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53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 208 -JUNE 16, 1939 Conference minority: Clerk, $3,180; legislative clerk, $3,060; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560; in 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: 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. For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles for carrying the mails, $2,500. 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 and two stenographers to committees, at $6,000 each; clerk, $3,360; in all, $43,360. Whenever the words "during the session" occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and eighty-two days from January 1 to June 30, 1940, both inclusive. CLERK HIRE, MEMBERS, AND DELEGATES For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member and Dele- gate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, in the dis- charge of his official and representative duties, in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act to fix the compensation of officers and employees of the legislative branch of the Government", approved June 20, 1929, $2,190,000. CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including not to exceed $29,000 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, $43,000. For packing boxes, $1,500: Provided, That no part of this appro- priation shall be used to furnish a packing box to any Repre- sentative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner for any session of Congress unless request therefor has been made not later than thirty days after the sine die adjournment of any such session: Provided further, That all boxes remaining in the hands of the Clerk of the House on July 1, 1939, which were assigned for sessions prior to the first session of the Seventy-sixth Congress shall revert to the general stock of the Clerk of the House. 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, $95,000. 829 Conference minor- ity. Caucus room, mes - sengers. Salaries. Motor vehicles. Salaries. Salaries. "During the ses- sion" construed. Clerk hire, etc. 46 Stat. 38. 2 U1.S. C. §60h. Furniture, etc. Packing boxes. Provisos. Restriction. Disposition of boxes assigned for prior ses- sions. Miscellaneous items.