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PUBLIC LAW 208-AUG. 7, 1953
(5) Agencies for which appropriations or funds were made available by the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1953, or the Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1953 (6) The agencies named in subsection (b) of this section. (b) I n no event shall the number of passenger-carrying vehicles which may be operated during the current fiscal year at the seat of government under any appropriation or authorization for the Department of Labor, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the National Labor Relations Board, the National Mediation Board, the Railroad Retirement Board, or the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service exceed 50 per centum of the number in use as of June 30, 1951. SEC. 1316. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, no funds shall be available in this or any other Act for the purchase of furniture by any department or agency in any branch of the Government if such requirements can reasonably be met, as determined by the Administrator of General Services, by transfer of excess furniture including rehabilitated furniture from other departments and agencies pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. SEC. 1317. The appropriations, authorizations, and authority with respect thereto in this Act or any regular annual appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1954 which has not been enacted into law prior to July 1, 1953, shall be available from and including such date for the purposes respectively provided in such appropriations, authorizations, and authority. All obligations incurred during the period between June 30, 1953, and the date of enactment of this Act or the applicable Act in anticipation of such appropriations, authorizations, and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with the respective terms thereof. Approved August 7, 1953. Public Law 208
66 Stat. 5 1 7, 5 7 9. Passenger v e hicle s, re strictloty.
Furniture.
63 Stat. 377. 40 USC 471 note. A v a i l a b i l i t y of appropriations, etc.
CHAPTER 341
JOINT RESOLUTION Establishing in the Treasury of the United States a revolving fund within the contingent fund of the House of Representatives.
Resolved by the /Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States, a revolving fund within •the contingent fund of the House of Representatives for a joint Senate and House Recording Facility (hereinafter referred to as the Facility), for the purpose of administering the duties of the Facility. (a) All balances of the Facility on hand on the date of enactment of this joint resolution and all monies hereafter received by the Facility from'sales or rentals, the sale of any equipment, or from any other source, shall be deposited in the revolving fund by the Clerk of the House of Representatives and shall be available for disbursement from said revolving fund by the Clerk of the House, for the care, maintenance, operation, and other expenses of the Facility, upon vouchers signed jointly by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives. (b) The coordinator of the Facility shall give bond to the Clerk of the House of Representatives with one or more sureties, in the penal sum of $20,000, with condition for the faithful performance of his duties and the preservation and security of all property in his care. Approved August 7, 1953.
August 7, 1953 R e s. 316]
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Joint Senate and H o u s e Recording Facility. Revolving fund.
Bond.
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