An Act amending section 437 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code
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be transferred to the departments, agencies, or establishments to which 
the related functions are transferred. 
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EFFECTIVE DATE 
SEC. 531. Sections 502 (a), (b) (2), and section 504 (b) of this Act 
shall take effect on such date or dates as the President shall specify, 
but in no event later than sixty days after the date the Director first 
appointed takes office. Section 511 shall take effect ninety days after 
enactment of this Act. All other provisions of this Act shall take 
effect upon the date of its enactment. 
Approved October 10, 1951. 
Ante, pp. 378, 379. 
Public Law 166 
CHAPTER 480 
AN ACT 
Amending section 437 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
October 10, 1951 
[H. R. 2562] 
Be it enacted hy tJie Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 437 
(c) of the Internal Revenue Code is amended by striking out "(other 
than mutual and other than life or marine)" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "taxable under the provisions of section 204". 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by section 1 shall have the same effect 
as if it had been a part of the said section 437 (c) on January 3,1951. 
Approved October 10, 1951. 
64 Stat. 1157. 
26U.S.C. § 437(c). 
Public Law 167 
CHAPTER 484 
AN ACT 
To authorize officers designated by the Secretary of the Air Force to take action 
on reports of survey and vouchers pertaining to Government property. 
October 11,1951 
[H. R. 1203] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, under regu- 
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lations prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force, designated officers etc. 
may take action upon reports oi survey and all other vouchers per-
taining to the loss, damage, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, 
or destruction of property of the United States under the control of 
the Department of the Air Force, and the action taken by any such 
officer on those surveys or vouchers shall be final: Provided, That in 
any such case where a person or concern is held pecuniarily liable, the 
findings shall not be final until approved by the Secretary of the Air 
Force or by such officers as the Secretary may designate. 
Approved October 11, 1951. 
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CHAPTER 485 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1952, and for other purposes. 
October 11,1051 
[H. R. 4496] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
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United States of America, in Congress assembled. That the following , Legislative Branch 
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appropriated, for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
June 30,1952, namely: 
SENATE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF SENATORS, MILEAGE OF THE 
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND OF SENATORS, AND EXPENSE ALLOW-
ANCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of Senators, $1,200,000. 
For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, $51,000. 
For expense allowance of the Vice President, $10,000. 
For expense allowance of Senators, $240,000. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers, employees, clerks to Senators, and 
others, as authorized by law, including increased and additional com-
fu^Tc^§'9oinote P^nsation provided by the "Federal Employees Pa}^ Act of 1945", as 
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' amended, and the "Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950", 
as follows: 
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, 
$30,000. 
For clerical assistance to the Vice President, at rates of compensa-
tion to be fixed by him in multiples of $5 per month, $50,370. 
CHAPLAIN 
Chaplain of the Senate, $2,646. 
