Public Law 79–189

Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1946.

Post, pp. 412, 413, 632, 633.

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, namely:

SENATE salaries and mileage of senators For compensation of Senators, $960,000. For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, $51,000. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: office of the vice president For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $15,000. Salaries: For clerical assistance to the Vice President, at rates of compensation to be fixed by him, $15,420. chaplain Chaplain of the Senate, $1,680. office of the secretary Salaries: Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $8,000; Chief Clerk, who shall perform the duties of reading clerk, $5,500 and $1,500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; financial clerk, $5,000 and $2,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant financial clerk, $4,500; Parliamentarian, $5,000 and $1,500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; Journal clerk, $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; principal clerk, $4,000; legislative clerk, $4,000 and $1,500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; enrolling clerk, $4,000; printing clerk, $3,540 and $460 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; chief bookkeeper, $3,600 and $600 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; librarian, $3,600; executive clerk, $3,180 and $420 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; first assistant librarian, $3,120; keeper of stationery, $3,320; clerks—one at $3,900, one at $3,600 and $500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, one at $3,360, one at $3,180, one at $2,880 and $540 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, two at $2,880 each, three at $2,640 each, clerk in disbursing office, $2,400, one at $2,400 and $300 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, five at $2,400 each, three at $1,860 each, three at $1,740 each; additional clerical assistance and readjustment of salaries in the disbursing office, $4,020; two assistants in library at $1,800 each; special officer, $2,460; night watchman, $1,920, in lieu of night watch-man provided by S. Res. 471, agreed to February 28, 1931; assistants at the press door—one at $2,200, one at $1,900; messenger, $1,320; laborers—one at $2,040, one at $1,680, five at $1,500 each, one at $1,440, one in Secretary’s office, $1,740, one $1,620, one $1,320; in all, $167,640. document room Salaries: Superintendent, $3,960 and $1,040 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; first assistant, $2,640; second assistant, $2,040; four assistants, at $2,040 each; skilled laborer, $1,440; in all; $19,280. committee employees Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Agriculture and Forestry—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Appropriations—clerk, $7,000, and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $5,000 and $1,500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $4,800; assistant clerk, $3,600 for the office of the ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations, to be appointed by him; three assistant clerks at $3,000 each; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each; messenger, $1,800. To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Banking and Currency—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerical assistance at rates of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $6,000. Civil Service—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,180; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Claims—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,600; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Commerce—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Conference Majority of the Senate—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerical assistance at rates of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $6,000. Conference Minority of the Senate—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerical assistance at rates of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $6,000. District of Columbia—clerk, $3,900; two assistant clerks at $2,880 each; assistant clerk, $2,220; two additional clerks at $1,800 each; additional clerical assistance at rates of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $6,000. Education and Labor—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; two additional clerks at $1,800 each. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; assistant clerk, $1,800; additional clerk, $1,800. Expenditures in the Executive Departments—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,600; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; two additional clerks at $1,800 each. Finance—clerk, $4,200 and $500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; special assistant to the committee, $3,600; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,700; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each; two experts (one for the majority and one for the minority) at $3,600 each; messenger, $1,800. Foreign Relations—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,600; assistant clerk, $3,000; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800; messenger, $1,800. Immigration— clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; two additional clerks at $1,800 each. Indian Affairs— clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,600 and $1,400 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Interoceanic Canals—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; assistant clerk, $2,040; additional clerk, $1,800. Interstate Commerce—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,600; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220. Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; two additional clerks at $1,800 each. Judiciary— clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220. Library—clerk, $3,900; two assistant clerks at $2,400 each; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Manufactures—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; assistant clerk, $2,040; additional clerk, $1,800. Military Affairs—clerk, $3,900; special assistant, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Mines and Mining—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; two assistant clerks at $1,800 each; two additional clerks at $1,800 each. Naval Affairs—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400 j two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Patents—clerk, $3,900; two assistant clerks at $2,400 each; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Pensions—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; four assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,520; three assistant clerks at $2,220 each; additional clerk, $1,800. Printing—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Privileges and Elections—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each; additional clerk, $1,800. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; assistant clerk, $2,000; assistant clerk, $1,800; additional clerk, $1,800. Public Lands and Surveys—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $1,800 and $1,500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Rules—clerk, $3,900 and $200 toward the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual under the direction of the Committee on Rules; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Special Committee on Conservation of Wildlife Resources—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $1,800. Territories and Insular Affairs—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each; two assistant clerks at $2,000 each; additional clerk, $1,800; in all, $587,800. clerical assistance to senators Clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specially provided for herein, as follows: Seventy clerks at $3,900 each; seventy assistant clerks at $2,400 each; and seventy assistant clerks at $2,220 each; seventy additional clerks at $1,800 each, one for each Senator having no more than one clerk and two assistant clerks for himself or for the committee of which he is chairman; messenger, $1,800; in all, $724,200. Ninety-six additional clerks at $1,800 per annum each, one for each Senator, $172,800. Ninety-six additional clerks at $1,800 per annum each, one for each Senator, $172,800. Thirty additional clerks at $1,500 per annum each, one for each Senator from each State which has a population of three million or more inhabitants, $45,000. For three additional clerks at $1,500 per annum each for each Senator from any State which has a population of ten million or more inhabitants, $18,000; for two additional clerks at $1,500 per annum each for each Senator from any State which has a population of five million or more inhabitants but less than ten million, $30,000, in all, $48,000: Provided, That such additional clerks shall be in addition to any other clerical assistance to which Senators are entitled, and shall be employed only during the period of the emergency. For an additional amount for clerical assistance to Senators (including chairmen of standing committees) at the rate of $5,040 per annum for each Senator, $483,840. Senators and chairmen of standing committees may change the number of employees in their respective offices or committees, and may rearrange the schedule of basic salaries of such