Volume 46
Public Law 71–73
To authorize the Postmaster General to impose fines on steamship and aircraft carriers transporting the mails beyond the borders of the United States for unreasonable and unnecessary delays and for other delinquencies.
Approved January 31, 1931
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the Postmaster General to impose fines on steamship and aircraft carriers transporting the mails beyond the borders of the United States for unreasonable and unnecessary delays and for other delinquencies.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 4010
Foreign Mail Service contracts, etc.
R. S., sec. 4010, p. 774, amended.
U. S. C., p. 1274, amended.
Vol. 45, p. 695.
Fine of contractor, etc., air or water routes, for delay, etc., authorized.
of the Revised Statutes (United States Code, title 39, section 655) is hereby amended to read as follows:
“The Postmaster General may impose or remit fines on contractors or carriers transporting the mails by air or water on routes extending beyond the borders of the United States for any unreasonable or unnecessary delay to such mails and for other delinquencies in the transportation of the mails.”
Approved, January 31, 1931.