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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 115 -MAY 6, 1939 it 01 11 a p Printing and bind- For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including lg. all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Wash- ington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $905,000. Fieldservice appro- Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post use for sDepart- Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended lent. for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the TPrv einses Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: Provided, That expense the actual and necessary expenses of officials and employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed, and appro- priations for the fiscal year 1940 of the character heretofore used for Examination of such purposes shall be available therefor: Provided further, That stimates for appro- riations in the feld. appropriations hereinafter made, except such as are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be immediately available for expenses in connection with the examination of estimates for appropriations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. FIELD SERVICE, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL p 1: a Travel, etc., ex- Travel expenses, Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters ens. General: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $3,000. Damage claims. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1940, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved 42 Stat. 63; 48 Stat. June 16, 1921 (5 U. S . C . 392), as amended by the Act approved 5U. . s.. 392. June 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 1207), $45,000. Adjustednlsses and Adjusted losses and contingencies: To enable the Postmaster Gen- eral to pay to postmasters, Navy mail clerks, and assistant Navy mail clerks or credit them with the amount ascertained to have been lost or destroyed during the fiscal year 1940, or prior fiscal years, through burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty resulting from no fault or negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved March 22 Stat. 29. 17, 1882, as amended, $220,000. 39U.S.C.S49. Inspectors, salaries. Traveling and mis- cellaneous expenses. Investigations, etc. Proviso. Chemical, etc., in- vestigations. OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions and six hundred inspectors, $2,336,000. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post- office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases; for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, including necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, and not to exceed $500 for technical and scientific books and other books of reference needed in the operation of the Post Office Inspection Service, $630,000: Provided, That not exceeding $28,000 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establish- ments for chemical and other investigations. 676 [53 STAT.

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