Volume 50 · 725
Public Law 75–718
To provide a surcharge on certain air mail carried in Alaska.
Approved August 20, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide a surcharge on certain air mail carried in Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act of
Alaska, air mail.
February 21, 1925, as amended by the Act approved August 24, 1935 (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. II, title 39, sec. 488), be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“The Postmaster General may provide difficult or emergency mail
Emergency service.
service in Alaska, at a total annual cost of not exceeding $25,000, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such
Relay stations.
manner as he may think advisable, without advertising therefor; and he is authorized, in his discretion, to contract, after advertisement
Contract for carriage of mail by airplane authorized.
in accordance with law, for the carriage of all classes of mail to, from, or within the Territory of Alaska, by airplane, payment therefor to be made from the appropriation for star-route service in Alaska: Provided, That the Postmaster General, in his
Proviso.
Rates of postage.
discretion, may fix the postage for the mails carried, or any part thereof, by aircraft to, from, or within Alaska, at rates not exceeding in any case 30 cents per ounce or 15 cents per half ounce, notwithstanding the domestic air-mail rate authorized by the Act of
June 12, 1934 (39 U. S. C., 463, 1934 edition).”
Approved, August 20, 1937.