Pay of substitutes. Watchmen, messengers, and laborers. Grades and pay. Proviso. Railway postal clerks. Pay. That the pay of substitute, temporary, or auxiliary clerks at first and second class post offices and substitute letter carriers in the City Delivery Service shall be at the rate of 60 cents per hour. That watchmen, messengers, and laborers in first and second class post offices shall be divided into two grades, as follows: First grade salary, $1,350; second grade salary, $1,450: Provided, That watchmen, messengers, and laborers shall be promoted to the second grade after one year's satisfactory service in the first grade. That railway postal clerks shall be divided into two classes, Class Classes and grades. A and Class B, and into six grades as follows: Grade one-salary, $1,600; grade two-salary, $1,700; grade three-salary, $1,850; grade four-salary, $2,000; grade five salary, $2,150; grade six-salary, $2,300; and laborers in the Railway Mail Service shall be divided into two grades, as follows: Grade one-salary, $1,350; grade two— salary, $1,450. Laborers. Grades and pay. Classification estab lished. Road clerks. For the purpose of organization and establishing maximum grades to which promotions may be made successively, as herein provided, runs now in Class A and all terminal railway post offices and transfer offices shall be placed in Class A, and the remainder in Class B. Road clerks shall be promoted successively to grade three for clerks, Grade promotions. and to grade four for clerks in charge of Class A, and to grade five for clerks and to grade six for clerks in charge of Class B. Terminal and transfer clerks. Terminal railway post office and transfer clerks shall be promoted Grade promotions, successively to grade three for clerks of whom general scheme distribution is not required, and to grade four for clerks of whom general scheme distribution is required, and for clerks in charge to grade five in terminals or tours or crews in terminals consisting of not more than nineteen clerks or in transfer offices or tours in transfer offices of not more than four clerks, and to grade six in terminals or tours or crews in terminals consisting of twenty or more clerks and in transfer offices or tours in transfer offices of five or more clerks. A clerk in charge is defined as a clerk in charge of a railway post office, terminal railway post office, or transfer office whether he performs service alone or has a crew of clerks under his supervision, or of a tour or a crew within a tour of a terminal railway post office or transfer office. Clerk in charge. Clerks at offices of ents, etc. All clerks assigned to the office of division superintendents or chief division superintend- clerks offices shall be promoted successively to grade three, and in the Grade promotions. Office of division superintendent four clerks may be promoted one grade per annum to grade four, four clerks to grade five, and four clerks to grade six, and in the office of chief clerks one clerk may be promoted one grade per annum to grade four, one clerk to grade five, and one clerk to grade six. Examiners and as sistants. Promotions. Laborers. Promotion. Time for promotions. Assignment to new ratings. Substitutes. Examiners shall be promoted successively to grade five and assistant examiners to grade four whether assigned to the office of division. superintendents or chief clerks offices. Laborers shall be promoted to grade two after one year's satisfactory service in grade one. Promotions shall be made successively at the beginning of the quarter following a year's satisfactory service in the next lower grade. In the readjustment of the service to conform to the grades herein provided, grade one shall include clerks in present grade one, grade two shall include clerks in present grades two and three, grade three shall include clerks in present grades four and five, grade four shall include clerks in present grades six and seven, grade five shall include clerks in present grades eight and nine, and grade six shall include clerks in present grade ten. Substitute railway postal clerks shall be paid the salary of grade Service pay and pro- one for service actually performed during the first calendar year of service, which shall constitute his probationary period, when, if his motions. services are satisfactory, unless sooner appointed a regular clerk, he shall be promoted to grade two and paid the salary of that grade for service actually performed until appointed a regular clerk. Day's work desig Service of clerks shall be based on an average of not exceeding nated. eight hours daily for three hundred and six days per annum, including proper allowance for all service required on lay-off periods. Clerks Overtime service. required to perform service in excess of eight hours daily, as herein provided, shall be paid in cash at the annual rate of pay or granted compensatory time at their option for such overtime. Full time when Substitute railway postal clerks shall be credited with full