62 STAT.] 8OTH CONG., 2 D SESS.-CH. 466 -JUNE 14, 1948 Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $1,350,000. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $823,000. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $250,000. Office of the Chief Inspector, $405,000. Office of the Purchasing Agent, $85,000. Bureau of Accounts, $505,000. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT For necessary, contingent and miscellaneous expenses not otherwise provided for; purchase and exchange of lawbooks and books of ref- erence; newspapers; and travel expenses of the purchasing agent and of the solicitor and personnel connected with his office, not exceeding $2,100; $172,150. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department and Postal Service, $2,114,000. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: Provided, That necessary expenses of officials and employees of the Post Office Depart- ment and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed: Provided further, That appropriations here- inafter made, except such as are exclusively for payment of compensa- tion, shall be available for expenses in connection with the examination of estimates for appropriations in the field including per diem allow- ances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence: And provided further, That the appropriations for the Post Office Department and the Postal Service shall be available for expenditures in connection with accident prevention, but no appropriation made for the field service shall be expended on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. FIELD SERVICE, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Travel and miscellaneous expenses: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $3,000. Damage claims: For the payment of claims for damages to persons or property occurring in the fiscal year 1949, or in prior fiscal years, pursuant to section 403 of the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U. S. C . 921), and in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appro- priation Act, approved June 16, 1921 (5 U. S . C. 392), as amended by the Act approved June 22,1934 (31 U. S . C . 224c), $175,000. Adjusted losses and contingencies: To pay to postmasters, navy mail clerks, and assistant navy mail clerks, coast guard mail clerks, assistant coast guard mail clerks, army mail clerks, and assistant army mail clerks, or credit them with the amount ascertained to have been lost or destroyed during the fiscal year 1949, or prior fiscal years, through unavoidable casualty resulting from no fault or negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved March 17, 1882, as amended by the Act approved December 7, 1945 (39 U. S. C . 49), $75,000. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INSPECTOR Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions and eight hundred inspectors, $4,350,000. Travel and miscellaneous expenses: For necessary travel and miscellaneous expenses incurred in the operation of the post office 68706 -- 4---PT . --- 27 417 Po, p. 6B4. Field service appro- priations, restriction on use. Travel expenses. Examination of esti- mates. Accident preven- tion. Poat, p. 564. 60 Stat. 843 . Post, p. 100S. 42 Stat. 63 . 48 Stat. 1207. 22 Stat. 29; 59 Stat. 603. 39U. S.C., Supp. I, 149 note.
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