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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS. -CH. 254-JUNE 30, 1939 TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF ACCOUNTS AND DEPOSITS Contingent expenses, public moneys: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, public moneys, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1939, $6,500. COAST GUARD Office of the Commandant: Not exceeding $6,600 of the amount appropriated for "Fuel and water, Coast Guard", in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1939, may be transferred to the appropriation for "Salaries, office of Coast Guard, 1939". PROCUREMENT DIVISION, PUBLIC BUILDINGS BRANCH Operating force for public buildings: For an additional amount for personal services, fiscal year 1939, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1939, $15,500. SEC. 2. That section 6 of the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1940 (Public, Numbered 65, Seventy- sixth Congress), approved May 6, 1939, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 6. On and after July 1, 1939, no executive department or independent establishment of the Government shall transmit through the mail, free of postage, any book, report, periodical, bulletin, pam- phlet, list, or other article or document (except official letter corre- spondence, including such enclosures as are reasonably related to the subject matter of the correspondence; informational releases in con- nection with the decennial census of the United States, mail concern- ing the sale of Government securities, and all forms and blanks and copies of statutes, rules, regulations, and instructions and administra- tive orders and interpretations necessary in the administration of such departments and establishments), unless a request therefor has been previously received by such department or independent establish- nlent; or such transmission is required by law; or such docunlent is transmitted to inform the recipient thereof of the adoption, amend- ment, or interpretation of a statute, rule, regulation, or order to which he is subject. For each quarter, beginning with the quarter com- mencing July 1, 1939, the head of each independent establishment and executive department (other than the Post Office Department) shall submit to the Postmaster General, within thirty days after the close of the quarter, a statement of the weight of the mail matter by classes of mail that the independent establishment or department has transmitted free of postage during such quarter, and he shall also certify to the Postmaster General at the end of each such quarter that nothing was transmitted through the mail free of postage by the independent establishment or department in violation of the pro- visions of this section: Provided, That nothing herein shall be con- strued to prohibit the mailing free of postage of lists of agricultural bulletins, lists of public documents which are offered for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, or of announcements of publica- tions of maps, atlases, statistical, and other reports offered for sale by the Federal Power Commission as authorized by section 312 of the Federal Power Act: Providedfurther, That this prohibition shall not apply to the transmission of such books, reports, periodicals, bulletins, pamphlets, lists, articles, or documents to educational insti- 989 Contingent ex- penses, public moneys. 52 Stat. 124 . Salaries. Transfer of appro- priation. 52 Stat. 129. Operating force, public buildings. 52 Stat. 136 . Official mail matter. Ante, p. 683. Executive depart- ments and independ- ent establishments. Restriction on trans- mitting certain un- solicited matter, free of postage. Exceptions. Quarterly state- ments of weight by classes. Certification ofcom- pliance. Proriss. Exceptions. 49 Stat. 859. 16 U. S. C., Supp. IV. § 825k. Educational insti- tutions, etc.

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