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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CH. 156 - -MAY 31, 1941 standard typewriting machines (except bookkeeping, billing, and electric machines) at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $90; eighteen inches, $95. This title may be cited as the "Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942". TITLE II-POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836 (5 U. S. C. 380; 39 U. S. C. 786), for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, namely: POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Salaries: For the Postmaster General and other personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $226,904. SALARIES IN BUREAUS AND OFFICES For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $391,420. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $587,600. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $794,810. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $474,240. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $115,500. Office of the chief inspector, $240,910. Office of the purchasing agent, $47,240. Bureau of Accounts, $114,120. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT For contingent and miscellaneous expenses; stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes; telegraph and telephone service, furniture and filing cabinets and repairs thereto; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of tools, electrical supplies, typewriters, add- ing machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase (including exchange) of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and for maintenance of motortrucks and of two motor-driven passenger-carry- ing vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one for the Post- master General and one for the general use of the Department); streetcar fares; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 49 of the Buenos Aires convention of the Universal Postal Union; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of reference, railway guides, city direc- tories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department; newspapers, not exceeding $200; expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions concerned with postal affairs, 227 Citation of title. Post Office Depart- ment Appropriation Act, 1942 . 5 Stat. 80. Post, p. 834. Post, p. 834. Post, p . 559. Vehicles. Correspondence ad- dressed abroad. 54 Stat. 2074 .