t 142 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.