59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 274-JULY 6, 1945 riers assigned to routes seventeen miles or more in length shall be placed in grade 8; rural carriers assigned to routes eleven to sixteen miles in length, inclusive, shall be placed in grade 9; rural carriers assigned to routes eight to ten miles in length, inclusive, shall be placed in grade 10, and rural carriers assigned to routes seven miles or less in length shall be placed in grade 11: Provided,That any car- rier in the Rural Mail Delivery Service on June 30, 1945, who serves six days a week a rural route of less than thirty miles, or who serves three days a week a rural route of less than sixty miles or two routes of a combined length of less than sixty miles, and who is receiving for such service an annual salary in excess of a salary based on the standard rate of $60 per mile per annum for the first thirty miles, and whose annual salary is in excess of such standard rate in con- formity with subsection (d) of the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to adjust the salaries of rural letter carriers, and for other purposes" (48 Stat. 1213), approved June 25, 1934, as amended (U. S. C ., 1940 edition, title 39, sec. 197-a), shall be assigned to the lowest grade that will provide an annual salary of not less than his base pay under all provisions of said Act, as amended, plus $300. MAIL EQUIPMENT SHOPS SEC. 18. (a) The salary of employees in the Mail Equipment Shops shall be as follows: Superintendent, $5,700; assistant superintendent, $4,200; general foremen, $3,600; foremen of the clerical-mechanical service, $2,600 and $2,800; cost accounting and purchasing clerks, $3,100, $3,300, and $3,500; engineers in charge, $3,100; draftsmen, $3,100, $3,300, and $3,500; assistant foremen, $2,400. (b) Clerks, nurses, and painters shall be divided into eleven grades with annual salaries as follows: Grade 1--------------------- $1,700 Grade 7----- -- --------- $2,300 Grade 2---------------------- 1, 800 Grade 8---------------------- 2, 400 Grade 3---------------------- 1,9(0) Grade 9--------------------- 2, (500 Grade 4------------------- 2,000 Grade 10---------------------- 2,(00 Grade 5----------------------- 2, 100 Grade 11-------- -- ----- 2, 700 Grade 6----------------------- 2, 200 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 eleventh grade: Provided, That there shall be three additional grades; that is, grade 12, $2,800; grade 13, $2,900; and grade 14, $3,000; and employees who perform faithful and meritorious service shall be promoted to grade 12 after three years of such service in grade 11, shall be promoted to grade 13 after five years of such service in grade 12, and shall be promoted to grade 14 after seven years of such service in grade 13. (c) Pressmen, lock makers, mail-bag repairers, inspectors, mechanics, and postmarking stamp makers shall be divided into seven grades, with annual salaries as follows: Grade 1--------------- $1, 800 Grade 5-------------- $2, 200 Grade 2-------------- 1,900 Grade 6----------------- 2,300 Grade 3 2,000 Grade 7------------------ 2,400 Grade 4------------------- 2,100 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 seventh grade. 457 Grade assignment of certain rural car- riers. Additional grades.
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