Volume 48
Public Law 73–550
To compensate the Post Office Department for the extra work caused by the payment of money orders at offices other than those on which the orders are drawn.
Approved June 16, 1934
Statutory text
AN ACT
To compensate the Post Office Department for the extra work caused by the payment of money orders at offices other than those on which the orders are drawn.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act
Postal service.
Postal money orders.
Vol 38, p. 280: U.S.C., p. 1279.
entitled “An Act tn regulate the payment of postal money orders ”, approved February 6, 1914 (38 Stat. 280; U.S.C., title 39, sec. 727), is amended to read as follows:
“ That under such rules and regulations as the Postmaster General
Payment at offices other than those on which drawn.
shall prescribe postal money orders may be issued payable at any money-order post office, and on and after the date upon which such rules and regulations become effective all money orders shall be legally payable at any money-order post office, although drawn on a specified office; and as compensation for the extra labor involved in paying a money order at an office other than that on which the order is drawn the Postmaster General is authorized to exact a fee
Fee.
of the same amount as that charged for the issue of the order; and that all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.”
Approved, June 16, 1934.