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 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 44-SToREKEEPER-GAUGERs Sec. 4010. Appointment and bond. Sec. 4011. Compensation. Sec. 4012. Post of duty. Sec. 4013. Assignment. Sec. 4014. Transfer. Sec. 4015. Detail to other districts. Sec. 4016. Suspension. Sec. 4017. Daily gauging return. Sec. 4018. Engagement in other business. Sec. 4019. Leave of absence. Sec. 4020. Temporary charge of warehouses. Sec. 4021. Penalties. Sec. 4022. Rules and regulations. CHAPTER 44-STOREKEEPER-GAUGERS SEC. 4010. APPOINTMENT AND BOND. (a) REQUIREMENT.-T here shall be appointed by the Secretary such number of storekeeper-gaugers as may be necessary, who shall each take an oath faithfully to perform his duties, and shall give bond, with one or more sureties, satisfactory to the Commissioner, for the faithful discharge of the duties assigned to him by law or regulations; and the penal sum of said bond shall not be less than $5,000, and said bond shall be renewed or strengthened as the Com- missioner may require. (b) TRANSFER OF POWERS AND DITIES.- For transfer of powers and duties of Commissioner and his agents. see section 3170. SEC. 4011. COMPENSATION. (a) SALARY.-A ll storekeeper-gaugers shall be full-time employees, paid upon a per annum basis. No person who was employed as a storekeeper-gauger on April 1, 1929, shall be paid at a rate less than the rate upon which his per diem compensation was based at such time; and no person entering upon such employment after such time shall be paid at a rate less than the minimum rate upon which per diem compensation of storekeeper-gaugers was based on April 1, 1929. (b) TRAVELING EXPENSES.- Storekeeper-gaugers, when traveling to or from assignments, or when transferred from one assignment to another, either in the same district or in different districts, shall receive actual and necessary traveling expenses. (c) SUBSISTENCE.- For subsistence allowed, see section 4012. SEC. 4012. POST OF DUTY. (a) PRINCIPAL STATION.- The Commissioner shall designate for each storekeeper-gauger a principal station, which shall be held to be the designated post of duty of such employee for the purposes of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, c. 457, 44 Stat. 688 (U. S . C ., Title 5, c. 16) as amended, and which shall, wherever practicable, be at or near the place of bona fide residence of such employee. Such prin- cipal station may be changed from time to time by the Commissioner as circumstances may require. A storekeeper-gauger, when on detail 491

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