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APPENDIX  A
Auditor  for  the  Post  Office  Department:  And
provided  further,  That  the  Postmaster  General
shall  select  and  designate  the  post  offices  which
are  to  be  postal  savings  depository  offices,  and
shall  appoint  and  fix  the  compensation  of  such
superintendents,  inspectors,  and  other  employees
as  may  be  necessary  in  conducting,  supervising,
and  directing  the  business  of  such  offices,  including ­
  the  employees  of  a  central  office  at  Washington, ­
  District  of  Columbia,  and  shall  prescribe  the
hours  during  which  postal  savings  depository  offices ­
  shall  remain  open.  He  shall  also  from  time
to  time  make  rules  and  regulations  with  respert  to
the  deposits  in  and  withdrawals  of  moneys  from
postal  savings  depositories  and  the  issue  of  pass
books  or  such  other  devices  as  he  may  adopt  as
evidence  of  such  deposits  or  withdrawals.  The
provisions  of  the  act  approved  June  twenty-fifth,
nineteen  hundred  and  ten,  are  hereby  modified
accordingly.
*  "  *  *  *  *  *  ‘  *
Approved,  August  24,  1912.
AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  THE  ACT  APPROVED  MAY
NINTH,  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND  EIGHTY-EIGHT,
AS  AMENDED  BY  THE  ACT  OF  JUNE  ELEVENTH,
EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND  NINETY-SIX.
Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of
Representatives  of  the  United  States  of  America ­
  in  Congress  assembled,  That  the  act  authorizing ­
  the  Postmaster  General  to  adjust  certain
claims  of  postmasters  for  loss  by  burglary,  fire,
or  other  unavoidable  casualty,  approved  May
ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-eight,  as
amended  by  the  act  of  June  eleventh,  eighteen
hundred  and  ninety-six,  be,  and  the  same  is
vestfgate t0 and  hereby,  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows  :
pay  claims  “That  the  Postmaster  General  be,  and  he  is
casualty. 63  by  hereby,  authorized  to  investigate  all  claims  of

Postmaster
General  :
To  designate
offices.
To  make  appointments. ­


To  prescribe
(hours  of  busi-To

  make  regulations ­
  as  to
deposits  and
withdrawals.

Act  of  June
25,  19  1  0,
amended.

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