56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 178-MAR . 10, 1942 Star-route service, Alaska: For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $180,000. Powerboat service: For inland transportation by steamboat or other powerboat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,650 000. Railroad transportation and mail messenger service: For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $126,000,000: Provided,That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service: Provided further, That there may be expended from this appropriation for personal services in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $35,000 to carry out the provisions of section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (39 U. S. C. 826) (cost ascertainment). Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one hundred and twenty chief clerks, one hundred and twenty assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $60,530,175. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance: For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $3,375,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintend- ent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $57,500. Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses: For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution cannot, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional com- pensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $430,000. Electric-car service: For electric-car service, $200,000. Foreign mail transportation. For transportation of foreign mails, except by aircraft, $2,410,000: Provided, That the Postmaster Gen- eral is authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $70,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the United States. Balances due foreign countries: For balances due foreign countries, fiscal year 1943 and prior years, $2,250,000. Indemnities, international mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with con- vention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, fiscal year 1943 and prior years, $8,000. Rural Delivery Service: For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary car- riers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Serv- ice, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $92,200,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for extensions and new service. Foreign air-mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mails by aircraft, as authorized by law, including the transportation of mail by aircraft between Seattle, Washington, and Juneau, Alaska, via Ketchikan, Alaska, $16,055,979. 165 Provisos. 43 Stat. 1069. Aalr Sea pot anrvi o ocean stem&M.
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