REIMBURSING THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF OFFICIAL GOVERNMENTMAIL MATTER MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1956 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in room 213, Old House Office Building, Hon. Hugh G. Álexander, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Mr. ALEXANDER. The committee will come to order. I am sure all of you gentlemen are busy and in a hurry so we will proceed. This subcommittee was appointed to consider H. R. 9562, a bill to amend the act entitled "An act to reimburse the Post Office Department for the transmission of official Government-mail matter" approved August 15, 1953 (67 Stat. 614), and for other purposes. (H. R. 9562 is as follows:) [H. R. 9562, 84th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Act entitled "An Act to reimburse the Post Office Department for the transmission of official Government-mail matter", approved August 15, 1953 (67 Stat. 614), and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to reimburse the Post Office Department of the transmission of official Government-mail matter", approved August 15, 1953 (67 Stat. 614), is amended by the addition of sections 3 and 4 to read as follows: "SEC. 3. There shall be paid to the Post Office Department, as postal revenue, out of the respective appropriations or funds available to the departments, agencies, establishments, Government corporations, and all other organizations and persons concerned, the equivalent amount of postage or registry fees, as determined pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Postmaster General for matter sent in the mails without prepayment of postage, or without prepayment of registry fees, by the department, agency, establishment, Government corporation, organization, or person concerned, for which the Post Office Department otherwise does not receive compensation, under authority of the following laws: "(1) Section 3932 of the Revised Statutes (39 U. S. C. 385); "(2) That part of section 3 of the Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for other purposes', approved July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. 158), as amended by section 2 of the Act entitled 'An Act authorizing the Postmaster General to establish a uniform system of registration of mail matter, and for other purposes', approved May 1, 1928 (45 Stat. 469), and codified in section 321a of title 39, United States Code; "(3) Section 10 of title 13, United States Code (section 1, ch. 1158, 68 Stat. 1012, 1014); "(4) The first and second provisos of section 306 of title III of the Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, and for other purposes', approved June 25, 1948 (62 Stat. 1049; 39 U. S. C. 321n); and |