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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 71-MAR. 25, 1940 Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $798,560. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $474,240. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $111,300. Office of the chief inspector, $237,000. Office of the purchasing agent, $47,240. Bureau of Accounts, $114,120. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT For contingent and miscellaneous expenses; stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes; telegraph and telephone service, furniture and filing cabinets and repairs thereto; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of tools, electrical supplies, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; maintenance of motortrucks and of two motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one for the Postmaster General and one for the general use of the Department); streetcar fares; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 49 of the Cairo convention of the Universal Postal Union; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department; newspapers, not exceeding $200; expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions concerned with postal affairs, when incurred on the written authority of the Postmaster General, not exceeding $2,000; expenses of the purchasing agent and of the Solicitor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the Depart- ment, not exceeding $800; and other expenses not otherwise provided for; $84,388. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washing- ton, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $850,000. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: Provided, That 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 appropriations for the fiscal year 1941 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor: Providedfurther, That 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 appro- priations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. 71 Post, p. 1044. Department contin- gent expenses. Vehicles. Correspondence ad- dressedabroad. 49 Stat. 2768. Printing and bind- ing. Field service appro- priations, use re- stricted. Provsos. Travel expenses. Examination of es- timates for field ex- penses. FnLD SERVICE, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Travel expenses, Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters Treael etc., ex- General: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, es. offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $3,000.

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