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Public Law 75–224

To protect the salaries of rural letter carriers who transfer from one rural route to another.

Approved May 16, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

To protect the salaries of rural letter carriers who transfer from one rural route to another.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That effective as of

Postal Service.

Rural letter carriers.

July 1, 1934, subsection (d) of the first section of the Act entitled “An Act to adjust the salaries of rural letter carriers, and for other

48 Stat. 1213.

39 U. S. C. § 197a.

purposes”, approved June 25, 1934, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence to read as follows: “Should any such

Protection of salaries upon transfer to other routes.

carrier be transferred to another route or other routes, the salary which he was receiving on June 30, 1934, shall be protected to the same extent as such salary would, under the preceding sentence, have been protected had such carrier continued to serve the route or routes from which he was transferred and had the length of such route or routes been changed to correspond to that of such other route or routes.”

Approved, May 16, 1938.

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