Volume 72
Public Law 85–893
To amend that part of the Act of June 9, 1896 (29 Stat. 313), relating to the establishment of postal stations and branch post offices, so as to permit them to be established within ten miles of the boundary of the adjoining city.
Approved September 2, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend that part of the Act of June 9, 1896 (29 Stat. 313), relating to the establishment of postal stations and branch post offices, so as to permit them to be established within ten miles of the boundary of the adjoining city.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the third proviso in the first paragraph under the heading “Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General” in the Act of June 9, 1896 (29 Stat. 313; 39 U. S. C. 160), is hereby amended by striking out “five miles”, and by inserting, in lieu thereof, “ten miles”.
Sec. 2.
Section 215 of the Postal Rate Increase Act, 1958, is amended
Ante, p. 143.
by striking out “205 (5),” in subsection (b) and by adding at the end of such section a new subsection as follows:
“(g) The provisions of section 205 (5) of this title shall become
Effective date.
effective on May 1, 1959.”
Approved September 2, 1958.