employees in multiples of $5 per month: Provided, That such changes and rearrangements shall not increase the aggregate of the salaries provided for such offices or committees by law or Senate resolution: Provided further, That no salary shall be fixed under this paragraph at a rate in excess of $5,040 per annum, and no action shall be taken to reduce any salary which is specifically fixed by law at a rate higher than $5,040 per annum: Provided further, That Senators and committee chairmen, before the day on which they are to become effective, shall certify in writing such changes or rearrangements to the disbursing office of the Senate which thereafter shall pay such employees in accordance with such certifications. Notwithstanding the provisions of the third paragraph under the heading “Clerical assistance to Senators” of section 1 of the Legislative Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928 (2 U. S. C. 92a), in the case of the death of a Senator during his term of office, his clerical assistants on the pay roll of the Senate on the date of such death shall be continued on such pay roll at their respective salaries for a period of not to exceed sixty days: Provided, That any such clerical assistants continued on the pay roll shall, while so continued, perform their duties under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, and he is hereby authorized and directed to remove from such pay roll any such clerks who are not attending to the duties for which their services are continued: Provided further, That this shall not apply to clerical assistants of standing committees of the Senate when their service otherwise would continue beyond such period. In all, clerical assistance to Senators, $1,646,640: Provided, That all clerks, assistants clerks, and additional clerks under this heading shall be ex officio clerks, assistant clerks, and additional clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman. office of sergeant at arms and doorkeeper Salaries: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $8,000; two secretaries (one for the majority and one for the minority), at $5,400 each and $1,500 additional each so long as the respective positions are held by the present respective incumbents; two assistant secretaries (one for the majority and one for the minority), at $4,320 each and $480 additional each so long as the respective positions are held by the present respective incumbents; Deputy Sergeant at Arms and storekeeper, $4,800 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; clerks—one $3,300, one $3,120, one $2,200, one $2,120, one $1,800, one to the secretary for the majority, $2,640, one to the secretary for the minority, $2,640; assistant doorkeeper, $2,880; messengers—three (acting as assistant doorkeepers) at $2,400 each; thirty (including four for minority) at $1,740 each; four at $1,620 each; one at card door, $2,640, and $240 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record to be selected by the Official Reporters, $3,360; cabinetmakers—chief, $2,780; one, $2,300; one, $2,220; finisher, $2,300; upholsterer, $2,220; janitor, $2,400 and $300 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; five skilled laborers, $1,680 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $1,800 and $120 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; four female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms, at $1,560 each; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms, Senate Office Building, at $1,560 each; telephone operators—chief, $3,000; assistant chief, $2,400; thirteen at $1,800 each; longevity pay of operators as authorized by Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-ninth Congress, $1,350; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $1,260; pre’ss gallery—superintendent, $3,660; assistant superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent, $1,920; messengers for service to press correspondents—two at $1,620 each, two at $1,500 each; radio press gallery—superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent, $1,960; laborers—two at $1,500 each, one at $1,380, twenty-six at $1,320 each, three at $540 each; special employees—seven at $1,000 each; twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $5 per day each, during the session, $19,005; in all, $283,295. Capitol Police force under the Sergeant at Arms: Captain, $3,000; two lieutenants at $2,000 each; two special officers at $2,000 each; four sergeants at $1,920 each; fifty-five privates at $1,800 each; in all, $117,680. post office Salaries: Postmaster, $3,600; assistant postmaster, $2,880; chief clerk, $2,460; wagon master, $2,280; assistant, $1,740; twenty-six mail carriers at $1,740 each; in all, $58,200. folding room Salaries: Foreman, $2,460 and $540 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; clerks—one at $2,400, two at $1,740 each; folders—chief, $2,040; thirteen at $1,440 each; in all, $29,640. contingent expenses of the senate Vice President’s automobile: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President, $4,000. Reporting Senate proceedings: For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $65,450. Furniture: For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000. Furniture: For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, and for the purchase of furniture, $8,000. Inquiries and investigations: For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, $150,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926, as amended. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: For payment of one-half of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation as authorized by law, $35,500. Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $18,000. For materials for folding, $1,500. Fuel, and so forth: For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $2,000. Senate restaurants: For payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with the Act approved September 9, 1942 (Public Law 709, Seventy-seventh Congress), $35,000. Motor vehicles: For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $8,760. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $401,762. Packing boxes: For packing boxes, $970. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $350; office of Sergeant at Arms, $150; in all, $500. Air-mail and special-delivery stamps: For air-mail and special-delivery stamps for Senators and the President of the Senate as authorized by law, $10,249.66, and the maximum allowance per capita of $96.66 is increased to $105.66 for the fiscal year 1946 and thereafter. The Committee on Appropriations, authorized by Senate Resolution Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, to employ expert and clerical assistance for the purpose of obtaining and laying factual data and information before the committee for its consideration in the discharge of its functions, hereby is authorized to expend from the contingent fund of the Senate, during the fiscal year 1946, $50,000 in pursuance of the purposes set forth m said resolution: Provided, That whenever any person has left or leaves any civilian position in any department or agency in the executive branch of the Government in order to accept employment by the Senate Committee on Appropriations, he shall be carried on the rolls of such committee and shall be solely employed by such committee, and responsible only to it; but he shall be entitled upon making application to the Civil Service Commission within thirty days after the termination of his employment by such committee (unless such employment is terminated for cause) to be restored to a position in the same or any other department or agency where an opening exists, comparable to the position which, according to the records of the department or agency which he left to accept employment by the Senate Committee on Appropriations or in the judgment of the Civil Service Commission, such person would be occupying if he had remained in the employ of such department or agency during the time he was employed by such committee; and such person shall be restored to such position with the same seniority, status, and pay as if he had remained in the employ of the department or agency which he left, during such time. This section shall not be construed to require any person to be restored to a position in any department or agency after the expiration of the time for which he was appointed to the position which he left to accept employment by such committee. There shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, toll charges on not to exceed twenty-six strictly official long-distance telephone calls, aggregating per month for each Senator not more than one hundred and thirty minutes, to and from Washington, District of Columbia. There shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, toll charges on strictly official long-distance telephone calls originating and determining outside of Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $300 per year for each Senator. Stationery: For stationery for Senators and for the President of the Senate, including $7,500 for stationery for committees and offices of the Senate, $46,300: Provided, That commencing with the fiscal year 1946 the allowance for stationery for each Senator and for the President of the Senate shall be $400 per annum. Rent: For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $2,000.