Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 59 Part 1.djvu/90

 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 92-APR. 24, 1945 Post, p. 652. Post, p. 652. Post, p. 652. Postal Savings Sys- tem, supplies. 36 Stat. 817. Miscellaneous equipment and sup- plies. Post-route maps. Labor-saving devices. Sale of maps or blue- prints. Indemnities, domestic mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of domestic registered matter, insured and collect- on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on -delivery charges, fiscal year 1946 and prior years, $1,270,000. Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, $800,000. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Post office stationery, equipment, and supplies: For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry system; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes, and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (39 U. S. C . 760); for miscel- laneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter- box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, stamp vending and postage meter devices, duplicating machines, printing presses, direc- tories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manu- facture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and com- bination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase of time recorders, let- ter balances scales (exclusive of dormant or built-in platform scales in Federal buildings), test weights, and miscellaneous articles pur- chased and furnished directly to the Postal Service, including com- plete equipment and furniture for post offices in leased and rented quarters; for the purchase (including exchange), repair, and replace- ment of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publi- cation of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction- for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, sec- ond, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural-delivery service, and for letter boxes; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works not to exceed $1,500; for wrapping twine and tying devices; for expenses incident to the ship- ment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $63,800 for the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia; for rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling appara- tus, accident prevention, and other labor-saving devices, including not to exceed $35,000 for salaries of thirteen traveling mechanicians, and for traveling expenses, $4,900,000: Provided, That the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added. Equipment shops, Washington, District of Columbia: For the pur- chase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail con- tainers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses per- taining thereto; material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair of such other equipment for the Postal [59 STAT.

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