time traveling under orders. while traveling under orders of the department to and from their designated headquarters to take up an assignment, together with actual and necessary travel expenses, not to exceed $2 per day, while on duty away from such headquarters. When a substitute clerk substitutes. performs service in a railway post office starting from his official headquarters he shall be allowed travel expenses under the law applying to clerks regularly assigned to the run. the Travel expenses of Division headquar Grades and pay of Promotions. Substitutes for divi out pay. Pay from lapsed Rural carriers. Pay established. That clerks at division headquarters of post-office inspectors shall ters of inspectors. be divided into six grades, as follows: Grade one-salary, $1,600; clerks at. grade two-salary, $1,700; grade three-salary, $1,850; grade foursalary, $2,000; grade five salary, $2,150; grade six-salary, $2,300; and there shall be one chief clerk at each division headquarters at a salary of $2,600. That clerks at division headquarters shall be promoted successively to grade five at the beginning of the quarter following a year's satisfactory service in the next lower grade, and one clerk at each division headquarters may be promoted to grade six after one year's satisfactory service in grade five. Hereafter when any clerk in the office of division headquarters sion clerks absent within the post-office inspection service is absent from duty from any cause other than leave with pay allowed by law, the Postmaster General, under such regulations as he may prescribe, may authorize the employment of a substitute for such work, and payment therefor salary. from the lapsed salary of such absent clerk at a rate not to exceed pay of the grade of work performed by such substitute. That the compensation of each rural carrier for serving a rural route of twenty-four miles, six days in the week, shall be $1,800; on routes twenty-two miles and less than twenty-four miles, $1,728; on routes twenty miles and less than twenty-two miles, $1,620; on routes eighteen miles and less than twenty miles, $1,440; on routes sixteen miles and less than eighteen miles, $1,260; on routes fourteen miles and less than sixteen miles, $1,080; on routes twelve miles and less than fourteen miles, $1,008; on routes ten miles and less than twelve miles, $936; on routes eight miles and less than ten miles, $864; on routes six miles and less than eight miles, $792; on routes four miles and less than six miles, $720. A rural letter carrier serving Triweekly routes. one triweekly route shall be paid on the basis for a route one-half the length of the route served by him, and a carrier serving two triweekly routes shall be paid on the basis for a route one-half of the combined length of the two routes. Each rural carrier assigned to a horse-drawn vehicle route on which daily service is performed shall receive $30 per mile per annum for each mile said route is in excess of twenty-four miles or major fraction thereof, based on actual mileage. mileage, and each rural carrier assigned to a horse-drawn vehicle route on which triweekly service is performed shall receive $15 per mile for each mile said route is in excess of twenty-four miles or major fraction thereof, based on actual mileage. Deductions for failure to perform service on a standard rural delivery route for twenty-four miles and less shall not exceed the rate of pay per mile for service for twenty-four miles and less; and deductions for failure to perform service on mileage in excess of 154272°-20- 44 Horsedrawn vehicle routes. Allowance for excess Deductions for failure to perform service. Motor vehicle routes. Village delivery service. Third class offices. ances. hire. allow twenty-four miles shall not exceed the rate of compensation allowed for such excess mileage. That the pay of a carrier who furnishes and maintains his own motor vehicle and who serves a route not less than fifty miles in length be at not exceeding $2,600 per annum. That the pay of carriers in the village delivery service, under such rules and regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe, shall be from $1,000 to $1,200 per annum. That no allowance to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services in excess of $450 shall be made where the salary of the postmaster is $1,000, $1,100, or $1,200; nor in excess of $600 where the salary of the postmaster is $1,300, $1,400, or $1,500; nor in excess of $700 where the salary of the postmaster is $1,600, $1,700, or $1,800; nor in excess of $900 where the salary of the postmaster is $1,900 or $2,000; nor in excess of $1,200 where the salary of the postmaster is $2,100 or $2,200: Provided, That the Postmaster GenAssistant postmas-eral may in the disbursement of the appropriation for this purpose and within its limitation provide for the employment at a maximum salary of $900 per annum of assistant postmasters at post offices of the third class where the salary of the postmaster is $2,100 or $2,200 