60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 588-JULY 20, 1946 Personal or property damage claims: To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1947, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved June 16, 1921 (5 U. S. C. 392), as amended by the Act approved June 22, 1934 (31 U. S. C . 224c), $124,000. Adjusted losses and contingencies: To pay to postmasters, Navy mail clerks, and assistant Navy mail clerks or credit them with the amount ascertained to have been lost or destroyed during the fiscal year 1947, or prior fiscal years, through unavoidable casualty result- ing from no fault or negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved March 17, 1882, as amended (39 U. S . C . 49), $55,000. OFFICE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions and eight hundred inspectors, $3,838,000. Travel and miscellaneous expenses: For necessary travel expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, including reimbursement of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for official travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations, and for the travel expenses of four clerks performing steno- graphic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investi- gation of important fraud cases; for tests, exhibits, documents, photo- graphs, office, and other necesspos-oice, and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, including necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, and not to exceed $500 for books of reference needed in the operation of the Post Office Inspection Service, $960,000: Provided, That not exceed- ing $24,500 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Post- master General to other departments and independent establishments for chemical and other investigations. Clerks: For compensation of three hundred and eighty-nine clerks in the Post Office Inspection Service, $1,073,500. Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, highway mail robbers, and persons mailing or causing to be mailed any bomb, infernal machine, or mechanical chemical, or other device or composition which may ignite, or explode, $55,000: Provided,That rewards may be paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the classes mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those speci- fied in Post Office Department Order 28673, dated July 28, 1945: Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Compensation to postmasters: For compensation to postmasters, including compensation as postmaster to persons who, pending the designation of an acting postmaster, assume and properly perform the duties of postmaster in the event of a vacancy in the offceof post- master of the third or fourth class, and for allowances for rent, light, fuel, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, $74,000,000. 581 42 Stat. 63 . 48 Stat. 1207. Poet, p. 847. 22 Stat. 29. 39 U. S. C., Supp. V, t49. Chemical, etc. , in- vestigations. P. O. Inspection Service. Death of offender. Limitation. Securing of informa- tion.
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