Volume 52 · 6

Public Law 75–9

To permit the further extension of the Air Mail Service.

Approved January 14, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

To permit the further extension of the Air Mail Service.

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

That the first sentence of subsection (f) of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to revise air-mail laws, and to establish a commission to make a report to the Congress recommending an aviation policy”, approved June 12, 1934, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. II, title 39, sec. 469a (f)), is amended to read as follows:

“(f)
The Postmaster General shall not award contracts for air-mail routes or extend such routes in excess of an aggregate of thirty-five thousand miles, and shall not pay for air-mail transportation on such routes and extensions in excess of an annual aggregate of fifty-two million airplane-miles.”
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Approved, January 14, 1938.