An Act to provide for an additional Assistant Postmaster General in the Post Office Department
PL 83-140 (H.R.5302), enacted 07/20/1953

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"(d) (1) For the purpose of computing pay of officers and mem-
bers of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia for the pay 
period July 1 to July 11,1953, inclusive, any day off taken by any such 
officer or member during the period July 1 to July 4, 1953, inclusive, 
shall be considered as a workday if such officer or member worked or 
was otherwise in a pay status for an equivalent day in the period 
June 28 to June 30, 1953, inclusive: Provided^ That any such day off 
falling on July 4, 1953, shall not entitle any such officer or member to 
additional holiday compensation for that day, 
"(2) For the purpose of this subsection the term 'day off' means 
any of the days off duty in each seven-day period to which each officer 
and member of such Fire Department is entitled pursuant to section 
2 of the Act approved June 19,1948 (62 Stat. 498) but such term does 
not include any 'platoon change day off', as such term is used in such 
Fire Department." 
Approved July 20, 1953. 
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D. C. 
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Public Law 140 
CHAPTER 232 
AN ACT 
To provide for an additional Assistant Postmaster General in the Post Office 
Department. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be 
in the Post Office Department an additional Assistant Postmaster 
General, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such duties as the Post-
master General may designate, and shall receive compensation at the 
rate of $15,000 per annum or at such other rate as may hereafter be 
provided by law for Assistant Postmasters General. 
Approved July 20, 1953. 
July 20. 1953 
[H. R. 5302] 
Public Law 141 
CHAPTER 233 
AN ACT 
To authorize films, and related material, for educational use to be transmitted 
through the mails at the rate provided for books. 
July 20, 1953 
[S. 971] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Repr'esentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 204 (d) 
of the Postal Rate Revision and Federal Employees Salary Act of 
1948 (39 U. S. C, sec. 292a (d)) is amended by inserting "(1)" after 
" ( d ) " and by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"(2) The rate provided in paragraph (1) for books may apply to 
sixteen-millimeter films and sixteen-millimeter film catalogs when 
sent through the mails except when sent to commercial theaters." 
SEC. 2. Section 204 (e) of the Postal Rate Revision and Federal 
Employees Salary Act of 1948 (39 U. S. C, sec. 292a (e)) is amended 
by inserting "(1)" after " ( e ) " and by adding at the end thereof the 
following: 
"(2) The rate provided in paragraph (1) for books may apply to 
sixteen-millimeter 
films, 
filmstrips, 
projected transparencies and 
slides, microfilms, sound recordings, and catalogs of such materials 
when sent to or from (A) schools, colleges, universities, or public 
libraries, and (B) religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic, 
Films, etc. 
Book r a t e post* 
age. 
62 Stat. 1263. 
62 Stat. 1264.