OFFICE OF T H E SECRETARY 
For office of the Secretary, $367,706, including the following posi-
tions : Chief Clerk, $7,500 in lieu of Chief Clerk, who shall perform 
the duties of reading clerk, $7,500; bill clerk, $4,500 in lieu of prin-
cipal clerk, $4,500; engineer, Joint Recording Facility, $2,280; sec-
retary, $4,100 in lieu of clerk, $4,100; assistant secretary, $3,380 in 
lieu of clerk, $3,380; assistant superintendent of document room, 
$4,000 in lieu of clerk, $4,000; clerk of enrolled bills, $3,900 in lieu 
of clerk, $3,900; first assistant in document room, $3,420 in lieu of 
clerk, $3,420; secretary to Parliamentarian, $3,180 in lieu of clerk, 
$3,180; custodian of records, $3,180 in lieu of clerk, $3,180; assistant 
executive clerk, $3,000 in lieu of clerk, $3,000; assistant keeper of 
stationery, $2,880 in lieu of clerk, $2,880; reference assistant, $2,700 
in lieu of clerk, $2,700; stockroom clerk, $2,460 in lieu of clerk, $2,400; 
reference assistant, $2,460 in lieu of clerk, $2,400; journal index clerk, 
$2,460 in lieu of clerk, $2,400; second assistant in document room, 
$2,460 in lieu of clerk, $2,400; reference assistant, $1,980 in lieu of 
clerk, $1,740; clerks—two at $2,040 each in lieu of $1,860; two at $1,980 
each in lieu of $1,740; reference assistant, $2,640 in lieu of first assist-
ant in document room, $2,640; clerk, $2,220 in lieu of second assistant 
in document room, $2,040; special officers—two at $2,520 each in lieu 
of $2,460; assistants in document room—four at $2,220 each in lieu 
of $2,040; chief messenger in document room, $1,980 in lieu of skilled 
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laborer, $1,740; assistant librarian, $3,120 in lieu of first assistant 
librarian, $3,120; secretary in library, $2,220 in lieu of assistant in 
library, $2,100; legislative analyst, $2,220 in lieu of assistant in 
library, $2,100; chief messenger in Secretary's office, $2,400 in lieu of 
laborer, $2,280; messenger, $1,980 in lieu of laborer in Secretary's 
office, $1,740; messengers—four at $1,980 each in lieu of four laborers 
at $1,740 each; chief messenger in disbursing office, $1,920 in lieu of 
laborer, $1,680; chief of library stacks, $1,860 in lieu of laborer, 
$1,620; reference assistant, $1,800 in lieu of laborer, $1,500; messenger, 
$1,800 in lieu of laborer, $1,500; chief messenger in library, $1,740 
in lieu of laborer, $1,440; messenger, $1,620 in lieu of laborer, $1,320; 
messenger, $1,620 in lieu of $1,320; press liaison, $2,880 in lieu of 
assistant at press door, $2,520; assistant at press door, $2,160 in lieu 
of $2,000; aide to the Vice President, $2,460 in lieu of $2,400. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For professional and clerical assistance to standing committees, and 
the Select Committee on Small Business, $1,579,685. 
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Majority, at rates of 
compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $30,280. 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Minority at rates of 
compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $30,280. 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL ASSISTANTS TO SENATORS 
For administrative and clerical assistants and messenger service for 
Senators, $5,041,545. 
OFFICE OF SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER 
For office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $1,130,628, including 
the following positions: Messengers acting as assistant doorkeepers— 
three at $2,580 each in lieu of $2,560; messengers—twenty-five at $2,100 
each in lieu of $1,900; messengers for the minority—chief, $2,400 and 
three at $2,100 each in lieu of four at $1,900 each; messengers—four 
at $1,980 each in lieu of $1,780; messengers for service to press cor-
respondents—two at $1,800 each in lieu of $1,500; clerks—one, $3,480 
in lieu of $2,700; one, $2,580 in lieu of $2,500; one, $2,460 in lieu of 
$2,400; one, $2,400 in lieu of $2,280; one, $2,280 in lieu of $2,160: four 
at $2,160 each in lieu of $1,980; one, $2,160 in lieu of $1,950; cabinet-
makers—two at $2,520 each in lieu of $2,460; finisher, $2,520 in lieu 
of $2,460; upholsterer, $2,520 in lieu of $2,460; assistant chief janitor, 
$2,220 in lieu of $2,100; night foreman, $1,920 in lieu of $1,680; assist-
ant chief telephone operators—three at $2,460 each in lieu of $2,400; 
telephone operators—thirty-three at $1,980 each plus longevity 
increases as authorized by law in lieu of $1,800 plus such longevity 
increases; skilled laborers—five at $1,920 each in lieu of $1,680; laborer 
in charge of private passage, $2,400 in lieu of $2,280; female attend-
ants, ladies' retiring rooms, two at $1,800 each in lieu of $1,560; 
laborers—three at $1,920 each in lieu of $1,700; thirty at $1,620 each 
in lieu of $1,320; four at $600 each in lieu of $540; wagon master, 
$2,520 in lieu of $2,480; assistant wagon master, $2,100 in lieu of 
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$1,940; mail carriers—twenty-six at $2,100 each in lieu of $1,940; 
clerks in folding room—one, $2,460 in lieu of $2,400; one, $1,980 in 
lieu of $1,740; chief folder, $2,460 in lieu of $2,040; folders—thirteen 
at $1,740 each in lieu of $1,440; lieutenants, police force—two at $2,340 
each in lieu of $2,200; special officers, police force—two at $2,340 
each in lieu of $2,200; sergeants, police force—four at $2,280 each in 
lieu of $2,120; privates, police force—seventy-five at $2,160 each in 
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f pages. 
