PUBLIC LAWS-CEH 277-JUNE 26, 1944 CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE Furniture: For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, $40,000. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including the sum of $27,500 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 54 Stat. 105. (Public Act 812, Seventy-sixth Congress), the reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually paid out by them for transcribing hearings, and materials for folding, $90,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salaries of three additional laborers authorized in section 2 of House Resolution Numbered 385 of the Seventy-eighth Congress, adopted December 17, 1943. Reporting hearings: For stenographic reports of hearings of com- mittees other than special and select committees, $27,500. Special and select committees: For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $400,000. 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. Funeral expenses: No part of the appropriations contained in this title 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 person who at the time of his or her death is a Representative, a Delegate from a Territory, or a Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico. Telegraph and telephone: For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, $175,000. Stationery: For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, for the first session of the Seventy-ninth Congress, and for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House (not to exceed $6,000), $93,600. 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, $6,985. Postage stamps: Postmaster, $200; Clerk, $400; Sergeant at Arms, $250; Doorkeeper, $100; in all, $950. deirmailand spspe To enable the Clerk of the House to procure and furnish each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, United States air mail and special delivery postage stamps as authorized by law, $28,470; and the maximum allowance per capita is increased by $15 for the fiscal year 1945. Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand or for the employment of per- sonnel at a rate not to exceed $5.20 per day per person, $30,000. Revision of laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as 4 *t. authorized by the Act approved May 29, 1928 (1 U.S. C . 59), $8,000. [58 STAT.
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