Public Law 83–470

TITLE I— LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

SENATE salaries and expense allowance of senators, mileage of the president of the senate and of senators, and salary and expense allowance of the vice president For compensation of Senators, $1,200,000. For expense allowance of Senators, $240,000. For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, $51,000. For the compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $30,000. For expense allowance of the Vice President, $10,000. salaries, officers and employees For compensation of officers, employees, clerks to Senators, and others as authorized by law, as follows: office of the vice president For clerical assistance to the Vice President, at rates of compensation to be fixed by him in multiples of $5 per month, $55,410. chaplain Chaplain of the Senate, $2,946. office of the secretary For office of the Secretary, $444,020: Provided, That the basic compensation of the Assistant Parliamentarian shall be increased from $5,940 to $7,000, so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. committee employees For professional and clerical assistance to standing committees, and the Select Committee on Small Business, $1,767,045. conference committees For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Majority, at rates of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $33,310. For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Minority, at rates of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $33,310. administrative and clerical assistants to senators For administrative and clerical assistants and messenger service for Senators, $6,207,625. office of sergeant at arms and doorkeeper For office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $1,276,875, including seven additional pages at the basic annual rate of compensation of $1,800 each, as authorized by Public Law 357, Eighty-third Congress; one foreman of skilled laborers at $2,100 basic and four skilled laborers at $1,920 basic each in lieu of five skilled laborers at $1,920 basic each; assistant postmaster at $4,560 basic in lieu of assistant postmaster at $4,140 basic; superintendent, service department, at $4,380 basic in lieu of foreman in folding room at $3,600 basic; assistant superintendent, service department, at $2,460 basic in lieu of clerk in folding room at $2,460 basic; clerk in service department at $1,980 basic in lieu of clerk in folding room at $1,980 basic; chief machine operator at $2,460 basic in lieu of chief folder at $2,460 basic; and thirteen machine operators at $1,740 basic each in lieu of thirteen folders at $1,740 basic each: Provided, That hereafter the Senate Folding Room shall be known as the Senate Service Department. offices of the secretaries fob the majority and the minority For the offices of the secretary for the majority and the secretary for the minority, $62,165. contingent expenses of the senate Legislative reorganization: For salaries and expenses, legislative reorganization, including the objects specified in Public Law 663, Seventy-ninth Congress, $100,000. Senate policy committees: For salaries and expenses of the Majority Policy Committee and the Minority Policy Committee, $74,670 for each such committee; in all, $149,340. Joint Committee on the Economic Report: For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, $120,775, including compensation for stenographic assistance at such rates and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions of Public Law 304, Seventy-ninth Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, including the objects specified in Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress, $188,060, and including compensation for stenographic assistance at such rates and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions of Public Law 585, Seventy-ninth Congress. Joint Committee on Printing: For salaries for the Joint Committee on Printing at rates to be fixed by the committee, $39,585; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; for compiling, preparing, and indexing material for the biographical directory, $1,900, said sum, or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, may be paid as additional compensation to any employee of the United States; and for travel and subsistence expenses at rates provided by law for Senate committees, $4,500; in all, $47,585. Vice President’s automobile: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President. $5,835. Automobile for the President pro tempore: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the President pro tempore of the Senate, $5,835. Automobiles for majority and minority leaders: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of two automobiles, one for the majority leader of the Senate, and one for the minority leader of the Senate, $11,670. Reporting Senate proceedings: For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $135,785. Furniture: For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $3,190. Furniture: For materials for furniture and repairs of same, and for the purchase of furniture, $19,000: Provided, That the furniture is not available from other agencies of the Government. Inquiries and investigations: For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate or conducted pursuant to section 134 (a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, including compensations for stenographic assistance of committees at such rates and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions of section 134 (a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress; and including $400,000 for the Committee on Appropriations, to be available also for the purposes mentioned in Senate Resolution Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, and Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress, $1,224,120: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses (as defined in the Travel Expense Act of 1949) at rates in excess of $9 per day except that higher rates may be established by the Committee on Rules and Administration in the case of travel beyond the limits of the continental United States. Folding documents: For the employment of personnel for folding speeches and pamphlets at a gross rate of not exceeding $1.50 per hour per person, $27,000. Materials for folding: 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 repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended under the supervision of the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, $55,000. 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, $9,560. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $981,087. Packing boxes: For packing boxes, $3,000. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $500; office of Sergeant at Arms, $225; offices of the secretaries for the majority and the minority, $100; in all. $825. Airmail and special-delivery stamps: For airmail and special-delivery stamps for Senators and the President of the Senate, as authorized by law, $19,400, and the maximum allowance per capita of $132.07 is increased to $200 for the fiscal year 1955 and thereafter. Stationery: For stationery for Senators and for the President of the Senate, including $10,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $126,400. Communications: For an amount for communications which may be expended interchangeably for payment, in accordance with such limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration, of charges on official telegrams and long-distance telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the President of the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those authorized by the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 392; 2 U. S. C. 46c, 46d, 46e), the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U. S. C. 46d–l), Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, Public Law 254, Eighty-second Congress, and Public Law 178, Eighty-third Congress, $14,550. The Sergeant at Arms is authorized and directed to secure suitable office space in post office or other Federal buildings in the State of each Senator for the use of such Senator and in the city to be designated by him: Provided, That in the event suitable space is not available in such buildings and a Senator leases or rents office space elsewhere, the sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the contingent fund of the Senate, vouchers covering bona fide statements of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum for each Senator. The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate is authorized and directed to approve for payment from the contingent fund of the Senate to each Senator an amount not to exceed $150 quarterly, upon certification of each such Senator, for official office expenses incurred in his State. Effective July 1, 1954, the paragraph relating to payment of toll charges on official long-distance telephone calls originating and terminating outside of Washington, District of Columbia, under the heading “Contingent Expenses of the Senate” in Public Law 479, Seventy-ninth Congress, as amended, is amended to read as follows: “There shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate (1) the toll charges on strictly official long-distance telephone calls originating and terminating outside of Washington, District of Columbia, and (2) the toll charges on strictly official long-distance telephone calls to or from Washington, District of Columbia, in excess of those authorized to be paid under the preceding paragraph, not to exceed $1,200 per year, for each Senator.” The Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms are authorized and directed to protect the funds of their respective offices by purchasing insurance in an amount necessary to protect said funds against loss. Premiums on such insurance shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration. Salaries or wages paid out of the foregoing items under “Contingent expenses of the Senate” shall be computed at basic rates, plus increased and additional compensation, as authorized and provided by law.