Volume 53
Public Law 76–352
To provide for additional clerk hire in the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.
Approved July 25, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for additional clerk hire in the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Congressional employees.
Additional clerk hire, Members of Congress, etc.
Post, p. 1301.
That the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for pay to clerks to Members of Congress and Delegates”, approved January 25, 1923 (U. S. C., title 2, sec. 92), is amended by striking out “to one or two persons” and inserting in lieu thereof “to one, two, or three persons”.
Sec. 2.
Legislative Pay Act of 1929, amendments.
2 U. S. C. § 60a, Supp. IV, § 60a.
Existing resolution repealed.
Section 1 of the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 (U. S. C., title 2, sec. 60 (a)), is amended by adding two new paragraphs under the caption “Clerical Assistance to Senators”, as follows:
“Ninety-six additional clerks at $1,800 each, one for each Senator, in lieu of the assistant clerks now authorized by S. Res. 144, agreed to August 15, 1935, which resolution is hereby repealed as of January 1, 1940.
Additional clerical assistance to Senators.
“Each Senator shall have one additional clerk at $1,500 per annum, and in addition thereto each Senator from any State which has a population of three million or more inhabitants shall be entitled, in addition to the one clerical assistant provided for in this paragraph, to one additional clerk at the rate of $1,500 per annum.”
Sec. 3.
Post, p. 1301.
Clerk hire, Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.
Proviso.
Maximum salary.
Effective date.
Section 2 of the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 (U. S. C., title 2, sec. 60 (b)) is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 2.
The clerk hire of each Member, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner shall be at the rate of $6,500 per annum and shall be paid in accordance with the joint resolution of January 25, 1923, as amended: Provided, That no person shall receive a salary from such clerk hire at a rate in excess of $3,900 per annum.”
Sec. 4.
This Act shall become effective on January 1, 1940.
Approved, July 25, 1939.