per annum. Proviso. ters. Inspectors. Grades and salaries. That post-office inspectors shall be divided into seven grades, as follows: Grade one-salary, $2,300; grade two-salary, $2,500; grade three-salary, $2,700; grade four-salary, $2,900; grade fivesalary, $3,200; grade six-salary, $3,500; grade seven-salary, $3,700; and there shall be fifteen inspectors in charge at $4,200. Promotions yearly. Inspectors shall be promoted successively to grade five at the beginning of the quarter following a year's satisfactory and efficient service in the next lower grade, and to grade six at the beginning of the quarter following the expiration of one year's meritorious service in grade five, and not to exceed 20 per centum of the force to grade seven for specially meritorious service after not less than one year's service in grade six. The three grades of inspectors without per diem allowance and the three senior grades of field inspectors shall be considered on a parity in readjusting the inspectors to the grades provided. Per diem when away from homes, etc. ice. Ante, p. 574. Railway Mail Serv ents, etc. Inspectors shall be paid their actual expenses not to exceed $5 per day while engaged on official business away from their homes and official domiciles. The appropriation for per diem allowance authorized for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1920, may be utilized for such expenses. That the annual salaries of officials of the Railway Mail Service Pay of superintend- shall be graded in even hundreds of dollars, as follows: Division superintendents at $4,200; assistant division superintendents at $3,200; assistant superintendents at $3,100; assistant superintendent in charge of car construction at $3,000; chief clerks at $3,000; Clerks in charge of assistant chief clerks at $2,500: Provided, That the clerks in charge sections, and of car of sections in the offices of the division superintendents shall be rated as assistant chief clerks at $2,500 salary, and the chief clerk in charge of car construction shall be designated as an assistant superintendent at $3,000 salary per annum. Proviso. construction. Leaves of absence to all employees. That the salary of requisition fillers and packers in the division of equipment and supplies shall be as follows: One foreman, $1,800 per annum; ten requisition fillers and nine packers, each, $1,600 per annum. Employees in the Postal Service shall be granted fifteen days' leave of absence with pay, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, each fiscal Sick leave with pay, year, and sick leave with pay at the rate of ten days a year to be cumulative for a period of three years, but no sick leave with pay in excess of thirty days shall be granted during any three consecutive cumulative. years. Sick leave shall be granted only upon satisfactory evidence of illness and if for more than two days the application therefor shall be accompanied by a physician's certificate. Monthly credit of leaves. Restoration of re The fifteen days' leave shall be credited at the rate of one and one-quarter days for each month of actual service. Whenever an employee herein provided for shall have been re- duced employee duced in salary for any cause, he may be restored to his former grade former grade, etc. or advanced to an intermediate grade at the beginning of any quarter following the reduction, and a restoration to a former grade or advancement to an intermediate grade shall not be construed as a promotion within the meaning of the law prohibiting advancement of more than one grade within one year. to Sundays or holidays. Hereafter when the needs of the service require the employment on Sundays or holidays of foremen, special clerks, clerks, carriers, watch- for employment on. men, messengers, or laborers at first and second class post offices, or of railway postal clerks at terminal railway post offices and transfer offices, they shall be allowed compensatory time within six days next succeeding the Sunday and within thirty days next succeeding the holiday on which service is performed, and that portion of the Act repealed approved July 2, 1918, authorizing the payment for overtime in Vol. 40, p. 745, relieu of compensatory time is hereby repealed. Overtime payments pealed. Promotions after All employees herein provided for in automatic grades, who have completing one year's not reached the maximum grades to which they are entitled to progress satisfactory service. automatically, shall be promoted at the beginning of the quarter following the completion of one year's satisfactory service since their last promotion, regardless of any increases in salaries granted them by the provisions of this Act. Promotions of superollicials. re On and after July 1, 1921, no supervisory official or employee in visory the Postal Service shall be promoted more than $300 during any one stricted. year, except when appointed postmaster, inspector in charge, or Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service. Transfers of clerks