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APPENDIX  A

Annual  report.
Law  governing
other  official
mail  made  applicable ­
  to
postal  savings
matter.

Cost  of  carrying ­
  postal
savings  mail
no  longer  to
be  reported  to
•Congress.

No  extra  compensation ­
  to
postmasters  or
or  postal  employees ­
  for
transacting
g ostal  savings
usiness.

Sec.  2.  That  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of
the  Postmaster  General  to  report  his  action  herein ­
  to  Congress  annually,  with  his  reasons  therefor ­
  in  each  particular  case.
Approved,  January  21,  1914.
AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  THE  ACT  APPROVED  JUNE
TWENTY-FIFTH,  NINETEEN  HUNDRED  AND  TEN,
ENTITLED  “AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  POSTAL  SAVINGS
DEPOSITORIES  FOR  DEPOSITING  SAVINGS  AT  INTEREST ­
  WITH  THE  SECURITY  OF  THE  GOVERNMENT  FOR
REPAYMENT  THEREOF,  AND  FOR  OTHER  PURPOSES.”
Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of
Representatives  of  the  United  States  of  America
in  Congress  assembled,  That  sections  two  and
thirteen  of  the  .  .  .  [postal  savings  act]  be
hereby  amended  to  read  as  follows:
‘‘Sec.  2.  That  provisions  of  section  three  of
the  act  of  July  fifth,  eighteen  hundred  and
eighty-four,  entitled  ‘An  act  making  appropriations ­
  for  the  service  of  the  Post  Office  Department ­
  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,
eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-five,  and  for  other
purposes,’  are  hereby  extended  and  made  applicable ­
  to  all  official  mail  matter  pertaining  to  the
business  of  the  postal  savings  system;  and  hereafter ­
  the  board  of  trustees  for  the  control,  supervision, ­
  and  administration  of  the  postal  savings
depository  system  shall  not  be  required  to  show
in  the  annual  report  prescribed  by  section  one
of  the  act  of  June  twenty-fifth,  nineteen  hundred ­
  and  ten,  establishing  such  system,  the
amount  of  work  done  for  that  system  by  the  Post
Office  Department  and  postal  service  in  the
transportation  of  free  mail.
“Sec.  13.  Postmasters,  assistant  postmasters,
clerks,  or  other  employees  at  post  offices  of  the
presidential  grade,  and  postmasters  at  post  offices ­
  of  the  fourth  class,  shall  not  be  allowed  or