248 PUBLIC LAW-U .ti. 1-JUli u oi, Io- i -... 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. Motor vehicles: For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles for carrying the mails, $2,200. OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES Salaries: Seven 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, $70,500. COMMT1TEE REPORTERS Salaries: Four reporters to committees, at $7,500 each, and two reporters to committees, at $6,500 each; clerk, $3,360; six expert T.ranipts of hear- transcribers, at $2,000 each; in all, $58,360: Provided,That any sums received from the sale of copies of transcripts of hearings of.com - mittees reported by such reporters shall be covered into the Treasury as "miscellaneous receipts". "Duing the 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, 1946, inclusive. CLERK HIRE, MEMBERS AND DELEGATES 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, as authorized by law, $4,161,000. CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE Furniture: For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, $55,000, of which $5,000 shall be immediately available. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, includ- ing 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 MsBtat.io. (Public Act 812, Seventy-sixth Congress), the reimbursement to the official reporters to committees for the amounts actually paid out by them for transcribing hearings, and materials for folding Bestrction $86,000: 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 - .__ - . n Ar- -- 12jar rma 9-AT
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