Volume 49 · 744
Public Law 74–638
To authorize the Postmaster General to contract for air-mail service in Alaska.
Approved August 24, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Postmaster General to contract for air-mail service in Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled,
That the Act of February 21, 1925 (43 Stat. 960; 39 U. S. C. 488), is amended to read as follows:
Alaska.
Emergency mail service.
“The Postmaster General may provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, at a total annual cost of not exceeding $25,000, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such manner as he may think advisable, without advertising
Air mail, for all classes, authorized.
therefor; and he is authorized, in his discretion, to contract, after advertisement in accordance with law, for the carriage of all classes
Appropriation available.
of mail within the Territory of Alaska, by airplane, payment therefor to be made from the appropriation for star-route service in Alaska.”
Approved, August 24, 1935.