PUBLIC LAWS--CHS. 617, 618-DEC. 20, 1944 Certification of changes to disbursing office. Conflicting laws su- perseded. Ante, p. 341. Ant, p. 343 . Ante, p. 337. Rearrangement of Senate salary sched- ules. Aggregate amount ofbasic compensation. Post, p. 854. December 20, 1944 [H. J. Res. 289j [Public Law 513) Inaugural cere- monies, 1945. Use of public spaces inD.C. Conditions for granting of permits. hereof shall not increase the aggregate of the salaries provided for such offices or committees for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, or thereafter, beyond the additional amount herein authorized for clerk hire for Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and an amount equivalent to the difference between the aggregate amount appropriated for salaries of a standing com- mittee for the fiscal year 1945 and the amount required to increase the compensation rate prevailing on December 6, 1944 (in case of a vacancy, the rate last paid), to the clerk of a standing committee to a rate not in excess of $5,000 per annum: Provided further, That no compensation rate shall be established in pursuance hereof which is not a multiple of five: Provided further, That Representatives, Dele- gates, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and committee chairmen, on or before the tenth day of the month in which rearrange- ments or changes of salary schedules are to become effective, shall certify in writing such rearrangements or changes to the disbursing office, which shall thereafter pay such employees in accordance with such rearrangements or changes: Provided further, That the pro- visions of this paragraph shall supersede any law in conflict therewith. For an additional amount, fiscal year 1945, for committee employees, to be available solely for expenditure for additional compensation for clerks to standing committees, as authorized in the preceding paragraph, $42,630. For an additional amount, fiscal year 1945, for clerk hire, Members and Delegates, $657,000. SEC. 2. Effective January 1, 1945- (a) The paragraph in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1945, which permits Senators and chairmen of standing committees of the Senate to rearrange the schedule of basic salaries of employees in their respective offices or committees is hereby amended by striking out "$4,500" wherever it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "$5,040". (b) The aggregate amount of the basic compensation authorized to be paid to employees in the offices of Senators (including employees of standing committees of which Senators are chairmen) is hereby increased by (1) $4,020 in the case of each Senator from a State which has a population of less than four million inhabitants and (2) by $5,040 in the case of each Senator from a State which has a population of four million or more inhabitants. Approved December 20, 1944. [CHAPTER 618] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the granting of permits to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in January 1945, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency, and such other officers of the District of Columbia and the United States as control any public lands in the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized to grant permits, under such restrictions as they may deem necessary, to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies to be appointed with the approval of the President-elect for the use of any reservations or other public spaces in the District of Columbia under their control on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in January 1945: Provided, That in their opinion no serious or permanent injuries will be thereby inflicted upon such reservations or public spaces or statuary thereon; 832 [58 STAT.
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