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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 156-MAY 31, 1941 Printing and bind- ing. Field service ap- propriations, use re - stricted. Provisos. Travel expenses. Examination of esti- mates, etc. when incurred on the written authority of the Postmaster General, not exceeding $2,000; expenses of the purchasing agent and of the Solici- tor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the Department, not exceeding $800; and other expenses not other- wise provided for; $89,796. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Wash- ington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $810,000. 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 appro- priations for the service in connection with which the travel is per- formed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1942 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor: Pro- vided further, 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 appropriations in the field including per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. FIELD SERVICE, POST OcrIOE DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Travel expenses, Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $3,000. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1942, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved 2 Stat. . 4 June 16, 1921 (5 U. S . C . 392), as amended by the Act approved June 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 1207), $45,000. 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 1942, or prior fiscal years, through burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty resulting from no fault Stor negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved March 17, 1882, as amended, $60,000. OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions and six hundred and thirty-five inspectors, $2,444,700. 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-ofce inspectors in connection with their official investigations, including necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, and not to exceed $500 for technical and scien- tific books and other books of reference needed in the operation of the Post, p. 834. 228 [55 STAT.

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