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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 1ST SESS. -CH. 115-MAY 6, 1939 Balances due foreign countries: For balances due foreign countries, fiscal year 1940 and prior years, $1,250,000. Indemnities, international mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, fiscal year 1940 and prior years, $11,000. Rural Delivery Service: For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary car- riers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $91,600,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for extensions and new service. OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, and including not to exceed $22,500 for pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and for expenses of agency, $4,599,000: Provided,That not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation may be available for expenses, including the cost of preparing an appropriate display frame of United States postage stamps for exhi- bition purposes, of delegates designated from the Post Office Depart- ment by the Postmaster General to attend the British Philatelic Congress to be held in London, England, during the fiscal year 1940. Indemnities, domestic mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, $550,000. Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, $200,000. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Post office stationery equipment, and supplies: For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry system; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes, and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (39 U. S . C. 760); for miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales (exclusive of dor- mant or built-in platform scales in Federal buildings), test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the Balances due foreign countries. Indemnities, inter- national mail. Rural Delivery Service. Stamps, stamped paper, postal cards, etc. Proviso. British Philatelic Congress, expenses of delegates and display. Indemnities, domes- tic mail. Unpaid money or- ders more than one year old. Stationery, etc. Postal Savings Bys- tem, supplies. Bond expenses. 36 Stat. 817. 39U.S.C. 760. M iscellaneous equipment, etc. Letter boxes. Purchae, etc. , of macuhinw.

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