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES members, delegates, and resident commissioner For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, $4,385,000. For mileage of Representatives, the Delegate from Hawaii and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and for expenses of the Delegate from Alaska, $171,000. There shall be paid to each Representative and Delegate, and to the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, after January 2, 1945, an expense allowance of $2,500 per annum to assist in defraying expenses related to or resulting from the discharge of his official duties, to be paid in equal monthly installments. For making such payments through June 30, 1946, $1,642,500, of which so much as is required to make such payments for the period from January 3, 1945, to June 30, 1945, both inclusive, shall be immediately available. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: office of the speaker Salaries: Secretary to the Speaker, $4,620; three clerks to the Speaker, at $2,400 each; messenger to Speaker, $1,680; in all, $13,500. the speaker’s table Salaries: Parliamentarian $5,000, and $2,500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; Assistant Parliamentarian, $3,000 and $1,500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; messenger to Speaker’s table, $1,740; in all, $14,740. chaplain Chaplain of the House of Representatives, $1,680, and $820 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. office of the clerk Salaries: Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $8,000; Journal clerk, two reading clerks, and tally clerk, at $7,000 each; assistant reading clerk, $5,000, to continue available, under the limitations of House Resolution 95, adopted January 18, 1945; enrolling clerk $4,000; disbursing clerk, $3,960 and $2,040 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; file clerk, $3,780; chief bill clerk, $3,540; assistant enrolling clerk, $3,900 and $500 additional as assistant to the Clerk of the House of Representatives; assistant tally clerk, $5,000; assistant to disbursing clerk, $3,120; stationery clerk, $2,880; librarian, $2,760; assistant librarian and assistant file clerk, at $2,520 each; assistant Journal clerk and assistant librarian, at $2,460 each; clerks—one at $2,460, four at $2,340 each; bookkeeper and assistant in disbursing office at $2,160 each; assistant in disbursing office, $1,800; additional clerical assistance in disbursing office in accordance with the provisions of House Resolutions Numbered 585, 390, and 679, adopted December 16, 1942, December 20, 1943, and December 14, 1944, respectively, $15,000; three assistants to chief bill clerk at $2,100 each; stenographer to the Clerk, $2,500; assistant in stationery room, $1,740; three messengers at $1,680 each; stenographer to Journal clerk, $1,560; laborers—three at $1,440 each, ten at $1,260 each; telephone operators—assistant chief, $2,400, twenty-three at $1,800 each; longevity pay of operators as authorized by Public Law 2, Seventy-ninth Congress, $2,010; operators and extra services of regular employees, when required, at the rate of not to exceed $135 per month each, $1,620; property custodian and superintendent of furniture and repair shop, who shall be a skilled cabinetmaker or upholsterer and experienced in the construction and purchase of furniture, $3,960; two assistant custodians at $3,360 each; locksmith and typewriter repairer, $1,860; messenger and clock repairer, $1,740; operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles, $1,200; in all, $216,350. committee employees Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees: Accounts—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,560. Agriculture—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,560. Appropriations—clerk, $8,000; assistant clerks and other personal services at rates to be fixed by resolution of the committee and certified to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, $48,740, and in addition, the unexpended balance for such purpose for the fiscal year 1945 is continued available during fiscal year 1946; twelve clerk-stenographers at the annual rate of $1,800 each, one for each subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations having jurisdiction over a regular annual appropriation bill as shall be designated by the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and to be appointed by the chairmen of the subcommittees so designated, subject to the approval of the chairman, and one for the office of the ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations, to be appointed by him, $23,400, of which $1,800 shall be immediately available. Banking and Currency—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Census—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Civil Service—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; assistant clerk, $1,800; janitor, $1,260. Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Disposition of Executive Papers—clerk, $2,760. District of Columbia—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,260. Education—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Election of the President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk, $2,760. Elections Numbered 1—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Elections Numbered 2—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Elections Numbered 3—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Expenditure in the Executive Departments—clerk, $3,300; janitor, $1,260. Flood Control—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Foreign Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,260. Immigration and Naturalization—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,400; janitor, $1,260. Indian Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,260. Insular Affairs—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk, $3,900 and $600 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; additional clerk, $2,640; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Irrigation and Reclamation-clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Invalid Pensions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,880; expert examiner, $2,700; stenographer, $2,640; janitor, $1,500. Judiciary—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,460; assistant clerk, $1,980; janitor, $1,560. Labor—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Library—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Military Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Mines and Mining—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Naval Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Patents—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,260. Pensions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,160; janitor,. $1,260. Post Office and Post Roads—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Printing—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,560. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Public Lands—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,(40; janitor, $1,260. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,300; janitor, $1,260. Rivers and Harbors—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor,. $1,560. Roads—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Rules—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; clerk-stenographer, $1,800; janitor, $1,260. Territories—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260.Un-American Activities—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,640; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. War Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Ways and Means—clerk, $4,620; assistant clerk, $3,000; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,640; assistant clerk, $2,580; clerk for minority, $3,180; janitors—one, $1,560; two at $1,260 each. World War Veterans’ Legislation—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; for an additional amount for clerks of the committees pursuant to the Act of December 20, 1944 (Public, 512), $22,880; in all, $390,960. office of sergeant at arms Salaries: Sergeant at Arms, $8,000; Deputy Sergeant at Arms in charge of mace, $3,180; cashier, $6,000; assistant cashier, $4,000; two bookkeepers at $3,360 each; Deputy Sergeant at Arms m charge of pairs, $3,600; special assistant to Sergeant at Arms, $2,400; pair clerk and messenger, $2,820; stenographer, $2,500; skilled laborer, $1,380; hire of automobile, $600; in all, $41,200. Capitol Police force under the Sergeant at Arms: Three lieutenants at $1,740 each; five sergeants at $1,680 each; sixty privates at $1,620 each; in all, $110,820. office of doorkeeper Salaries: Doorkeeper, $6,000; special employee, $3,000; superintendent of House Press Gallery, $3,660; assistants to the superintendent of the House Press Gallery—one at $3,000, and one at $2,220; House Radio Press Gallery—superintendent of radio room at $2,700; messenger at $1,560; chief janitor, $2,700 and $300 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; messengers—one chief messenger, $2,240 and $300 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, sixteen messengers at $1,740 each, fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,740 each; laborers—seventeen at $1,260 each, two (cloakroom) at $1,380 each, one (cloakroom), $1,260, and seven (cloakroom) at $1,140 each; three female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $1,680 each, attendant for the ladies’ reception room, $1,440; superintendent of folding room, $3,180 