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POSTAL SAVINGS 
is performed through or by the same official, 
either in his capacity as secretary or as agent of 
the board for the performance of certain speci 
fied duties. 2 
Up to June 30,1913, the employees of the cen 
tral office of the postal savings system were paid 
out of a special fund appropriated for “establish 
ing postal savings depositories.” Beginning 
with the fiscal year 1914, however, the clerical po 
sitions in the Division of Postal Savings were 
made statutory, and the expenses of the division 
were made directly chargeable to the annual ap 
propriation for the Post Office Department. At 
the time of the transfer of the postal savings sys 
tem to the Bureau of the Third Assistant Post 
master-General, a committee of Post Office De 
partment officials was appointed for the purpose 
of making a study of the regulations, instructions 
and forms in use by the postal savings system, 
and of recommending changes where they 
thought changes desirable. As a result of the 
committee’s work many changes in procedure 
were drafted, some of the more important of 
which will be noted later. 3 
2 Ann. Rep. 3 Assist. Postmast.-Gen., 1913, p. 28. 
3 Infra, pp. 116-123.