Volume 67 · 8
Public Law 83–10
To authorize the Clerk of the House of Representatives to furnish certain electrical or mechanical office equipment for the use of Members, officers, and committees of the House of Representatives.
Approved March 25, 1953
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the Clerk of the House of Representatives to furnish certain electrical or mechanical office equipment for the use of Members, officers, and committees of the House of Representatives.
Resolved by the. Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
upon the request of any Member, officer, or committee of the House of Representatives and with the approval of the Committee on House Administration, but subject to the limitations hereinafter prescribed, the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to furnish electrical or mechanical office equipment for use in the office of such Member, officer, or committee. The cost of such equipment shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives.
The original cost of equipment famished under this joint resolution, together with the original cost of any equipment purchased under H. Res. 318, Eighty-second Congress, which may be in use in the office of a Member, officer, or committee at any one time shall not exceed $2,509.
The electrical or mechanical office equipment which may be furnished under this joint resolution for use in the office of a Member, officer, or committee shall be limited to not more than two of each of the following general types of equipment:
addressing machines;
automatic typewriters;
electric typewriters;
recording machines for dictating and transcribing; and
duplicating machines.
Sec. 2.
Electrical or mechanical office equipment furnished under this joint resolution shall be registered in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and shall remain the property of the House of Representatives.
Sec. 3.
The last paragraph under the heading “Contingent expenses
of the House” in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1953, is hereby repealed, and the provisions of H. Res. 318, Eighty-second Congress, shall not hereafter be in effect.
Sec. 4.
For the purposes of this joint resolution, the term “Member” means a Representative in Congress, a Delegate from a Territory, or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.
Sec. 5.
The Committee on House Administration shall prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this joint resolution.
Approved March 25, 1953.