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APPENDIX  A

Reimbursement ­
  of  Secretary ­
  of  the
Treasury.
Postmaster
General  may
require  postal
employees  to
transact  postal ­
  s  a  V  i  n  g  s
business.

Postmaster
General  may
make  rules
and  regulations ­
  subject
to  approval  of
board  of  trustees. ­


Protective  and
criminal  statutes ­
  made  applicable ­
  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  depositories ­
  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  Postmaster ­
  General  is  authorized  to  require  postmasters ­
  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,  conversion, ­
  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  relating ­
  to  false  returns  of  postal  and  money-order
business,  the  forgery,  counterfeiting,  alteration,
improper  use  or  handling  of  postal  and  moneyorder
  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  applicable ­
  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.