63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 286-JUNE 30, 1949 TRANSPORTATION OF EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the departmental and field services by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $900,000. SALARIES, CUSTODIAL SERVICE For personal services in the custodial service, $52,800,000. SUPPLIES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS For necessary miscellaneous articles, services and supplies, including transportation thereof, required for the operation of completed and occupied public buildings and grounds operated by the Post Office De- partment, $8,150,000, which shall not be available for personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $250 at any one building: Provided, That the Postmaster General is authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under his administration by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activ- ities, where he determines that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the bureaus and offices receiving the same. EQUIPMENT, PUBLIC BUILDINGS For the procurement, including transportation, of furniture, car- pets, safes, safe and vault protective devices, and repairs of same, for use in public buildings which are now, or may hereafter be, operated by the Post Office Department, $1,205,000: Provided, That excepting expenditures for labor for or incidental to the moving of equipment from or into public buildings, the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: Providedfurther, That all furni- ture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as prac- ticable, whether or not it corresponds with the present regulation plan of furniture. POSTAL DEFICIENCY DEFICIENCY IN POSTAL REVENUES If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made under this title, a sum equal to such deficency in the revenues is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues for the current fiscal year, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 202. Unless otherwise provided, no part of any appropriation in this title for the field service shall be expended on account of the departmental service: Provided, That necessary expenses of officials and employees of the departmental or field services traveling on offi- cial business may be paid from the appropriation for the service in connection with which the travel is performed: Provided further, 373 Personal services, limitation. Telephone service. Personal services, limitation. Use of present furni- ture. Restriction on use of appropriation. Travel expenses.
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