and $820 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; foreman of folding room, $2,640; chief clerk to superintendent of folding room, $2,460; three clerks at $2,160 each; janitor, $1,260; laborer, $1,260; thirty-one folders at $1,440 each; shipping clerk, $1,740; two drivers at $1,380 each; two chief pages at $1,980 each; two telephone pages at $1,680 each; two floor managers of telephones (one for the minority) at $3,180 each and $600 each additional so long as the respective positions are held by the respective present incumbents; two assistant floor managers in charge of telephones (one for the minority) at $2,100 each; fifty pages during the session, including ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House at $5 per day each, $45,250; superintendent of document room (Elmer A. Lewis), $3,960 and $1,040 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant superintendent of document room, $2,760; clerk, $2,320; assistant clerk, $2,160; eight assistants at $1,860 each; janitor, $1,440; messenger to press room (House Press Gallery), $1,560; maintenance and repair of folding-room motortruck, $500; in all, $281,970. special and minority employees For the minority employees authorized and named in the House Resolutions Numbered 51 and 53 of December 11, 1931, as amended: Two at $5,000 each, one at $3,000 and $450 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, two at $3,000 each; one at $3,600 and $300 additional while the position is held by the present incumbent (minority pair clerk, House Resolution Numbered 313 of August 7, 1935); in all, $23,350. Special employees: Assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution of September 30, 1913, $1,980; laborer, authorized and named in the resolution of April 28, 1914, $1,380; laborer, $1,380; in all, $4,740. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the two preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Office of majority floor leader: Legislative clerk, $3,110 and $300 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; clerk, $2,530; additional clerk, $2,000; two assistant clerks, at $1,800 each; for official expenses of the majority leader, as authorized by House Resolution Numbered 101, Seventy-first Congress, adopted December 18, 1929, $2,000; in all, $13,540. Conference minority: Clerk, $3,180 and $300 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; legislative clerk, $3,060; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560; in all, $10,200. The foregoing employees to be appointed by the minority leader. Two messengers, one in the majority caucus room and one in the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,740 each; in all, $3,480. Two printing clerks, one for the majority caucus room and one for the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and minority leaders, respectively, at $2,000 each; in all, $4,000. post office Salaries: Postmaster, $5,000; assistant postmaster, $2,880; two registry and money-order clerks, at $2,100 each; forty messengers (including one to superintend transportation of mails), at $1,740 each; substitute messengers and extra services of regular employees, when required, at the rate of not to exceed $145 per month each, $1,740; laborer, $1,260; in all, $84,680. Motor vehicles: For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles for carrying the mails, $2,200. official reporters of debates Salaries: Seven official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at $7,500 each; clerk, $4,000; assistant clerk, $2,000; six expert transcribers, at $2,000 each; in all, $70,500. committee reporters Salaries: Four reporters to committees, at $7,500 each, and two reporters to committees, at $6,500 each; clerk, $3,360; six expert transcribers, at $2,000 each; in all, $58,360: Provided, That any sums received from the sale of copies of transcripts of hearings of committees reported by such reporters shall be covered into the Treasury as “miscellaneous receipts”. Whenever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and eighty-one days from January 1 to June 30, 1946, inclusive. clerk hire, members and delegates For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member and Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, in the discharge of his official and representative duties, as authorized by law, $4,161,000. contingent expenses of the house Furniture: For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, $55,000, of which $5,000 shall be immediately available. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including the sum of $27,500 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 (Public Act 812, Seventy-sixth Congress), the reimbursement to the official reporters to committees for the amounts actually paid out by them for transcribing hearings, and materials for folding, $86,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salaries of three additional laborers authorized in section 2 of House Resolution Numbered 385 of the Seventy-eighth Congress, adopted December 17, 1943. Reporting hearings: For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than special and select committees, $27,500. Special and select committees: For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $400,000. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: For payment of one-half of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation as authorized by law, $35,500. Funeral expenses: No part of the appropriations contained in this title for the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives shall be used to defray the expenses of any committee consisting of more than six persons (not more than four from the House and not more than two from the Senate), nor to defray the expenses of any other person except the Sergeant at Arms of the House or a representative of his office, and except the widow or minor children or both of the deceased, to attend the funeral rites and burial of any person who at the time of his or her death is a Representative, a Delegate from a Territory, or a Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico. Telegraph and telephone: For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, $200,000. Stationery: For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, for the second session of the Seventy-ninth Congress, and for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House (not to exceed $6,000), $93,600. Attending physician’s office: For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses of the emergency room and for the attending physician and his assistants, including an allowance of $1,500 to be paid to the attending physician in equal monthly installments as authorized by the Act approved June 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 629), and including an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month each to four assistants as provided by the House resolutions adopted July 1, 1930, January 20, 1932, and November 18, 1940, $6,985. Postage stamps: Postmaster, $200; Clerk, $400; Sergeant at Arms, $250; Doorkeeper, $100; in all, $950. To enable the Clerk of the House to procure and furnish each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, United States air mail and special delivery postage stamps as authorized by law, $32,850; and the maximum allowance per capita is increased by $25 for the fiscal year 1946 and thereafter. Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand or for the employment of personnel at a rate not to exceed $5.20 per day per person, $30,000. Revision of laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by the Act approved May 29, 1928 (1 U. S. C. 59), $8,000, to be expended under the direction of the Committee on Revision of the Laws. The unexpended balance of the appropriation “For preliminary work in connection with the preparation of a new edition of the United States Code, including the correction of errors as authorized by the Act approved March 2, 1929”, contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1944, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1946. For preparing and editing a new edition of the Code of Laws of the United States of America as authorized and directed by law (U. S. C., title 1, ch. Ill), to remain available until expended, $150,000. Clerk’s office, special assistance: For assistants in compiling lists of reports to be made to Congress by public officials; compiling copy and revising proofs for the House portion of the Official Register; preparing and indexing the statistical reports of the Clerk of the House; compiling the telephone and Members’ directories; preparing and indexing the daily calendars of business; preparing the official statement of Members’ voting records; preparing lists of congressional nominees and statistical summary of elections; preparing and indexing questions of order printed in the Appendix to the Journal pursuant to House rule III; for recording and filing statements of political committees and candidates for election to the House of Representatives pursuant to the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, 1925 (2 U. S. C. 241–256); and for such other assistance as the Clerk of the House may deem necessary and proper in the conduct of the business of his office, $4,500: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to augment the annual salary of any employee of the House of Representatives. Speaker’s automobile: For exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $4,000.