The Postmaster General may, when the interest of the service re- and carriers permitted. quires, transfer any clerk to the position of carrier or any carrier to the position of clerk, such transfer to be made to the corresponding grade and salary of the clerk or carrier transferred. Joint postal reclassicommission Ante, p. 583. Increased pay for That the joint commission authorized under section 3 of the Act fication of February 28, 1919, making appropriations for the service of the continued. Post Office Department, be continued until the next regular session of Congress to prepare a detailed report of the investigation. That section 2 of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations, for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes," approved April 24, 1920, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, except in so far as it affects the pay of employees not covered by this Act. 1921, repealed. Ante, p.583, repealed. Ante, p. 574. That the sums appropriated for salaries and compensation of Postal service appropostmasters and employees of the Postal Service in the Act approved able April 24, 1920, shall be available for the payment of salaries and compensation of postmasters and postal employees at the rates of pay herein provided; and such additional sums as may be necessary priation. are hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved, June 5, 1920. CHAP. 255.—An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to R. L. Credille, mayor of the village of Bonita, Louisiana, in trust, for certain purposes. Additional appro June 5, 1920. [S. 3244.] [Public, No. 266.] Bonita, La. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon payment to the United States of $1.25 per acre, the Secretary of the Interior be, and dille, is hereby, authorized to issue patent to R. L. Credille, mayor of the trust, for lands in Louis Patent to R. L. Cremayor of, in iana. Description. Proviso. Time tion, etc. village of Bonita, Louisiana, for the south half of the southwest quarter, section five, township twenty-two north, range eight east, Louisiana meridian, situated in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, in trust for the use and benefit of the persons, estates, firms, or corporations now claiming said lands or parts thereof under or by virtue of titles derived from or through the State of Louisiana or its grantee, L. S. Neighbours, of which said lands the present claimants and their grantors have had the actual possession as owners, by virtue of titles derived from said State and its grantee for more than thirty years: for applica- Provided, That application for the purchase of the said described tract of land under this authorization shall be filed at the United States land office at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, within sixty days from the passage and approval of this Act. Title, etc., conveyed. The true intent of this Act is hereby declared to be to concede and abandon all right, title, and interest of the United States to those persons, estates, firms, or corporations who would be the true and lawful owners of said lands or parts thereof under the laws of Louisiana, including the laws of prescription, in the absence of said interest, title, and estate of the United States. Approved, June 5, 1920. June 5, 1920. [S. 3270.] [Public, No. 267.] Survey. by acts of, to be ad tendent. CHAP. 256.-An Act Authorizing the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine claims for damages occasioned by acts for which said survey is responsible in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Coast and Geodetic States of America in Congress assembled, That the Superintendent of Claims for damages the Coast and Geodetic Survey, subject to the approval of the Secrejusted by Superin- tary of Commerce, is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine all claims for damages, where the amount of the claim Report to Congress. does not exceed $500, hereafter occasioned by acts for which the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be found to be responsible, and report the amounts so ascertained and determined to be due the claimants to Congress at each session thereof through the Treasury Department for payment as legal claims out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor. Approved, June 5, 1920. CHAP. 257.-An Act For the relief of the Garden City (Kansas) Water Users' Association, 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 contracts affecting lands in the Garden City project of the Reclamation Service in Finney County, Kansas, heretofore entered into between the Finney County Water Users' Association of Finney County, Kansas, or with individual landowners, and the Secretary of the Interior for the supply and use of water from the irrigation plant of the United States be, and the same are hereby, canceled and relieved; and the liens upon the lands in said county created by such contracts are hereby released and discharged. Approved, June 5, 1920. |