SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 117. 1918. 751 Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Postal ervice as may be deemed expedient, $1,000,000: Provided, Prom. That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized m£,$°{f,‘,.°'§§° °‘*“l§‘ to use as much of tile sum, not exceeding $5,000, as may be deemed ’**¤S*¤·¤¤¤*ig¤i¤¤P¤¤: necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the smiom equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive e uipments as may be required by other executive departments; and ilor service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. For compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops at Shl,‘§§f°’· °q‘“*"”°“* Washington, District of Columbia, $285,000. For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in m$§$,“,{_‘°“"" ‘”“‘*p°" Alaska), including temcrgorary service to newly established offices, p,,,,,,_,,, $8,675,000: Provided, at hereafter no part of this appropriation %D¥;>¤¤,¤Ei¤¤¤,<,},u, if shall be expended for continuance of any sta.r—route service the Y d°` Eatronage of which shall be served entirely by the extension of F , mm ural Delivery Service, nor shall any of said sum be e ended for ms °°‘ star-route service for a patronage a major portion of which has been served by Rural Delivery Service, unless the services of a qualiied rural carrier can not be secured. For pay of rural carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual eave, clerks in charge of rural stations, tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, an for the incidental expenses thereof, $65,800,000; Provided, That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount gggjgémks hereby apprqpriated may be used for the compensation of clerks in , ` charge of rur stations: · romkled further, That on and after Jul first, mP ¤,§ ° * hm ¤>¤¤== nineteen hundred and eighteen, rural carriers assigned to horse- vm. 39, p. 423. drawn vehicle routes on which daily service is performed shall °“‘°"d°°‘ receive $24 per mile per annum for each mile said routes are in excess of twenty-four milespr major fraction thereof, based on actual mileagi, andy rural carriers assigned to horse-drawn vehicle routes on w 'ch triweeklg service is performed shall receive $12 per mile per annum for eac mile said routes are in excess of twenty-four miles Motor vemcie ea. or major fraction thereof based on actual mileage: Provided further, "°”· That the pay of carriers who furnish and maintain their own motor vehicles and who serve routes not less than fifty miles in length may be fixed at not exceeding $2,160 per annum. V dw _ For village delivery service in towns and villages having post mm W"' offices of the second or third class, $720,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office ""°"°*·°‘°· of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. ,,_,,,,c,_,_,0, ,,8,,,, Sec. 2. That during the fiscal year endin§lJune thirtieth, nineteen yrzrivw. t hundred and nineteen, the annual salaries ’ed by law for assistant emss$$°tsu;l}?°}}rl°rl`¤°§ postmasters at first and second class post offices, and supervisory °*“°*“’5· ofhcials, whose compensation is $2,200 and less per annum, shall be increased $200, and those whose compensation is m excess of $2,200 Clem 8,,,, ,5,,,,,,, shall be increased five per centum; that clerks in first and second class riggesand seems msi post offices and letter carriers in the City Delivery Service shall be ° ' divided into six grades, as follows: First grade, salary $1,000; second N”“' Emmgrade. salary $1,100 ; third grade, salary $1,200; fourth grade, salary p,,,m.,m,,,s_ 31.300; fifth grade, salary $1.400; sixth grade, salary $1,500. Clerks ,,,,,,,0, and carriers shall be romoted successively to the sixth grade: Pro- I Auwmngc transfers tidéd, That on Jul grst, nineteen hundred and eighteen, clerks in my 1'191 ' first and second clrass post offices and letter camers in the City Delivery Service who are in grades two, three, four, five, and six, v¤rs4,p.m¤s. under the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, as amended, shall pass automatically from such grades and the salaries they receive thereunder to the new grades, one, two, three, four, and five, respectively. with the salaries provided for such grades m this g¤mH;£gs,=:§,!s$;•gd¤- Act: P1-o»vided_1iu·ther, That the salaries of railwaydpostal clerks shall ’ be graded as follows: Grade one at $1,100; gra e two at $1,200;