CAPITOL POLICE General expenses: For purchasing and supplying uniforms, purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, contingent expenses, including $25 per month for extra services performed by a member of such force for the Capitol Police Board, $9,400. Capitol Police Board: To enable the Capitol Police Board to provide additional protection during the present emergency for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, including the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, $55,000. Such sum shall only be expended for payment for salaries and other expenses of personnel detailed from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service of the Treasury Department, and the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia, and the heads of such agencies and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to make such details upon the request of the Board. Personnel so detailed shall, during the period of such detail, serve under the direction and instructions of the Board and is authorized to exercise the same authority as members of such Metropolitan Police and members of the Capitol Police and to perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Board. Reimbursement for salaries and other expenses of such detailed personnel shall be made to the Federal agency or the government of the District of Columbia, respectively, and any sums so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriation or appropriations from which such salaries and expenses are payable and be available for all the purposes thereof: Provided, That any person detailed under the authority of this paragraph or under similar authority in the Legislative Branch, Appropriation Act, 1942, and the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, from the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia shall be deemed a member of such Metropolitan Police during the period or periods of any such detail for all purposes of rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits to the same extent as though such detail had not been made, and at the termination thereof any such person who was a member of such police on July 1, 1940, shall have a status with respect to rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits which is not less than the status of such person in such police at the end of such detail. One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol Police” shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House.

JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING Salaries: Clerk, $4,000 and $800 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; inspector under section 20 of the Act approved January 12, 1895 (44 U. S. C. 49), $2,820; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,640; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $11,860, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.

OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Office of Legislative Counsel, as authorized by law, $90,000, of which $42,000 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $48,000 by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives of the statements for the first session of the Seventy-ninth Congress, showing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of such committees to do the work.

ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL office of the architect of the capitol Salaries: For the Architect of the Capitol, Assistant Architect of the Capitol, and other personal services at rates of pay provided by law; and the Assistant Architect of the Capitol shall act as Architect of the Capitol during the absence or disability of that official or whenever there is no Architect; $65,470. Appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol shall be available for expenses of travel on official business not to exceed in the aggregate under all funds the sum of $750. Cost of handling penalty mail, Architect of the Capitol: For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the Architect of the Capitol as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $300. capitol buildings and grounds Capitol Buildings: For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Building and electrical substations of the Senate and House Office Buildings, under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, fuel, oil, waste, and appurtenances; furnishings and office equipment; special clothing for workmen; waterproof wearing apparel; personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of art; maintenance and driving of motor-propelled passenger-carrying office vehicle; not exceeding $300 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books, periodicals, and city directory; not to exceed $150 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Architect of the Capitol, at meetings or conventions in connection with subjects related to work under the Architect of the Capitol; and the compensation of the position of supervising engineer shall be at the rate of $6,000 per annum so long as the position is held by the person who was the incumbent thereof on May 15, 1941; $332,800. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; Capitol Power Plant; personal and other services; care of trees; planting; fertilizers; repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; purchase of waterproof wearing apparel; maintenance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with section 3709 (41 U. S. C. 5) of the Revised Statutes, $109,000. Legislative garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal and other services, and all necessary incidental expenses, $13,200. Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For repairs, rebuilding, and maintenance of the subway system connecting the Senate Office Building with the Senate wing of the United States Capitol and for personal and other services, including maintenance of the cars, track, and electrical equipment connected therewith, $1,500. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment, and for labor and material incident thereto, and repairs thereof; for purchase of waterproof wearing apparel and for personal and other services, including four female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms at $1,500 each, for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building; to be expended under the control and supervision of the Architect of the Capitol; in all, $339,500. House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, waterproof wearing apparel, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $427,000. Capitol power plant: For lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, legislative garage, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate, and for air-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office and Washington City Post Office and for light and power therefor whenever available; personal and other services, engineering instruments, fuel, oil, materials, labor, advertising, and purchase of waterproof wearing apparel in connection with the maintenance and operation of the plant, $882,700. The appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol may be expended without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (41 U. S. C. 7), concerning purchases for executive departments. The Government Printing Office and the Washington City Post Office shall reimburse the Capitol Power Plant for heat, light, and power whenever any such service is furnished during the fiscal year 1946, and the amounts so reimbursed shall be covered into the Treasury. Library Buildings and Grounds mechanical and structural maintenance Salaries: For chief engineer and all personal services at rates of pay provided by law, $97,800. Salaries, Sunday opening: For extra services of employees and additional employees under the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the opening of the Library Buildings on Sundays and on holidays, at rates to be fixed by such Architect, $7,000. General repairs, and so forth: For necessary expenditures for the Library Buildings and Grounds under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, waterproof wearing apparel, material, and appurtenances, and personal and other services in connection with the mechanical and structural maintenance of such buildings and grounds, $84,000, of which $40,000 shall be available for necessary expenses for remodeling of space in the annex for a cafeteria and for furniture, equipment, and other items required for operation of same. For furniture, including the purchase of office and library equipment, apparatus, and labor-saving devices, $38,600, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol.