j^g^ ^f $2,000: Provided, That hereafter the pay of pages shall begin 
not more than five days before the convening or reconvening of a ses-
sion of the Congress or of the Senate, and shall continue until the end 
of the month during which the Congress or the Senate adjourns or 
recesses, or the fourteenth day after such adjournment or recess, which-
ever is the later date. 
orriCES OF T H E SECRETARIES FOR THE MAJORITY AND T H E MINORITT 
For the offices of the secretary for the majority and the secretary for 
the minority, $57,060. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
Legislative reorganization: For salaries and expenses, legislative 
2if*s*c"§60aand reorganization, including the objects specified in Public Law 663, 
note;i8U s.c.§252; Sevcuty-niuth Cougress, $100,000. 
Senate policy committees: For salaries and expenses of the Majority 
Policy Committee and the Minority Policy Committee, $59,715 for 
each such committee; in all, $119,430. 
Joint Committee on the Economic Report: For salaries and expenses 
of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, $125,585. 
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: For salaries and expenses of 
the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, including the objects specified 
61 Stat. 16. 
in Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress, $160,135. 
Joint Committee on Printing: For salaries for the Joint Committee 
on Printing at rates to be fixed by the committee, $35,633; for expenses 
of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, 
$1,600; for compiling, preparing, and indexing material for the 
biographical directory, $1,600, said sum, or any part thereof, in the 
discretion of the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, may be paid as additional compensation to any employee of 
the United States; and for travel and subsistence expenses at rates 
provided by law for Senate committees, $4,500; in all, $43,333. 
Vice President's automobile: For purchase, exchange, driving, 
maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President, 
$5,480. 
Automobile for the President pro tempore: For purchase, exchange, 
driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the President 
pro tempore of the Senate, $5,480. 
Automobile for majority and minority leaders: For purchase, 
exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of two automobiles, one 
for the majority leader of the Senate, and one for the minority leader 
of the Senate, $10,960. 
Reporting Senate proceedings: For reporting the debates and 
proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, 
$125,532. 
Furniture: For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing 
furniture, $2,900. 
Furniture: For materials for furniture and repairs of same and for 
the purchase of furniture, $18,000. 
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Inquiries and investigations: For expenses of inquiries and investi-
gations ordered by the Senate or conducted pursuant to section 134 (a) 
of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, including compensation 
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for stenographic assistance of committees at such rates and in accord-
ance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee or 
Rules and Administration, but not exceeding the rate of 25 cents per 
hundred words for the original transcript of reported matter; and 
including $100,000 for the Committee on Appropriations, to be avail-
able also for the purposes mentioned in Senate Resolution Numbered 
193, agreed to October 14, 1943, and Public Law 20, Eightieth Con-
gress, $882,000: Provided^ That no part of this appropriation shall be 
expended for per diem and subsistence expenses (as defined in the 
Travel Expense Act of 1949) at rates in excess of $9 per day except 
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that higher rates may be established by the Committee on Rules and 
Administration in the case of travel beyond the limits of the con-
tinental United States. 
Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets at a gross 
rate not exceeding $2 per thousand, $28,875. 
Materials for folding: For materials for folding, $1,500. 
Fuel, and so forth: For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, 
exclusive of labor, $2,000. 
