Volume 44
Public Law 69–284
Authorizing the Postmaster General to remit or change deductions or fines imposed upon contractors for mail service.
Approved May 11, 1926
Statutory text
An Act
Authorizing the Postmaster General to remit or change deductions or fines imposed upon contractors for mail service.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 266 of the Act of June 8, 1872, chapter 335 (Seventeenth Statutes, page 315), Revised Statutes 3962, is amended to read as follows: The
Mail contractors.
Deductions from pay for failure to perform service may be remitted.
Postmaster General may make deductions from the pay of contractors for failure to perform service according to contract and impose fines upon them for other delinquencies, which deductions or fines may be changed or remitted, in his discretion. He may
Deductions if trip not performed.
deduct the price of the trip in all cases where the trip is not performed and not exceeding three times the price if the failure be occasioned by the fault of the contractor or carrier.
Approved, May 11, 1926.