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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 236-MAY 17, 1938 Office of majority floor leader. Conference minor- ity. Caucus rooms, mes - sengers. Post Office. Office of majority floor leader: Legislative clerk, $3,110; clerk, $2,530; 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, $11,240. Conference minority: Clerk, $3,180 i legislative clerk, $3,060; assist- ant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560; m all, $9,900. 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. POST OFFICE Salaries. Salaries: Postmaster, $5,000; assistant postmaster, $2,880; two reg- istry and money-order clerks, at $2,100 each; forty messengers (includ- ing one to superintend transportation of mails), at $1,740 each; substi- tute 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, $2,500. Official reporters of debates. Salaries. Stenographers to committees. "During the ses- sion" construed. Members, etc. OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES Salaries: Six 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, $63,000. COMMITTEE STENOGRAPHERS Salaries: Four stenographers to committees, at $7,000 each; clerk, $3,360; in all, $31,360. 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, 1939, both inclusive. CLERK HIRE, MEMBERS AND DELEGATES Clerk hire, etc. 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, in accordance with the Act 46 Stat.entitled "An Act to fix the compensation of officers and employees of 24S. t3Cb. the legislative branch of the Government", approved June 20, 1929, $2,190,000. Contingent expen- ses. Furniture, etc. Packing boxes. Miscellaneous items. Reports of commit- tee hearings. Special and select committees. OONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including not to exceed $27,500 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, $41,500. For packing boxes, $2,500. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually paid out by them for transcribing hearings, and including materials for folding, $96,500, of which $18,000 shall be available immediately. For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than special and select committees, $30,000, of which amount not to exceed $10,000 shall be available immediately. For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $60,000. 388 [52 STAT.