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 PUBLIC LAWS--C. 115-MAY 6, 1939 Furniture, etc., Postal Service, including complete equipment and furniture for post quarrs. offices in leased and rented quarters; for the purchase, repair, and replacement of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the pro- Post-route maps, tection of the mails; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation etc. and publication of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blue- prints, including tracing for. photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural delivery service, and for letter boxes; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works not to exceed $1,500; Twine andtying de- for wrapping twine and tying devices; (not more than three-fourths of the funds herein appropriated for the purchase of twine shall be expended in the purchase of twine manufactured from materials or commodities produced outside the United States) for expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, Personal services. packing, and not exceeding $62,300 for the pay of employees in con- nection therewith in the District of Columbia; for rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, accident prevention, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous craveling melani- expenses of installation and operation of same, including not to ans. exceed $35,000 for salaries of thirteen traveling mechanicians, and Saeofmaps,etc. for traveling expenses, $3,000,000: Provided, That the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blueprints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added. uiptment shots, Equipment shops, Washington, District of Columbia: For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail con- tainers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses per- taining thereto; material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; accident prevention; for the expenses of maintenance and repair of the mail bag equipment shops building and equipment, including fuel, light, power and miscellane- ous supplies and services; maintenance of grounds; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops and in the operation, care, maintenance, and protection of the equipment shops building, Personal services. grounds, and equipment, $1,200,000, of which not to exceed $635,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Potive eui Provided, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is ments, manacture. authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufac- ture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. Rentlight,fueland Rent, light, fuel, and water: For rent, light, fuel, and water, for waerfirst-, second-, and third-class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices, $10,450,000. Pneumatic-tube Pneumatic-tube service, New York City: For rental of not exceed- City. ing twenty-eight miles of pneumatic tubes, hire of labor, communica- tion service, electric power and other expenses for transmission of mail in the city of New York including the Borough of Brooklyn, Reotionexpenses, $550,000: Provded, That not to exceed $7,300 of this sum shall be etc. available toward the cost of the relocation of the pneumatic-tube line and machinery incidental to removal of the post-office station 680 [53 STAT.

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