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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 274-JULY 6, 1945 Additional grades. Detroit River Ma- rine Service. and shall be promoted successively at the beginning of the quarter following one year's satisfactory service in each grade to the next higher grade until they reach the eleventh grade: Provided, That for such employees at post offices of the first class there shall be three additional grades; that is, grade 12-$2,800; grade 13-$2,900; grade 14-$3,000, and that employees who perform faithful and meritorious service shall be promoted to grade 12 after three years of such service in grade 11, shall be promoted to grade 13 after five years of such service in grade 12, and shall be promoted to grade 14 after seven years of such service in grade 13: Provided further, That marine carriers assigned to the Detroit River Marine Service shall be paid an annual salary of $300 in excess of the highest salary pro- vided for carriers in the automatic grades in the City Delivery Service: And provided further, That the annual salary of such marine carriers shall not be in excess of $3,000. The pay of substitute, temporary, or auxiliary employees in the services named in the preceding paragraph shall be on an hourly basis at the following rates: Grade 1-- $0. 84 Grade 2__-- -- - .89 Grade 3-- .94 Grade 4 --- -- .99 Grade 5 1.04 Grade 6 1.09 Village delivery serv- ice and third-class post offices. Grade 7 -- --- $1.14 Grade 8-- --- --- - 1. 19 Grade 9- 1. 24 Grade 10--- 1. 29 Grade 11_ --- _--- 1.34 (b) Mail handlers, messengers, and watchmen at post offices of the first and second classes paid from appropriations of the First Assist- ant Postmaster General; and operators of the pneumatic tube service; shall be divided into six grades with annual salaries as follows: Grade 1--- -- $1, 600 Grade 4 _ __ __ - --- $1, 900 Grade 2-- 1, 700 Grade 5 2,000 Grade 3 -- -- 1, 800 Grade 6--- 2, 100 and shall be promoted successively at the beginning of the quarter following one year's satisfactory service in each grade to the next higher grade until they reach the sixth grade. (c) The pay of substitute, temporary, or auxiliary employees in the services named in the preceding paragraph shall be on an hourly basis at the following rates: Grade I - $0. 79 Grade 4--- -- --- _- $0. 94 Grade2 --.- .84 Grade 5- -- --- .99 Grade 3-- .89 Grade 6 1.04 (d) Classified cleaners at post offices of the first and second classes paid from appropriations-of the First Assistant Postmaster General shall be divided into seven grades with annual salaries, as follows: Grade 1 - $1,300 Grade 5- $1, 700 Grade 2- .- - - 1, 400 Grade 6- 1,800 Grade 3-- 1, 500 Grade 7--- 1,900 Grade 4- --- 1, 600 and shall be promoted successively at the beginning of the quarter following one year's satisfactory service in each grade to the next higher grade until they reach the seventh grade. (e) Carriers in the village delivery service, and clerks employed not less than forty hours per week in post offices of the third class, shall be divided into six grades with annual salaries, as follows: Provided, That clerks in post offices of the third class shall not be 444 [59 STAT.

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