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Salaries, Mileage, and Expenses of Members For compensation of Members (wherever used herein the term “Member” shall include Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico), $5,492,500. For mileage and expense allowance of Members, as authorized by law, $1,273,500: Provided, That hereafter the fiscal year for the adjustment of the accounts of the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives for compensation and mileage of Members shall extend from July 1 to June 30. Salaries, Officers and Employees For compensation of officers and employees, as authorized by law, as follows: office of the speaker For Office of the Speaker, $47,285. office of the parliamentarian For the Office of the Parliamentarian, including $2,000 for preparing Digest of the Rules, $43,885. office of the chaplain For the Office of the Chaplain, $4,200. office of the clerk For the Office of the Clerk, including $25,000 for additional administrative personnel, $17,000 for additional clerical assistants and readjustment of salaries in the disbursing office, and $597 additional for increased longevity pay for telephone operators; $737,530. committee employees For committee employees, including not to exceed $330,000 for the Committee on Appropriations; $1,820,000. office of the sergeant at arms For Office of the Sergeant at Arms, $384,045. office of the doorkeeper For the Office of the Doorkeeper, $657,915. special and minority employees For six minority employees, $54,685. For office of the majority floor leader, including $2,000 for official expenses of the majority leader, $45,985. For the office of the minority floor leader, $36,000. For the office of majority whip, $20,310. For the office of minority whip, $20,725. For 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, $7,485. For a technical assistant in the office of the attending physician, to be appointed by the attending physician, subject to the approval of the Speaker, $6,295. office of the postmaster For the Office of the Postmaster, including $1,710 additional for the employment of substitute messengers, and extra services of regular employees when required at the basic salary rate of not to exceed $1,940 per annum each, $189,880. official reporters of debates For official reporters of debates, $124,435. official reporters to committees For official reporters to committees, including compensation for the employment of expert transcribers, $133,855. appropriations committee For salaries and expenses, studies and examinations of executive agencies, by the Committee on Appropriations, and temporary personal services for such committee, to be expended in accordance with section 202 (b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act, 1946, and to be available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, $450,000. members’ clerk hire For clerk hire, necessarily employed by each Member in the discharge of his official and representative duties, which shall be at the basic rate of $15,000 per annum; Provided, That no salary shall be fixed hereunder at a basic rate in excess of $6,000 per annum; $11,500,000. Contingent Expenses of the House Furniture: For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, and for the purchase of packing boxes, $220,500. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including the sum of $12,500 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 (Public Law 812); the exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of the Clerk’s motor vehicles; the exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of the folding room motortruck; the exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of the post-office motor vehicles for carrying the mails; the sum of $600 for hire of automobile for the Sergeant at Arms; materials for folding; and for stationery for the use of committees, departments, and officers of the House; $898,800. Reporting hearings: For stenographic reports of hearings of Committees other than special and select committees, $125,000. Special and select committees: For salaries and expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $1,250,000. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: For the payment of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, $200,000. Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy: For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy, $20,000. Office of the Coordinator of Information: For salaries and other expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of Information, $73,750. Telegraph and telephone: For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, $800,000: Provided, That effective July 1, 1954, the number of minutes of official long distance telephone calls allowed each Member shall not exceed 2,700 per annum. Stationery (revolving fund): For a stationery allowance for each Member, (which hereafter shall be $1,200 per regular session) for the first session of the Eighty-fourth Congress, $525,600, to remain available until expended. 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, $8,985. Postage stamps: Postmaster, $320; Clerk, $640; Sergeant at Arms, $480; Doorkeeper, $400. After June 30, 1954, the amount allowed to Members for United States airmail and special-delivery postage stamps for each fiscal year shall be $200 each; to the Speaker, the majority and minority leaders, the majority and minority whips, $360 each; and to each standing committee, $80. In all, $94,050. Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a gross rate not exceeding $2 per thousand or for the employment of personnel at a gross rate not exceeding $1.50 per hour per person, $125,000. Revision of laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by the Act approved May 29, 1928 (1 U. S. C. 59), $13,700, to be expended under the direction of the Committee on the Judiciary. Speaker’s automobile: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $7,200. Automobile for the majority leader: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the majority leader of the House, $5,835. Automobile for the minority leader: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the minority leader of the House, $5,835. Salaries or wages paid out of the items herein for the House of Representatives shall hereafter be computed at basic rates, plus increased and additional compensation, as authorized and provided by law. The Sergeant at Arms is hereafter authorized and directed to secure suitable office space in post offices or other Federal buildings in each district represented by a Member of the House of representatives for the use of such Member and at a place in such district which such Member may designate: Provided, That in the event suitable office space is not available in such buildings and a Member leases or rents office space elsewhere, the Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the contingent fund of the House of representatives, vouchers covering bona fide statements of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum for each such Member. For the purposes of this paragraph the term “district” includes Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and, in the case of a Representative-at-large, a State. The Clerk of the House is authorized and directed to reimburse each Member from the contingent fund in an amount not to exceed $150 quarterly. upon certification of the Member, for official office expenses incurred in his Congressional district. No part of any appropriation 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 Member. The Clerk of the House is hereafter authorized to pay, from the contingent fund of the House, a gratuity to the widow, widower, or heirs-at-law, of each deceased employee of the House an amount equal to one month’s salary for each year or part of year of the first six years’ service of such employee plus one-half of one month’s salary for each year or part of year of such service in excess of six years to and including the eighteenth year of such service. Service computed hereunder shall include all Federal civilian employment, and military service where such service interrupted Federal civilian employment.

