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PUBLIC LAW 168—OCT. 11, 1951

The rates of compensation for telephone operators and members of the police force under the House of Representatives are hereby revised to correspond with changes made herein relating to similar positions under the Senate. CAPITOL POLICE General expenses: For purchasing and supplying uniforms; maintenance, and repair of passenger motor vehicles; contingent expenses, including $25 per month for extra services performed for the Capitol Police Board by such member of the staff of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate or the House, as may be designated by the chairman of the Board; $17,900. Capitol Police Board: To enable the Capitol Police Board to provide additional protection for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, including the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, $14,515. Such sum shall only be expended for payment for salaries and other expenses of personnel detailed from the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to make such details upon the request of the Board. Personnel so detailed shall, during the period of such detail, serve under the direction and instructions of the Board and is authorized to exercise the same authority as members of such Metropolitan Police and members of the Capitol Police and to perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Board. Reimbursement for salaries and other expenses of such detail personnel shall be made to the government of the District of Columbia, and any sums so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriation or appropriations from which such salaries and expenses are payable and be available for all the purposes thereof: Provided, That any person detailed under the authority of this p a r a ^ a p h or under similar authority in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, and the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, from the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia shall be deemed a member of such Metropolitan Police during the period or periods of any such detail for all purposes of rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits to the same extent as though such detail had not been made, and at the termination thereof any such person who was a member of such police on July 1, 1940, shall have a status with respect to rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits which is not less than the status of such person in such police at the end of such detail. The foregoing amounts under "Capitol Police" shall be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.

C a p i to l Buildini^ and Grounds, etc. Additional protection.

Beimbursement salaries, etc.

Details from Metropolitan Police, D. C. 65 Stat. 466. 64 Stat. 629.

Disbursement.

OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Office of the Legislative Counsel, as authorized by law, including increased and additional compensation as provided by law, $205,000, of which $105,000 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $100,000 by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. JOINT COMMITTEE ON REDUOFION OF N O N E S S E N T I A L FEDERAL EXPENDITURES

For an amount to enable the Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures to carry out the duties imposed upon it by section 601 of the Revenue Act of 1941 (55 Stat. 726),

26 U. 8. C. note prec. § 3600.