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APPENDIX A
Bracketed
words in ital
ics amended
by the act iof
September 23,
19 14. See
page 146.
Brae k e ted
section in ital
ics amended
by the act of
September 23,
19 14. See
page 146.
Postal _ savings
depository of
fices.
Hours of busi
ness.
amount of deposits made therein, the aggregate
amount of withdrawals therefrom, the number of
depositors in each, the total amount standing to
the credit of all depositors at the conclusion of
the year, the amount of such deposits at interest,
the amount of interest received thereon, the
amount of interest paid thereon, the amount of
deposits surrendered by depositors for bonds is
sued by authority of this act, and the number
and amount of unclaimed deposits. Also the
amount invested in Government securities by the
trustees, the amount of extra expense of the
Post Office Department and the postal service
incident to the operation of the postal savings
depository system, [the amount of work done for
the savings depository system by the Post Office
Department and postal service in the transpor
tation of free mail,] and all other facts which it
may deem pertinent and proper to present.
[Sec. 2. That the Postmaster General is
hereby directed to prepare and issue special
stamps of the necessary denominations for use,
in lieu of penalty or franked envelopes, in the
transmittal of free mail resulting from the ad
ministration of this act.]
Sec. 3. That said board of trustees is hereby
authorized and empowered to designate such
post offices as it may select to be postal savings
depository offices, and each and every post office
so designated by order of said board is hereby
declared to be a postal savings depository office
within the meaning of this act and to be author
ized and required to receive deposits of funds
from the public and to account for and dispose
of the same, according to the provisions of this
act and the regulations made in pursuance there
of. Each postal savings depository office shall
be kept open for the transaction of business dur
ing such hours as the Postmaster General, with