provisos. Separ ate accounting, messenger service . Services in the Dis- trict. 39 Stat. 429; 43 Stat. 1069 . 39 U.S.C. §§ 562,82& Railwa y Mai l Ser v- ice . Division superin- tendents, etc. Railway postal clerks, travel allow- ance. Railwa y Mai l Ser v- ice, traveling expen- ses. Miscellaneous ex- peases. Arms, etc ., for mail protection. Terminal offices, rent. Electric- and cable- car service. Foreign mails. Post, p. 227 . Provisos . Aircraft allowance ; restriction. Sea post service. Assistant Director, International Postal Service. Balances due foreign countries. Contract Air Mail Service.