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60-foot car addition thereto apartment railway post-office appropriation for inland August 24 average daily weight car mail service car space carrying the mails cars and apartments cents per mile closed-pouch service Committee on Railway computing Congress discretion facilities full railway post-office furnish inland transportation inside measurement Interstate Commerce Commission Joint Congressional Committee mail carried mail cars mail matter mail transportation ment mile of service mile per annum Moon bill Moon rider nineteen hundred one-way trip paid parcel post pay the railroads Pennsylvania Railroad perform plan of payment Post Office Department post-office car mail post-office car service postage rates Postal Service Postmaster pounds rail Railroad companies carrying railroad routes Railway Mail Pay railway mail service railway post-office car RALPH PETERS rata rates of compensation readjust reduced Senate service rendered space plan storage cars terminal rate transportation by railroad transportation of mail Vice-President weight limit weight of mail Wolcott-Loud
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Page 45 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes...
Page 60 - ... service. The Postmaster General is authorized to return to the mails, when practicable for the utilization of car space paid for and not needed for the mails, postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the Postal Service.
Page 59 - Act for reduction in service or in frequency of service where, in his judgment, the importance of the facilities withdrawn or reduced requires it, and impose fines upon them for delinquencies. He may deduct the price of the value of the service in cases where it is not performed, and not exceeding three times its value if the failure be occasioned by the fault of the railroad company.
Page 44 - Railroad companies whose railroads were constructed in whole or in part by a land grant made by Congress, on the condition that the mails should be transported over their roads at such price as Congress should by law direct, shall receive only eighty per centum of the compensation otherwise authorized by this act.
Page 48 - July 12, 1876, it is directed 'that railroad companies whose railroad was constructed in whole or in part by a land grant made by Congress on the condition that the mails should be transported over their road at such price as Congress should by law direct shall receive only eighty per centum of the compensation authorized by this act.
Page 52 - ... and to rent quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, if necessary, for the clerical force engaged thereon, and to pay for the same out of the appropriation for inland transportation by railroad routes. The Postmaster General shall file with the commission a...
Page 58 - Every steamship company carrying the mails shall carry on any ship it operates and without extra charge therefor the persons in charge of the mails and when on duty and traveling to and from duty, and all duly accredited agents and officers of the Post Office Department and post-office inspectors while traveling on official business, upon the exhibition of their credentials.
Page 59 - The Postmaster General shall, from time to time, request information from the Interstate Commerce Commission as to the revenue received by railroad companies from express companies for services rendered in the transportation of express matter, and may...
Page 57 - ... cars, or between the engine and a steel car adjoining. After the first of July, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the Postmaster General shall not approve or allow to be used...
Page 49 - No pay shall be allowed for service by any wooden full railway post-office car unless constructed substantially In accordance with the most approved plans and specifications of the Post Office Department for such type of cars, nor for service by any wooden full railway post-office car run in any train between adjoining steel cars, or between the engine and a steel car adjoining. After the first of July...