59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CH. 274--JULY 6, 1945 451 and shall be promoted successively at the beginning of the quarter following one year's satisfactory service in each grade to the next higher grade until they reach the fourth grade: Provided, That for Additional grades. such clerks there shall be two additional grades; that is, grade 5, $3,100; grade 6, $3,200; and that such clerks who perform faithful and meritorious service shall be promoted to grade 5 after three years of such service in grade 4, and shall be promoted to grade 6 after five years of such service in grade 5. (f) Whenever in the discretion of the Postmaster General the Transer ofemploy- needs of the service require such action, he is authorized to transfer ees. clerks, or carriers in the City Delivery Service to the position of clerk at division headquarters and other posts of duty of post-office inspectors at a salary not to exceed $2,300 when the salary of the employee being transferred is less than $2,300, and when the salary of the employee being transferred is equal to or greater than $2,300, such employee may be transferred at not less than the salary received in the position from which transferred. After such transfer is made effective, employees so transferred shall be eligible for promotion to the grades of salary provided herein for clerks at division head- quarters and other posts of duty of post-office inspectors. RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE AND AIM MAIL SERVICE SEC. 16. (a) The annual salaries of officers in the Railway Mail Service and the Air Mail Service shall be as follows: Division super- intendents, $6,700; assistant division superintendents, $5,700; assist- ant superintendents at large $5,500; chief clerks, $5,000; assistant chief clerks, $4,200; chiefs of sections in offices of division superin- tendents, Railway Mail Service, $4,200; regional superintendents, Air Mail Service, $5,000; and assistant regional superintendents, Air Mail Service, $4,200. (b) Railway postal clerks, and clerks assigned to offices of regional superintendents of Air Mail Service, shall be divided into seventeen grades with annual salaries as follows: Grade 1---------------------- $1,900 Grade 10-- .-------------- - $2, 800 Grade 2---------------------- 2,000 Grade 11 ------------------- 2, (00 Grade 3--- -- --- --- --- -- 2,100 Grade l2--------------------- 3, 000 Grade 4----------------------- 2, 200 Grade 13-- .----------------- , 3100 Grade 5---------------------- 2,300 Grade 14 --------------------- 8,200 Grade 6---------------------- 2,400 Grade 15--------------------- 3,300 Grade 7---------------------- 2,500 Grade 16------------------- 3,400 Grade 8----------------------- 2,600 Grade 17------------------ 3--500 Grade 9----------------------- 2,700 (c) Railway post-office lines shall be divided into two classes, class A and class B, and clerks assigned to class A lines shall be promoted successively to grade 9, and after three years of faithful and meritori- ous service in grade 9 shall be promoted to grade 10; after five years of faithful and meritorious service in grade 10 shall be promoted to grade 11, and after seven years of faithful and meritorious service in grade 11 shall be promoted to grade 12. Clerks in charge in class A lines shall be of grade 14. Clerks assigned to class B lines shall be promoted successively to grade 11 and shall be promoted to grade 12 after three years of faithful and meritorious service in grade 11; to grade 13 after five years of faithful and meritorious service in grade 12; and to grade 14 after seven years of faithful and meritorious service in grade 13. Clerks in charge of Class B lines shall be of grade 16: Provided,That in trains in which more than sixty feet of distribut- ing car space is authorized in either direction over the entire length
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