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Transfer of

funds

PUBLIC LAW 89-315-NOV. 1, 1965

[79 STAT.

result of disease or injury incurred as a result of services in an overseas area designated by the President under clause (D)(i); and " (E) the nation in whose armed forces the sender is a member has agreed to assume all international postal transportation charges incurred. " (b) The Department of Defense shall transfer to the Post Office Department as postal revenue, out of any appropriations or funds available to the Department of Defense, as a necessary expense of the appropriations or funds and of the activities concerned, the equivalent amount of postage due, as determined by the Postmaster General, for matter sent in the mails under authority of subsection (a) of this section. "(c) Subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be administered under such conditions, and under such regulations, as the Postmaster General and the Secretary of Defense jointly may prescribe." (b) The table of contents of chapter 57 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding "4169. Mailing privilege of members of United States Armed Forces and of friendly foreign nations."

immediately below "4168. Correspondence of members of diplomatic corps and consuls of countries of Postal Union of Americas and Spain."

74 Stat. 665.

Repeal. Ante, p. 548.

SEC. 2. Section 4303(d) of title 39, United States Code, is amended by striking out paragraph (3) and inserting in lieu thereof the follow"(3) I n addition to parcels to which it is otherwise applicable, the eighth zone includes, for purposes of this section only, except as provided by paragraph (4) of this subsection, parcels transported between the United States, its territories and possessions or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone. "(4) The rates of postage on air parcel post transported between the United States, its territories and possessions or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone, and Army, Air Force, and Fleet post offices, shall be the applicable zone rates shown in paragraph (1) of this subsection for mail between the place of mailing or delivery within the United States, its territories or possessions or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone, and the city of the postmaster serving the Army, Air Force, or Fleet post office concerned. "(5) Fourth-class parcels not exceeding five pounds in weight and sixty inches in length and girth combined mailed by or addressed to members of the Armed Forces of the United States at or in care of Army, Air Force, and Fleet post offices in overseas combat areas, as designated by the President, shall be transported by air between the post office on a space available basis on United States-flag carriers only, under such conditions and regulations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe and at rates approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board for space available parcel service which shall not exceed the minimum rates charged for the airlift of military cargo in scheduled airline service. "(6) Paragraphs (4) and (5) of this subsection shall be administered under such conditions, and under such regulations, as the Postmaster General and the Secretary of Defense jointly may prescribe." g^,^ 3 (^^\ gection 1040 of title 10, United States Code (relating '
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