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POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT
SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL 
WASHINGTON
September 15, 1920.

L. B. Lent,
Superintendent of Engineering, Air Mail Service.

Charles I. Stanton,
Superintendent of Operations, Air Mail Service.

Carl Egge,
Superintendent of Mail Transportation, Air Mail Service.

The duties of the Engineering Section, created by the order dated September 14th and effective September 16th, will be:

(a) To design, devise and create improvements of all characters in the planes, equipment and aviation facilities used by the Air Mail Service, for the safer, more effective and more economical operation of Air Mail planes.

This Section shall draw up all specifications, with the necessary drawings. 

The Section shall be under the direct jurisdiction of the Bureau of the Second Assistant Postmaster General.

(b) To direct and supervise the installation of all improvements approved by the Department on any field in the Air Mail Service.

The office of this Section shall be in New York City, and there shall be assigned to it a clerk, a draftsman, and such mechanics as may be needed from time to time, as directed by the head of the Bureau of the Second Assistant Postmaster General.

Otto Praeger 
Second Assistant Postmaster General.