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Certification.

False return. Withholding of compensation.

PUBLIC LAW 113—AUG. 16, 1951

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"Every postmaster shall render to the Postmaster General, in such form and at such times as the latter shall prescribe, accounts of all moneys received or charged by him or at his office, for postage, rent of boxes or other receptacles for mail matter, or by leason of keeping a branch office, or for the delivery of mail matter in any manner whatever or for the performance oi any other function connected with his office." (b) Section 3844 of the Revised Statutes (39 U.S.C. 43) is hereby amended to read as follows: "The Postmaster General ma}'^ require a certification to accompany each account of a postmaster, to the effect that such account contains a true statement of the entire amount of postage, box rents, charges, and moneys collected or received at his office during the accounting period; that he has not knowingly delivered, or permitted to be delivered, any mail matter on which the postage was not at the time paid, that such account exhibits truly and faithfully the entire receipts collected at his office, and which, by due diligence, could have been collected; and that the credits he claims are just and right." (c) That part of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes", approved June 17, 1878 (20 Stat. 140), as amended by the Act entitled "An Act to enable the Postmaster General to withhold commissions on false returns made by postmasters", approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 989; 39 U.S.C. 45), is hereby amended to read as follows: " I n any case where the Postmaster General shall be satisfied that a postmaster has made a false return of business, it shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster General to withhold compensation on such returns and to allow any compensation that under the circumstances he may deem reasonable or proper. The form of certification to be made by postmasters upon their returns shall be such as may be prescribed by the Postmaster General." Approved August 14, 1951.

Public Law 113

CHAPTER 3 1 7 JOINT RESOLUTION

August 16, 1951 [H..T. Res. 311]

Making a supplemental appropriation for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1952.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, the following sum: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT SBOURITT

Ante, p. 119.

Ante, p. 119.

For necessary expenses to enable the Secretary of Labor to discharge his responsibilities under the provisions of the Act of July 12, 1951 (Public Law 78), $950,000, of which $750,000 shall be for the establishment of a working capital fund, such fund to be used for the payment of those expenses for which employers are liable under agreements entered into pursuant to section 502 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Act of July 12, 1951, and such fund to be reimbursed from payments made to the United States by employers pursuant to

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