BOTANIC GARDEN Salaries: For personal services (including not exceeding $3,000 for miscellaneous temporary labor without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended), $80,200; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. Maintenance, operation, repairs, and improvements: For all necessary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden, and the nurseries, buildings, grounds, and equipment pertaining thereto, including procuring fertilizers, soils, tools, trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; materials and miscellaneous supplies, including rubber boots and aprons when required for use by employees in connection with their work; not to exceed $25 for emergency medical supplies; disposition of waste; traveling expenses of the Director and his assistants, not to exceed $250; streetcar fares, not exceeding $25; not to exceed $45 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364); office equipment and contingent expenses; the prevention and eradication of insect and other pests and plant diseases by purchase of materials, and procurement of personal services by contract without regard to the provisions of any other Act; repair, maintenance, operation, purchase, and exchange of motortrucks, and maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger motor vehicle; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to exceed $100; repairs and improvements to Director’s residence; and all other necessary expenses; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $20,000. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act for the Botanic Garden shall be used for the distribution, by congressional allotment, of trees, plants, shrubs, or other nursery stock.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Salaries, Library, proper: For the Librarian, the Librarian Emeritus, Chief Assistant Librarian, and other personal services, including special and temporary services and extra special services of regular employees (not exceeding $5,000) at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $1,783,310, of which $135,000 shall be immediately available. copyright office Salaries: For the Register of Copyrights, assistant register, and other personal services, $299,800. legislative reference service Salaries: To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress, and committees and Members thereof, and for printing and binding the digests of public general bills, and including not to exceed $5,700 for employees engaged on piece work and work by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $198,300: Provided, That not more than $20,000 of this sum shall be used for preparation and reproduction of copies of the Digest of General Public Bills. distribution of printed cards Salaries and expenses: For the distribution of printed cards and other publications of the Library, including personal services, freight charges (not exceeding $500), expressage, postage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, and including not to exceed $30,000 for employees engaged in piece work and work by the day or hour and for extra special services of regular employees at rates to be fixed by the Librarian; in all, $227,900. index to state legislation Salaries and expenses: To enable the Librarian of Congress to prepare an index to the legislation of the several States, together with a supplemental digest of the more important legislation, as authorized and directed by the Act entitled “An Act providing for the preparation of a biennial index to State legislation”, approved February 10, 1927 (2 U. S. C. 164, 165) , including personal and other services within and without the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $2,500 for special and temporary services at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, travel, necessary material and apparatus, and for printing and binding the indexes and digests of State legislation for official distribution only, and other printing and binding incident to the work of compilation, stationery, and incidentals, $35,000. union catalogues Salaries and expenses: To continue the development and maintenance of the Union Catalogues, including personal services within and without the District of Columbia (and not to exceed $700 for special and temporary services, including extra special services of regular employees, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian), travel, necessary material and apparatus, stationery, photostat supplies, and incidentals, $44,700. motion-picture project To enable the Librarian of Congress to make preliminary investigations and to prepare plans for recording, storing, and servicing of motion pictures and still photographs, including personal services, traveling expenses, rental of storage space and other necessary expenses, $11,600. increase of the library of congress General increase of Library: For purchase of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, photo-copying supplies and photo-copying labor, and all other material for the increase of the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses not to exceed $35,000, including expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian in the interest of collections, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, and all other material for the increase of the Library, by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, $525,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1947. Increase of the law library: For the purchase of books and for legal periodicals for the law library, including payment for legal society publications and for freight, commissions, traveling expenses not to exceed $2,500, including expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian in the interest of collections, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of lawbooks, and all other material for the increase of the law library, $150,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1947. Books for the Supreme Court: For the purchase of books and periodicals for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the Marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $20,000. books for adult blind To enable the Librarian of Congress to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the adult blind”, approved March 3, 1931 (2 U. S. C. 135a), as amended, $500,000, including not exceeding $30,000 for personal services, not exceeding $100,000 for books in raised characters, not exceeding $400,000 for sound-reproduction records and for the maintenance and replacement of the Government-owned reproducers for sound-reproduction records for the blind and not exceeding $1,000 for necessary traveling expenses connected with such service and for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian. printing and binding General printing and binding: For miscellaneous printing and binding for the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for the Library Buildings, $319,000. Printing the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office: For the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office and the decisions of the United States courts involving copyright, $20,000. Printing catalog cards: For the printing of catalog cards and of miscellaneous publications relating to the distribution of printed cards, $260,000. contingent expenses of the library For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, stationery, office supplies, stock and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $26,600. For personal services, paper, chemicals, and miscellaneous supplies necessary for the operation of the photoduplicating machines of the Library and the making of photoduplicate prints, and for the purchase of photoduplications, $24,100. For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail for the Library of Congress as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $12,500. library buildings Salaries: For the superintendent and other personal services, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, including special and temporary services and special services of regular employees in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Buildings in the discretion of the Librarian (not exceeding $750) at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $314,300. For mail, delivery, including maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, telephone services, rubber boots, rubber coats, and other special clothing for employees, uniforms for guards and elevator conductors, medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses for the emergency room, stationery, miscellaneous supplies, and all other incidental expenses in connection with the custody and maintenance of the Library Buildings, $22,800: Provided, That any appropriations under the control of the Librarian of Congress may be expended without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) in any case when the total amount of the purchase involved does not exceed the sum of $100. library of congress trust fund board For any expense of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board, $500. Not to exceed ten positions in the Library of Congress may be exempt from the provisions of section 206 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1946, but the Librarian shall not make any appointment to any such position until he has ascertained that he cannot secure for such appointment a person in any of the three categories specified in such section 206 who possesses the special qualifications for the particular position and also otherwise meets the general requirements for employment in the Library of Congress.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE working capital and congressional printing and binding To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the following purposes for the execution of printing, binding, lithographing, mapping, engraving, and other authorized work of the Government Printing Office for the various branches of the Government: For salaries of Public Printer and Deputy Public Printer; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary officers and employees additional to those herein appropriated for, including employees necessary to handle waste paper and condemned material for sale; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting holidays and half holidays and Executive orders granting holidays and half holidays with pay to employees; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting leave to employees with pay, such pay to be at the rate for their regular positions at the time the leave is granted; rental of buildings and equipment; fuel, gas, heat, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, motor-propelled vehicles for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including operation, repair, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $3,000 for attendance at meetings or conventions when authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing; stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, newspapers, magazines, and books of reference (not exceeding $750); adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; rubber boots, coats, and gloves; machinery (not exceeding $300,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; for expenses authorized in writing by the Joint Committee on Printing for the inspection of printing and binding equipment, material, and supplies and Government printing plants in the District of Columbia or elsewhere (not exceeding $1,000) ; for salaries and expenses of preparing the semimonthly and session indexes of the Congressional Record under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing (chief indexer at $3,480, one cataloger at $3,180, two catalogers at $2,460 each, and one cataloger at $2,100); and for all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work; in all, $24,200,000; to which sum shall be charged the printing and binding authorized to be done for Congress including supplemental and deficiency estimates of appropriations; the printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register in accordance with the Act approved July 26, 1935 (44 U. S. C. 301–317) (not exceeding $500,000); for the printing and binding of the supplement to the Code of Federal Regulations for 1945, as authorized by the Act of July 26, 1935 (44 U. S. C. 311), $100,000; the printing and binding for use of the Government Printing Office; the printing and binding (not exceeding $3,000) for official use of the Architect of the Capitol upon requisition of the Secretary of the Senate; in all to an amount not exceeding $4,200,000: Provided, That not less than $20,000,000 of such working capital shall be returned to the Treasury as an unexpended balance not later than twelve months after the close of the fiscal year 1946:Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 73 of the Act of January 12, 1895 (44 U. S. C. 241), no part of the foregoing sum of $4,200,000 shall be used for printing and binding part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture). Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. During the fiscal year 1946 any executive department or independent establishment of the Government ordering printing and binding or blank paper and supplies from the Government Printing Office shall pay promptly by check to the Public Printer upon his written request, either in advance or upon completion of the work, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Public Printer in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment: Provided, That proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishment concerned. All sums paid to the Public Printer for work that he is authorized by law to do; all sums received from sales of wastepaper, other waste material, and condemned property; and for losses or damage to Government property; shall be deposited to the credit, on the books of the Treasury Department, of the appropriation made for the working capital of the Government Printing Office for the year in which the work is done, and be subject to requisition by the Public Printer. No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in the executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. office of superintendent of documents Salaries: For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and compensation of employees who shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office”, approved June 7, 1924 (44 U. S. C. 40), $1,045,000. General expenses: For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference; directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies, paper, twine, glue, envelopes, postage, carfares, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone, and telegraph service; traveling expenses (not to exceed $200); repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; rental of equipment; preserving sanitary condition of building; light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, bibliographies, catalogs, and indexes; for supplying books to depository libraries; in all, $345,000: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such libraries, and the requests therefor shall be subject to approval by the Superintendent of Documents: Provided further, That the Superintendent of Documents shall furnish, from the quota that was printed for sale, two complete sets of Definitive Writings of George Washington to each Senator, Representative, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, serving during the Seventy-eighth Congress, who makes written application therefor. cost of handling penalty mail, government printing office For deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail of the Government Printing Office as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364), $353,000.

