FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2513. 1907. 1213 at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; one thousand eight hundred and fifty clerks, class four, at not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; five thousand six hundred clerks, class three, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; two thousand two hundred clerks, class two, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; nine hundred and ten clerks, class one, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; eight hundred clerks, class one, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; in all, seventeen million four hundred and tgirty-nine thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars: Prmzided, That the Postmaster-General may, in his discm- mum. tion, under such regulations as he ma provide, allow a. clerk who is Si°k1°"°‘ sick leave of absence with pay, his d¥l$iBS to be performed without expense to the Government during the period for which he is muted leave, not exceeding thirty days in any fiscal year: Promfded érthw, That hereafter railway mail clerks ou entering the service sha.] receive ··’· the salary of the lowest grade, and no clerk shall be advanced more than two hundred dollars in any period of one yeu1·’s service. And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall be ;,,’}{’°°"’"“°"°‘ l"“ so made dunng the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum. or temporary clerk hjre in classes one and two for emergency ser- E¤°’8°'*°>'*“’*°°· vice, fifty thousand dollars. For substitutes for clerks on vacation, fifty thousand dollars: Pm- ¥,",iE§"° °l°'” vided, That the Postms.%t.er—Gcne1—al may allow railway postal clerks ·*¤¤¤=**¤¤•**°¤- whose duties require them to work six days or more per week, fifty- two weeks per year, an annual vacation of fifteen days with pay. That the leave of absence authorized by law to clerks in post-offices °°“'*'“°“°“· shall be construed exclusive of Sundays and holidays. For acting clerks, in place of clerks injured while on duty, and to ·*°"”¤ °’°*** enable the Postmaster-General topuy the sum of one thousand dollars, of·§L°{,"*“°° m °”° which shall be exempt from the payment of debts of the deceased, to the legal representatives of any rai way postal clerk or substitute railway postal clerk who shall be killed while on duty 01* who, being injured while on dutv, shall die within one year thereafter as the result of such in ury, one hundred thousand dollars. §cting or substitute city letter carriers, rural letter carriers, post- , ,§°'“°°’“*’ °“"'°" office clerks, railway mail clerks, and other employees connected with PM ¤•>¤=·~·¤¤¤¤=·· the postal service who are temporary employees shall be paid at the usual rate for each duy’s service during the iiscul your ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and thervuftur. For actual and necessary expenses, division superintendents, ussisb T”`""""""'""" " amt division superintendents, and chief clerks, railway mail service, and railway postal clerks. While actually traveling 0n business of the Post-Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, twenty thousand dollars. V l For rent, light, fuel, telegraph. and miscellaneous office expenses, °'"’°“ “°°“S= schedules of mail trains, tc ep one service, and badges for railway postal clerks, sixty thousand dollars. M For per diem allowance of assistant superintendents while actually ,,$‘§Qp§,’{{;$§3,¤,& travelin on offcial business away from their home, their 0iHcial domicile, um? their headquarters, at :1 rate to be fixed by the Postmaster- General, not to exceed four dollars per day, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; and for their necessary offcial expenses not covered by their per diem allowance, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty thousand dollars. For inland transportation of mail by electric uml cable cars, eight ca§*s;‘§g§e‘*“d °'“°**" hundred and seventy thousand dollars: Pzvwiderl, That the rate of compensation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to C°mp°"°“°°' companies performincr such service. except that the Postmaster-General, in cases where tie quantity of mail xs large and the number of
