Volume 40
Public Law 65–38
Making appropriations for certain session employees of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Approved July 17, 1917
Statutory text
An Act
Making appropriations for certain session employees of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated:
senate. For sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $2.50 per day each from and including July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, until the close of the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, so much as may be necessary.
house of representatives. For the following employees, from and including July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, until the close of the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress: Forty-six pages, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, one press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each; nine messengers in the post office at the rate of $100 per month each; so much as may be necessary.
Approved, July 17, 1917.