Sec. 102.

Purchases.

Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriations under the “Government Printing Office”, as provided for in the

28 Stat. 601.

44 U. S. C. § 1 et seq.

36 Stat. 531.

Printing Act approved January 12, 1895, and without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (41 U. S. C. 7), concerning purchases for executive departments.

Sec. 103.

Annual, etc., reports.

Discontinuance of printing.

In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1946 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions:

Original copies.

Provided, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments or independent establishments for public inspection.

Sec. 104.

Private vehicles.

No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles.

Sec. 105.

Whenever any office or position not specifically established

Rate of compensation and designation of positions.

46 Stat. 32.

2 U. S. C. Supp. IV, § 60a.

by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or whenever the rate of compensation or designation of any position appropriated for herein is different from that specifically established for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the designation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided herein shall be the permanent law with respect thereto; and the authority for any position specifically established by such Act which is not specifically appropriated for herein shall cease to exist.

Sec. 106.

No part of any appropriation contained in this Act

Capitol Police.

Standards required.

shall be paid as compensation to any person appointed after June 30, 1935, as an officer or member of the Capitol Police who does not meet the standards to be prescribed for such appointees by the Capitol Police Board: Provided, That the Capitol Police Board is hereby

Details for duty off Capitol Grounds.

authorized to detail police from the House Office, Senate Office, and Capitol Buildings for police duty on the Capitol Grounds.

Sec. 107.

No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall

Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government.

be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered

Affidavit.

prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who advocates or who

Penalty.

is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment, the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation contained in this Act, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law.

Sec. 108.

This Act may be cited as the “Legislative Branch

Short title.

Appropriation Act, 1946”.