Post Office Appropriation Bill, 1928: Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations ... in Charge of Post Office Appropriation Bill for 1928. Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session |
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additional air mail allowances amount annual rate appropriation for 1927 asking assistant postmasters authorized average BARTLETT bids BILLANY BUCKLER BUFFINGTON building Bureau BYRNS CARLE carried carriers cent CHAIRMAN charge Chicago city delivery committee compensation consolidation contract cost course departmental-owned trucks dollars employees equipment estimate for 1928 fiscal year 1926 Fourth Assistant fourth-class GALLIVAN garage give GLOVER GovE Government grade High back HOWELL increase indemnity July June 30 labor leases less letter boxes MAGUE MALLALIEU ment miscellaneous NICHOL operation paid parcel-post Post Office Department postal savings Postal Savings System Postal Service pound priation quarter railroad Railway Mail Service railway post offices receipts REGAR rental revenue Rural Delivery Service salaries second class SIMMONS SPILMAN stamps star routes statement station Steamship THATCHER third class tion transportation traveling expenses twine unexpended balance White or blue
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Page 102 - ... alleged indecent, obscene, scurrilous, or defamatory matter; with determining the legal acceptability of securities offered by banks to secure postal savings deposits; with the examining and, when necessary, drafting of all contracts of the department; with the enforcement of laws making...
Page 129 - December 28, 1922, cases involving property damage sustained through the negligence of a Government employee acting within the scope of his employment are withdrawn from the provisions of the act of June 16, 1921, and these claims are now certified to Congress for appropriations for their payment.
Page 81 - Printer fertile printing and binding required in the Postal Service and the department, and receiving, and inspecting on receipt, of blanks required in the Post Office Department; the supervision of .the receipt and inspection of supplies for the Post Office Department and the Postal Service which are delivered in Washington...
Page 126 - General is hereby authorized to pay a cash reward for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency...
Page 126 - That no employee shall be paid a reward under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the suggestion, or series of suggestions, made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by him, his heirs, or assigns, and that application for patent has not been made for the invention.
Page 94 - Act for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923...
Page 222 - The Postmaster General shall make provision by regulation for the indemnification of shippers, for shipment injured or lost, by insurance or otherwise, and, when desired, for the collection on delivery of the postage and price of the articles shipped, fixing such charges as may be necessary to pay the cost of such additional services.
Page 81 - Service; of advertising; the supervision of requisitions upon the Treasury and the expenditure of the appropriations for the departmental service; the keeping of the journals and order books; the...
Page 240 - General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions 1, 650, 000.
Page 250 - That whenever in the judgment of the Postmaster General the bids received for any star route are exorbitant or unreasonable, or whenever he has reason to believe that a combination of bidders has been entered into to fix the rate for star-route service, the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized, out of the appropriation for inland transportation by star routes, to employ and use such means or methods to provide the desired service as he may deem expedient, without reference to existing...