58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 143, 144-MAR . 29, 1944 prorated over the months such office is open for business during a fiscal year: Provided further, That the salaries of postmasters at newly established offices of the fourth class shall be fixed at the lowest salary rate, except that whenever unusual conditions prevail at such an office the Postmaster General, in his discretion, may advance any such office to the appropriate salary rate indicated by the receipts of the preceding quarter. SEC. 3 . The salaries of postmasters of the fourth class shall be readjusted at the beginning of each fiscal year: Provided, That only 85 per centum of the gross postal receipts during the period the increased rate of postage, authorized by the Revenue Act of June 6, 1932, as amended (July 6, 1932, to July 1, 1943), remains in force shall be counted for the purpose of determining the compensation or allowances of such postmasters and the classification of post offices: Provided further, That for the purpose of fixing the compensation and allowances at offices of the fourth class, credits shall be allowed only for the postage collected in addition to the regular rate on business reply cards and letters in business reply envelopes delivered at such offices. SEC. 4 . All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be con- struedto repeal the provisions of section 717 of title 39 of the United States Code authorizing the payment of fees on domestic or inter- national money orders issued at money-order post offices of the fourth class, nor allowances for rent, fuel, light, and equipment as provided in the Thirty-ninth United States Code, section 60a. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect July 1, 1944. Approved March 29, 1944. [CHAPTER 144] AN ACT To extend for an additional ninety days the period during which certain grains and other products to be used for livestock and poultry feed may be imported from foreign countries free of duty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to permit the importation from foreign countries free of duty, during a period of ninety days, of certain grams and other products to be used for livestock and poultry feed, and suspending for two months the increase in the tax rates under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act", approved December 22, 1943 (Public Law 211, Seventy-eighth Congress), is amended to read as follows: "That (a) notwithstanding the provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930, the following, when imported into the United States from foreign countries, and when entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con- sumption, at any time after December 22, 1943, and before June 20, 1944, shall be exempt from duty: "(1) Wheat, oats barley, rye, flax, cottonseed, corn, or hay, or products in chief value of one or more of the foregoing or derivatives thereof, any of the foregoing if to be used as, or as a constitutent part offeed for livestock and poultry. (2) Flaxseed, if the entry or withdrawal is after the date this paragraph takes effect. "(3) tats to be used for purposes of human consumption, if the entry or withdrawal is after the date this paragraph takes effect. "(b) This joint resolution shall not be construed to authorize the importation of wheat for milling purposes. 131 Newly established offices. Annual readjust- menta 47 Stat. 285; 67 Stat. 157. 39 U. . C., 8upp. m, 1 280 note. Repeal of inconsist ent laws. Effective date. March 29, 194 [H. R. 44101 [Public Law 2721 Importation of certain grains freoe duty. dU6Vsmt. 807. 19 U. 8. 0., Bupp III, I 1001, per. 7 note. Time extenson. 46 Stat. 590 . 19U.S.C.§i m01- 1654; Supp. III, 1001 i stV. Pot, pp. 269, 722. Grains for feed. Flaomeed. Oats for humas oonswmptim. Whet or miniyr, restricto.
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