CAPITOL POLICE General expenses: For purchasing and supplying uniforms; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of police motor vehicles, including two-way police radio equipment: contingent expenses, including $25 per month for extra services performed for the Capitol Police Board by such member of the staff of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate or the House, as may be designated by the chairman of the Board; $17,900. Capitol Police Board: To enable the Capitol Police Board to provide additional protection for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, including the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, $22,345. Such sum shall only be expended for payment for salaries and other expenses of personnel detailed from the Metro-politan Police of the District of Columbia, 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 detail personnel shall be made to the government of the District of Columbia, 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: Provided further, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are directed to pay the lieutenants detailed under the authority of this paragraph the same salary as that paid in fiscal year 1954 plus such increases in basic compensation as may be subsequently provided by law so long as these positions are held by the present incumbents. The foregoing amounts under “Capitol Police” shall be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.

OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Office of the Legislative Counsel, as authorized by law, including increased and additional compensation as provided by law $259,000, of which $132,000 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $127,000 by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

JOINT COMMITTEE ON REDUCTION OF NONESSENTIAL FEDERAL EXPENDITURES For an amount to enable the Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures to carry out the duties imposed upon it by section 601 of the Revenue Act of 1941 (55 Stat. 726), to remain available during the existence of the committee, $20,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate.

