§ For the purpose of enabling the company to prepare and conduct its claim for purchase money under the provisions of the purchase agreements, and to enter into agreements with the Postmaster-General, and to discharge the liabilities of the company, and generally to carry on the business of the company, and to wind up its affairs and dissolve the company, the company may, after the thirty-first day of December nineteen hundred and eleven, temporarily retain for their own use the services of such officers as they 2132 may select, to such reasonable number, for such time, and on such conditions as may be approved by the Postmaster-General; but the officers so temporarily retained shall be deemed nevertheless for the purposes of the provisions of this Act in relation to the company's officers to have become officers of the Postmaster-General as from the said thirty-first day of December nineteen hundred and eleven.
§ Amendments made: Leave out the word "its" (1) ["its claim for purchase"] and (2) ["its affairs"], and to insert instead thereof, in each case, the word "their."