Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 65.djvu/659

 65 STAT.J

P U B L I C LAW 204—OCT. 24, 1951

(d) Section 15(f) of such Act is amended by striking out "$3,270" wherever it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "$3,670". (e) Section 16(c) of such Act is amended by striking out the second, third, and fourth sentences, including the proviso. (f) Section 16(g) of such Act is amended— (1) by striking out "grade 9" wherever it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "grade 7"; (2) by striking out "grade 11" and inserting in lieu thereof "grade 9"; and (3) by striking out so much of the second sentence as precedes the first proviso. (g) Section 16(h) of such Act is amended to read as follows: " (h) Examiners to be eligible to receive the salary provided in this Act shall first progress through the automatic grades to and including grade 7." (h) Section 16(j) of such Act is amended by striking out "grade 9" and inserting in lieu thereof "grade 7". (i) Section 16(k) of such Act is amended by striking out all after "regular employees assigned to road duty" and inserting in lieu thereof "on an hourly basis at the rates prescribed in section l l A. " (j) Section 16(o) of such Act is amended by striking out all preceding the proviso therein. Co Section 17(a) of such Act is amended to read as follows: " (a) Carriers in the Rural Delivery Service shall be divided into grades, with salaries based in part on specified rates per mile per annum and in part on fixed compensation per annum, as provided in section l l A. " (1) Section 17(d) is amended by striking out "$3,970" wherever it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "$4,370". (m) The following portions of such Act are repealed: Section 12 (b), section 12(c), section 12(d), section 13(b), section 13(c), section 13(d), section 14(b), section 14(c), section 14(d), section 14 (e), section 14(f), section 14(g), section 14(h), section 14(i), section 14(j), section 14(k), section 15(d), section 15(e), section 16 (b), section 16(d), section 16(e), section 16(n), section 16(s), section 18(b), section 18(c), section 18(d), section 18(e), section 19 (a), section 19(c), section 19(d), section 22(a), and section 22(b). SEC. 3. The Act entitled "An Act to provide additional compensation and other benefits for postmasters, officers, and employees in the postal field service", approved October 28, 1949, is repealed. SEC. 4. (a) Each employee on the rolls of the field service of the Post Office Department on the effective date of this Act for whom automatic grades and salaries are provided by section l l A of such Act of July 6, 1945, as added by this Act, who— (1) entered the field service after June 30, 1945, and (2)(A) has not been advanced at least two automatic grades through the operation of the provisions of the first section and section 2 of the Act of March 6, 1946, as amended (Public Law 317, 79th Congress), the Act of July 31, 1946, as amended (Public Law 577, 79th Congress), and section 2(a), (b), (c), and (d) of the Act of October 28, 1949 (Public Law 428, 81st Congress), or (B) is not advanced at least two automatic grades through the operation of such provisions and the operation of the provisions of section 14(b)(1) of this Act—

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