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 [58 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS--H. 175-APR. 22 1944 Unusual conditions: For unusual conditions at post offices, $800,000. Clerks, third-class post offices: For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services $11,500,000. Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For mis- cellaneous items necessary and incidental to the operation and pro- tection of post offices of the first and second classes, and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $2,820,000. Village delivery service: For village delivery service in towns and villages having post offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,261,000. Detroit River service: For Detroit River postal service, $11,960. Carfare and bicycle allowance: For carfare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery carfare, cost of transporting carriers by privately owned automobiles to and from their routes, at rates not exceeding regular streetcar or bus fare, and purchase, maintenance, and exchange of bicycles, $1,670,000. City delivery carriers: For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, and United States Official Mail and Messenger Service, $199,000,000. Special-delivery fees: For fees to special-delivery messengers, $15,750,000. 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, $107,690,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for extensions and new service. OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTSTMASTER ENEAL Star-route service: For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, $19,600,000. Star Route and Air Mail Service, Alaska: For inland transportation by Star Route and Air Mail Service in Alaska, $500,000. Powerboat service: For inland transportation by steamboat or other powerboat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $570,000. Railroad transportation and mail messenger service: For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $138,180,000: Provided, That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service. Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one hundred and twenty chief clerks, one hundred and twenty assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $80,248,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance: For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $4,075,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents assistant superintendents, chief clerks and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal c erks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Ofice Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $64,000. 210

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