EDUCATION OF SENATE AND HOUSE PAGES For education of congressional pages and pages of the Supreme Court, pursuant to section 243 of the Legislative Reorganization Act, 1946, $47,280, which amount shall be advanced and credited to the applicable appropriation of the District of Columbia, and the Board of Education of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to employ such personnel for the education of pages as may be required and to pay compensation for such services in accordance with such rates of compensation as the Board of Education may prescribe.

PENALTY MAIL COSTS For expenses necessary under section 2 of Public Law 286, Eighty-third Congress, $1,169,700, to be available immediately.

STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS For the preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the second session of the Eighty-third Congress, showing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills as required by law, $6,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of such committees to supervise 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, Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant, 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, and, in case of the absence: or disability of the Assistant Architect, the Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant shall so act; $138,000. 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 $3,000. 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 and protective clothing for workmen; personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of art without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; purchase or exchange, maintenance and operation of passenger motor vehicle; not to exceed $300 for the purchase of necessary reference books and periodicals; 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; $630,000. 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; 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 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; $342,500. Legislative garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal and other services, and all other necessary expenses, $34,200. Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For maintenance, repairs, and rebuilding of the subway transportation system connecting the Senate Office Building with the Capitol, including personal and other services, $3,500. 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 five female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms at $1,800 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, $796,400. House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, waterproof wearing apparel, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $984,200: Provided, That $70,000 of the amount made available under this head for the fiscal year 1952, continued available by the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1953, until June 30, 1953, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1955. Capitol Power Plant: For lighting, heating, and power (including the purchase of electrical energy), 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 for air-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office and Washington City Post Office, reimbursement for which shall be made and covered into the Treasury; personal and other services, fuel, oil, materials, waterproof wearing apparel, and all other necessary expenses in connection with the maintenance and operation of the plant. $1,237,000. Changes and improvements, Capitol Power Plant: Toward carrying out the changes and improvements authorized by the Act of October 26, 1949 (Public Law 413, Eighty-first Congress), $1,500,000, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the House Office Building Commission. Library Buildings and Grounds Structural and mechanical care: For the necessary expenditures for mechanical and structural maintenance, including minor improvements, equipment, supplies, waterproof wearing apparel, and personal and other services, $400,000. Furniture and furnishings: For furniture, partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, office and library equipment, apparatus, and laborsaving devices, $50,000.

BOTANIC GARDEN Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, buildings, grounds, collections, and equipment pertaining thereto, including personal services (including not to exceed $3,000 for temporary labor without regard to the Classification Act of 1949); waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 for emergency medical supplies; traveling expenses including streetcar fares, not to exceed $275; 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; purchase and exchange of motor trucks; purchase and exchange, 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; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library; $223,100: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the distribution, by congressional allotment, of trees, plants, shrubs, or other nursery stock.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Library of Congress not otherwise provided for, including compensation of the Librarian Emeritus, as authorized by law; development and maintenance of the Union Catalogs; custody, care, and maintenance of the Library buildings: special clothing; and expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board; $4,717,636.

copyright office Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, including publication of the decisions of the United States courts involving copyrights, $1,100,000.

legislative reference service Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U. S. C. 166), $875,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be used to pay any salary or expense in connection with any publication, or preparation of material therefor (except the Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued by the Library of Congress unless such publication has obtained prior approval of either the Committee on House Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.

distribution of catalog cards Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the preparation and distribution of catalog cards and other publications of the Library, $1,332,000.

increase of the library of congress General increase of the Library: For expenses (except personal services) necessary for acquisition of books, periodicals and newspapers, and all other material for the increase of the Library, $260,000, to continue available during the next succeeding fiscal year. Increase of the law library: For expenses (except personal services) necessary for acquisition of books, legal periodicals, and all other material for the increase of the law library, $90,000, to continue available during the next succeeding fiscal year. 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 Librarian of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $25,000.

books for the blind For salaries and other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the blind”, approved March 3, 1931 (2 U. S. C. 135a), as amended, $1,000,000.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE printing and binding For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; not to exceed $5,000 for printing and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session index to the Congressional Record, as authorized by law (44 U. S. C. 182); printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register (including the Code of Federal Regulations), as authorized by Law (44 U. S. C. 309, 311, 311a); and printing and binding of Government publications authorized by law to be distributed without charge to the recipients; $8,500,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for printing and binding part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture). office of superintendent of documents Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Documents, including personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, 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); traveling expenses (not to exceed $1,500); price lists and bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; and supplying books to depository libraries; $2,825,000: 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.

