Volume 49
Public Law 74–493
To provide for the appointment of substitute postal employees, and for other purposes.
Approved June 4, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the appointment of substitute postal employees, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the ratio of classified substitute railway postal clerks, classified substitute post-office clerks, classified substitute city letter carriers, classified substitute village letter carriers, classified substitute laborers, watchmen, and messengers, and classified substitutes in the Motor Vehicle Service, to regular railway postal clerks, post-office clerks, city letter carriers, village letter carriers, laborers, watchmen, and messengers, and employees of the Motor Vehicle Service, shall be not more than one classified substitute to six regular employees, or fraction thereof, respectively, except that in offices having fewer than six regular employees there may be one substitute clerk and one substitute carrier,
Proviso.
Excess of present ratios.
and one substitute in the Motor Vehicle Service: Provided, That where the ratio of substitutes is now in excess of these ratios, no additional classified substitutes shall be appointed until these ratios
No classified substitute to be furloughed, etc.
are established: Provided further, That the provisions of this Act shall not operate to furlough or dismiss (1) any classified substitute railway postal clerks, post-office clerks, city letter carriers, village letter carriers, or laborers, watchmen, or messengers; or (2) any classified substitutes in the Motor Vehicle Service.
Approved, June 4, 1936.