Senate restaurants: For repairs, improvements, equipment, and 
supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and 
Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be 
expended under the supervision of the Committee on Rules and Admin-
istration, United States Senate, $42,500. 
Motor vehicles: For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor 
vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the 
Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $9,560. 
Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, 
$786,895: Provided^ That the following Senate resolutions are amended 
as indicated: Number 453, agreed to February 26, 1931, by inserting 
$1,560 in lieu of $1,260; Number 340, agreed to December 3,1930, by 
inserting $1,740 in lieu of $1,440; Number 204, agreed to June 16, 
1938, by inserting $1,500 in lieu of $1,200; Number 372, agreed to 
December 18, 1930, by inserting $1,980 in lieu of $1,800; Number 175, 
agreed to July 7, 1943, by inserting $2,460 in lieu of $2,400; Number 
419, agreed to January 28,1931, by inserting $2,460 in lieu of $2,400; 
Number 230, agreed to March 16, 1942, by inserting $2,340 in lieu of 
$2,220; Number 62, agreed to December 15, 1931, by inserting $1,740 
in lieu of $1,440; Number 83, agreed to December 17,1931, by inserting 
$1,740 in lieu of $1,440; Number 428, agreed to February 17, 1931, by 
inserting $1,800 in lieu of $1,560. 
Packing boxes: For packing boxes, $3,000. 
Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $500; office of Sergeant at 
Arms, $225; offices of the secretaries for the majority and the minority, 
$100; in all, $825. 
Air-mail and special-delivery stamps: For air-mail and special-
deliverj stamps for Senators and the President of the Senate, as 
authorized by law, $12,815, and the maximum allowance per capita 
of $105.66 is increased to $132.07 for the fiscal year 1952 and there-
after. 
Stationery: For stationery for Senators and for the President of the 
Senate, including $10,000 for stationery for committees and officers of 
the Senate, $87,^0: Provided^ That commencing with the fiscal year 
1952 the allowance for stationery for each Senator and for the Presi-
dent of the Senate shall be at the rate of $800 per annum. 
The Sergeant at Arms is authorized and directed to secure suitable 
office space in post office or other Federal buildings in the State of each 
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Senator for the use of such Senator and in the city to be designated 
by him: Provided, That in the event suitable space is not available in 
such buildings and, a Senator leases or rents office space elsewhere, the 
Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the 
contingent fund of the Senate, vouchers covering bona fide statements 
of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum for each 
Senator. 
The Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Axms are author-
ized and directed to protect the funds of their respective offices by 
purchasing insurance in an amount necessary to protect said funds 
against loss. Premiums on such insurance shall be paid out of the 
contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers approved by the Chair-
man of the Committee on Eules and Administration. 
Salaries or wages paid out of thfe foregoing items under "Contingent 
expenses of the Senate" shall be computed at basic rates as authorized 
by law, plus increase and additional compensation as provided by the 
sW^c^t'ooinote "Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945", as amended, and the "Second 
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Arms and Doorkeeper shall take effect on the jBrst day of the first 
month following enactment of this Act. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SALARIES, MILEAGE, AND EXPENSES or MEMBERS 
For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, 
Delegates from Territories, and the Resident Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico, $5,492,500. 
For mileage and expense allowance of Members of the House of 
Representatives, Delegates from Territories, and the Resident Com-
missioner from Puerto Rico, as authorized by law, $1,273,500. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers and employees, as authorized by law. 
as follows: 
OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER 
For Office of the Speaker, $43,400. 
THE S P E A K E R ' S TABLE 
For the Speaker's table, including $2,000 for preparing Digest of 
the Rules, $30,490. 
OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN 
For the Office of the Chaplain, $6,555. 
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OFFICE OF THE CLERK 
For the Office of the Clerk, $593,843. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For committee employees, including a sum of not to exceed $275,000 
for the Committee on Appropriations, $1,700,000. 
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OFFICE o r T H E SERGEANT AT ARMS 
For Office of the Sergeant at Arms, $348,406. 
