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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  specified ­
  duties. 2
Up  to  June  30,1913,  the  employees  of  the  central ­
  office  of  the  postal  savings  system  were  paid
out  of  a  special  fund  appropriated  for  “establishing ­
  postal  savings  depositories.”  Beginning
with  the  fiscal  year  1914,  however,  the  clerical  positions ­
  in  the  Division  of  Postal  Savings  were
made  statutory,  and  the  expenses  of  the  division
were  made  directly  chargeable  to  the  annual  appropriation ­
  for  the  Post  Office  Department.  At
the  time  of  the  transfer  of  the  postal  savings  system ­
  to  the  Bureau  of  the  Third  Assistant  Postmaster-General, ­
  a  committee  of  Post  Office  Department ­
  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.