Volume 50
Public Law 75–122
For payment of compensation to persons serving as postmaster at third- and fourth-class post offices.
Approved April 22, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
For payment of compensation to persons serving as postmaster at third- and fourth-class post offices.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the proviso,
Postmasters, third- or fourth-class post offices.
Compensation for ad interim service.
following the appropriation for compensation to postmasters, contained in the Act approved March 1, 1921 (41 Stat., p. 1151; U. S. C., title 39, sec. 39), is hereby amended by adding after the words “unnecessary delay” at the end thereof the following: “A person who, upon the occurrence of a vacancy and pending the appointment of a postmaster or the designation of an acting postmaster, assumes and properly performs the duties of postmaster at any third- or fourth-class post office shall be allowed compensation as postmaster for the period of such service: Provided, That the Comptroller General of
Proviso.
Payment for service rendered since June 1930.
the United States, in the settlement, and adjustment of accounts and claims for compensation for service heretofore rendered, but subsequent to June 30, 1930, is hereby authorized and directed to allow compensation as postmaster for service rendered under the circumstances and conditions hereinbefore prescribed. ”
Approved, April 22, 1937.