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59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 271-JULY 5, 1945 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE Telegraph and telephone: For an additional amount for telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, fiscal year 1945, $3'7,500. SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES Committee employees: For an additional amount to pay the second assistant clerk, Committee on Claims, additional compensation at the rate of $1,000 per annum so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, as authorized by House Resolution Numbered 290, of June 8, 1945, fiscal year 1946, $1,000. Capitol Police force under the Sergeant at Arms: The compensa- tion rates named under this head in the Legislative Branch Appro- priation Act, 1946, are hereby increased from $1,740 each to $2,000 each for lieutenants, from $1,680 each to $1,920 each for sergeants and for $1,620 each to $1,800 each for privates, and for payment of such increases, fiscal year 1946, $12,780. Doorkeeper's office: For payment of fifty pages, including ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, from July 1 to December 31, 1945, both dates inclusive, at $5 per day each, fiscal year 1946, $46,000. COMMITTEEr ON FEDERAL EXPENDIrTRES For an amount which is hereby authorized 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, $10,000; to enable the committee to perform the additional duties required of it for economy studies incident to the reorganization of the executive branch, $10,000; in all, $20,000, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half by the Clerk of the House on vouchers approved by the chair- man of the committee. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Working capital and congressional printing and binding, 1945: The amount available for the printing binding, and distribution of the Federal Register is hereby increased to $520,000 for the fiscal year 1945: Provided That no increase is thereby made in the existing appropriation for working capital and congressional printing and binding. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE For all expenses incident to the death and burial of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, including undertakers' charges and expenses of transportation from Warm Springs, Georgia, to Washington, District of Columbia, and thence to Hyde Park, New York, fiscal years 1945 and 1946, $14,500, to be expended under the direction of the Presi- dent: Provided, That no payment shall be made from this appro- priation to any officer or employee of the Government for personal or professional services. Ante, p. 245. Capitol Police force, pay increase. Ante, p. 246. Pages. Ante, p. 247. 26 U. S. C., Supp. IV, note prec. § 3656. Federal Register. 58 Stat. 352 . Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Expensesincident to death and burial. 413 68 Stat. 34.