58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 277-JUNE 26, 1944 Furniture: For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000. Furniture: For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclu- sive of labor, and for the purchase of furniture, $8,000. Inquiries and investigations: For expenses of inquiries and investi- gations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenogra- phers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, $150,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926, as amended. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: For payment of one-half of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation as authorized by law, $35,500. Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $18,000. 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 payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with the Act approved September 9, 1942 (Public Law 709, Seventy-seventh Congress), $35,000. 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, $8,760. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $372,962. Packing boxes: For packing boxes, $970. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $350; office of Sergeant at Arms, $650; in all, $1,000. The paragraph of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, which authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Senate to procure and furnish air-mail postage stamps each fiscal year to each Senator and the President of the Senate, is hereby amended effective July 1, 1944, to read as follows: "Hereafter the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to procure and furnish each fiscal year to each Senator and the Presi- dent of the Senate, upon request by such person, United States air- mail and special-delivery postage stamps in an amount not exceeding $96.66 for the mailing of postal matters arising in connection with his or her official business." To enable the Secretary of the Senate to carry into effect the pro- visions of the preceding paragraph, $9,376.66. The Committee on Appropriations, authorized by Senate Reso- lution Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, to employ expert and clerical assistance for the purpose of obtaining and laying factual data and information before the committee for its consideration in the discharge of its functions, hereby is authorized to expend from the contingent fund of the Senate, during the fiscal year 1945, $50,000 in pursuance of the purposes set forth in said resolution. There shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate the initial three-minute toll charges on not to exceed ten strictly official long-distance telephone calls from Washington, District of Columbia, per month for each Senator. 339 Post, p. 864 Per diem and sub- sistence. 44 Stat. 688. 6U.S.0.1821; Supp. III, 823 . 66Stat. 750. 40 U.S. ., Supp. III, §§174f-174j. 55 Stat. 450 . 2 U. S. C., Supp. III, 42a. Air-mail andspecial- delivery postage stamps. Assistance In ob- taining factual data. Long-distance tele- phone calls.
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