OFFICE OF T H E DOORKEEPER 
For Office of the Doorkeeper, $581,625. 
SPECIAL AND MINORITY EMPLOYEES 
For six minority employees, $50,165. 
For three special employees, $8,430. 
For office of the majority floor leader, including $2,000 for official 
expenses of the majority leader, $42,945. 
For office of the minority floor leader, $32,500. 
For two messengers, one in the majority caucus room and one in 
the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and 
minority whips, respectively, $6,050. 
For two printing clerks, one for the majority caucus room and one 
for the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and 
minority leaders, respectively, $6,805. 
For two clerks, one for the majority whip and one for the minority 
whip, to be appointed by said whips, respectively, $9,700. 
For a technical assistant in the office of the attending physician, to 
be appointed by the attending physician, subject to the approval of the 
Speaker, $5,720. 
OFF[CE OF T H E POSTMASTER 
For Office of the Postmaster, $161,240. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES 
For official reporters of debates, $114,936. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS TO COMMITTEES 
For official reporters to committees, $94,390. 
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEB 
For salaries and expenses, studies and examinations of executive 
agencies, by the Committee on Appropriations, and temporary per-
sonal services for such committee, to be expended in accordance with 
section 202 (b) of the Legislative Keorganization Act, 1946, and to be 
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available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, 
$225,000. 
CLERK HIRE, MEMBERS AND DELEGATES 
For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member and Delegate, 
and the Kesident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, in the discharge 
of his official and representative duties, as authorized by law 
$8,844,150. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE 
Furniture: For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, 
including labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, and 
for the purchase of packing boxes, $175,000. 
Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries 
unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including 
the sum of $47,500 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in 
2 U.S. C. §72a(b). 
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accordance with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 
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(Public Law 812); the operation, maintenance, and repair of the 
Clerk's motor vehicles; the exchange, operation, maintenance, and 
repair of the folding room motortruck; the maintenance, operation, 
and repair of the post-office motor vehicles for carrying the mails; 
the sum of $600 for hire of automobile for the Sergeant at Arms; 
materials for folding; and for stationery for the use of conmiittees, 
departments, and officers of the House; $250,000. 
Reporting hearings: For stenographic reports of hearings of com-
mittees other than special and select committees, $100,000. 
Special and select committees: For salaries and expenses of special 
and select committees authorized by the House, $800,000. 
Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: For the payment 
of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal 
Revenue Taxation, $180,000. 
Office of the Coordinator of Information: For salaries and other 
expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of Information, $69,000. 
Telegraph and telephone: For telegraph and telephone service, 
exclusive of personal services, $1,077,000. 
Stationery (revolving fund) : For a stationery allowance of $800 
for each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner 
from Puerto Rico, for the second session of the Eighty-second Con-
gress, $350,400, to remain available until expended. 
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, $8,985. 
Postage stamps: Postmaster, $200; Clerk, $400; Sergeant at Arms, 
$300; Doorkeeper, $250; United States airmail and special-delivery 
postage stamps for each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident 
Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and the Speaker, the majority and 
minority leaders, the majority and minority whips, and each standing 
committee of the House, as authorized by law; $35,600. 
Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate 
not exceeding $1 per thousand or for the employment of personnel at a 
rate not to exceed $5.20 per day per person, $85,000. 
Revision of laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as. 
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to be expended under the direction of the Committee on the Judiciary. 
Speaker's automobile: For exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, 
and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $6,175. 
Salaries or wages paid out of the items herein for the House of 
Representatives shall be computed at basic rates, plus increased and 
additional compensation, as authorized and provided by law. 
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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. 
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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; main-
tenance, 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 pro-
vide 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 Metro-
politan 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 instruc-
tions 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: Promded, That any 
person detailed under the authority of this para^aph or under 
similar authority in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, 
and the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, from the Metro-
politan 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. 
OFFICE OF T H E LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL 
For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Office of the Legis-
lative Counsel, as authorized by law, including increased and addi-
tional 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. 
