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APPENDIX A 
Reimburse 
ment of Sec 
retary of the 
Treasury. 
Postmaster 
General may 
require postal 
employees to 
transact pos 
tal s a V i n g s 
business. 
Postmaster 
General may 
make rules 
and regula 
tions subject 
to approval of 
board of trus 
tees. 
Protective and 
criminal stat 
utes made ap 
plicable to 
Œ ' ’ savings 
priated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 
to enable the Postmaster General and the 
board of trustees to establish postal savings de 
positories in accordance with the provisions of 
this act, including the reimbursement of the 
Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident 
to the preparation, issue, and registration of the 
bonds authorized in this act; and the Post 
master General is authorized to require post 
masters and other postal officers and employees 
to transact, in connnection with their other 
duties, such postal savings depository business 
as may be necessary; and he is also authorized 
to make, and with the approval of the board of 
trustees to promulgate, and from time to time to 
modify or revoke, subject to the approval of 
said board such rules and regulations not in 
conflict with law as he may deem necessary to 
carry the provisions of this act into effect. 
Sec. 15. That all the safeguards provided 
by law for the protection of public moneys, and 
all statutes relating to the embezzlement, con 
version, improper handling, retention, use, or 
disposal of postal and money-order funds and 
the punishments provided for such offenses are 
hereby extended and made applicable to postal 
savings depository funds, and all statutes relat 
ing to false returns of postal and money-order 
business, the forgery, counterfeiting, alteration, 
improper use or handling of postal and money- 
order blanks, forms, vouchers, accounts, and 
records, and the dies, plates, and engravings 
therefor, with the penalties provided in such 
statutes, are hereby extended and made applica 
ble to postal savings depository business, and the 
forgery, counterfeiting, alteration, improper use 
or handling of postal savings depository blanks, 
forms, vouchers, accounts, and records, and the 
dies, plates, and engravings therefor.