TITLE II— THE JUDICIARY

Supreme Court of the United States salaries For the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, and all other officers and employees, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Court, except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the Chief Justice to any office or work of the Court, $1,016,000. printing and binding supreme court reports For printing and binding the advance opinions, preliminary prints, and bound reports of the Court, $91,200. preparation of rules for civil procedure For expenses of the Supreme Court incident to proposed amendments or additions to the rules of civil procedure for the United States District Courts pursuant to title 28, United States Code, section 2072, to be expended as the Chief Justice in his discretion may approve, including personal services in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, and per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses for subsistence at rates to be fixed by him not to exceed $15 per day, $4,300, which, together with the unexpended balance of funds appropriated under this head in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, shall remain available until June 30, 1955. miscellaneous expenses For miscellaneous expenses to be expended as the Chief Justice may approve, $52,650. care of the buildings and grounds For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon him by the Act approved May 7, 1934 (40 U. S. C. 13a–13d), including improvements, maintenance, repairs, equipment, supplies, materials, and appurtenances; special clothing for workmen; and personal and other services (including temporary labor without reference to the Classification and Retirement Acts, as amended), and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with sections 3709, as amended, and 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5, 16); $3,300.

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals salaries and expenses For salaries of the chief judge, four associate judges, and all other officers and employees of the court, and necessary expenses of the court, including exchange of books, and traveling expenses, as may be approved by the chief judge, $210,160.

Customs Court salaries and expenses For salaries of the chief judge, eight judges, and all other officers and employees of the court, and necessary expenses of the court, including exchange of books, and traveling expenses, as may be approved by the chief judge, $495,630: Provided, That traveling expenses of judges of the Customs Court shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge.

Court of Claims salaries and expenses For salaries of the chief judge, four associate judges, seven regular and six additional commissioners, and all other officers and employees of the Court, and for other necessary expenses, including stenographic and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony, and travel, $618,000. repairs and improvements For necessary repairs and improvements to the Court of Claims buildings, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, $8,000. Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services salaries of judges For salaries of circuit judges; district judges (including judges of the district courts of Alaska, the Virgin Islands, the Panama Canal Zone, and Guam); justices and judges of the Supreme Court and circuit courts of the Territory of Hawaii; and justices and judges retired or resigned under title 28, United States Code, sections 371, 372, and 373; $5,472,500. Salaries of Supporting Personnel For salaries of all officials and employees of the Federal Judiciary, not otherwise specifically provided for, $12,850,000: Provided, That the compensation of secretaries and law clerks of circuit and district judges shall be fixed by the Director of the Administrative Office without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, except that the salary of a secretary shall conform with that of the General Schedule grades (GS) 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8, as the appointing judge shall determine, and the salary of a law clerk shall conform with that of the General Schedule grades (GS) 5, 7, 9, 11, or 12, as the appointing judge shall determine, subject to review by the judicial council of the circuit if requested by the Director, such determination by the judge otherwise to be final: Provided further, That (exclusive of step-increases corresponding with those provided for by title VII of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and of compensation paid for temporary assistance needed because of an emergency) the aggregate salaries paid to secretaries and law clerks appointed by one judge shall not exceed $10,560 per annum, except in the case of the chief judge of each circuit and the chief judge of each district court having five or more district judges, in which case the aggregate salaries shall not exceed $14,355 per annum. fees of jurors and commissioners For fees, expenses, and costs of jurors (including meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900, 31 Stat. 362); compensation of jury commissioners; and fees of United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under title 18, United States Code, section 3041; $3,950,000. travel and miscellaneous expenses For necessary travel and miscellaneous expenses, not otherwise provided for, incurred by the Judiciary, including the purchase of firearms and ammunition, the cost of contract statistical services for the office of Register of Wills of the District of Columbia and not to exceed $1,000 for the payment of fees to attorneys appointed in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 625), not exceeding $25 in any one case, $1,800,000: Provided, That this sum shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $8,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of Federal Probation when incurred on the written authorization of the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. administrative office of the united states courts For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, including travel, advertising, and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $595,000. salaries of referees For salaries of referees as authorized by the Act of June 28, 1946, as amended (11 U. S. C. 68). not to exceed $1,083,700, to be derived from the referees’ salary fund established in pursuance of said Act. expenses of referees For miscellaneous expenses of referees, United States courts, including the salaries of their clerical assistants, travel, purchase of envelopes without regard to the Act of June 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 476), not to exceed $1,443,550, to be derived from the referees’ expense fund established in pursuance of the Act of June 28, 1946, as amended (11 U.S.C. 68 (c) (4)).

TITLE III— GENERAL PROVISIONS