(H. G. Skidmore
 PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
 (Consolidated Rail Corporation
 ( (Former Penn Central Transportation Company)

 STATEMENT OF CLAIM: I claim, for identification purposes only,
 that the rights, rules, privileges and fringe
 benefits of my employment by and thru certain acts and actions of the
 Penn Central Transportation Company, the Penn Central Company and or
 others during the handling and otherwise of my complaints related to:



OPINION OF BOARD: The claims submitted to the Third Division in this
 case involve reimbursement for time and travel
 expenses which Claimant incurred while handling earlier cases before this
 Division, Awards 19454 and 19524, plus a dispute for restoration of pass
 privileges on the Hudson and Harlem Divisions, on the former New York
 Central Railroad.

 These claims were handled with the Director-Labor Relations and denied by letters dated February 5 and 6, 1973. The notice to the Board was dated December 30, 1975, or approximately thirty-five months later. Rule 7-B-1 of the applicable agreement requires that claims and grievances shall be barred unless filed within one year from the date of the highest officer's decision. It is clear from the foregoing that the said claims were not handled in compliance with the rule of the collectively bargained agreement and must be dismissed.

 FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving
 the parties to this dispute due notice of hearing there
 on, and upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds andholds:
 I
 That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

 That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and


        The Agreement was not violated.


                    A W A R D


        Claim dismissed.


                        NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                        By Order of Third Division


ATTEST:
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of September 1977.

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 OCT 2 7 1977

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