J O I N T COMMITTEE ON REDUOFION OF NONESSENTIAL FEDERAL EXPENDITUBES 
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), 
Capitol Buildini^ 
and Grounds, etc. 
Additional protec-
tion. 
Beimbursement 
salaries, etc. 
Details from Metro-
politan Police, D. C. 
65 Stat. 466. 
64 Stat. 629. 
Disbursement. 
26 U. 8. C. note 
prec. § 3600. 
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to remain available during the existence of the committee, $20,000, 
to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate. 
EDUCATION 
OF 
SENATE 
AND 
HOUSE 
PAGES 
For education of congressional pages and pages of the Supreme 
Court, pursuant to section 243 of the Legislative Reorganization Act, 
^u*s*c^®§88a 
^^^^\ $29,850, which amount shall be advanced and credited to the 
applicable appropriation of the District of Columbia, and the Board 
of Education of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to 
employ such personnel for the education of pages as may be required 
and to pay compensation for such services in accordance with such 
rates of compensation as the Board of Education may prescribe. 
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS 
For the preparation, under the direction of the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the 
statements for the first session of the Eighty-second Congress, show-
ing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts 
authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appro-
priation bills as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons 
designated by the chairmen of such committees to supervise the work. 
ARCHITECT OF T H E CAPITOL 
OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL 
Salaries: For the Architect of the Capitol, Assistant Architect of 
the Capitol, Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant, and other 
personal services at rates of pay provided by law; and the Assistant 
Architect of the Capitol shall act as Architect of the Capitol during 
the absence or disability of that oflEicial or whenever there is no Archi-
tect, and, in case of the absence or disability of the Assistant Architect, 
the Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant shall so act; 
$134,300. 
Appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol 
shall be available for expenses of travel on official business not to 
exceed in the aggregate under all funds the sum of $3,000. 
CAPITOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Travel expenses. 
Capitol Buildings: For necessary expenditures for the Capitol 
Building and electrical substations of the Senate and House Office 
Buildings, under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, 
including minor improvements, maintenace, repair, equipment, sup-
plies, material, fuel, oil, waste, and appurtenances; furnishings and 
office equipment; special and protective clothing for workmen; per-
sonal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of art; pur-
chase or exchange, maintenance and operation of passenger motor 
vehicle; not to exceed $300 for the purchase of necessary reference 
books and periodicals; not to exceed $150 for expenses of attendance, 
when specifically authorized by the Architect of the Capitol, at meet-
ings or conventions in connection with subjects related to work under 
the Architect of the Capitol; $741,332. 
Completion of rotunda frieze, Capitol Building: For carrying into 
effect the provisions of Public Law 703, Eighty-first Congress, 
65 STAT.] 
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397 
approved August 17, 1950, entitled "Joint resolution to provide for 
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the utilization of the unfinished portion of the historical frieze in 
the rotunda of the Capitol to portray (1) the Civil War, (2) the 
Spanish-American War, and (3) the birth of aviation in the United 
States", $20,000, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol, as 
contracting and executive officer, under the direction, advice and 
approval of the Joint Committee on the Library. 
Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surround-
ing the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; Capitol Power 
Plant; personal and other services; care of trees; planting; fertilizers; 
repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; waterproof wearing 
apparel; maintenance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire 
of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with sec-
tion 3709 of the Kevised Statutes, as amended; $220,600. 
^
^ u. s. c. § 5. 
Legislative garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal 
and other services, and all other necessary expenses, $31,800. 
Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For 
maintenance, repairs, and rebuilding of the subway transportation 
system connecting the Senate Office Building with the Capitol, includ-
ing personal and other services, $2,600. 
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and 
supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment, and for 
labor and material incident thereto, and repairs thereof; for purchase 
of waterproof wearing apparel and for personal and other services; 
including five female attendants in charge of ladies' retiring rooms at 
$1,800 each, for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building; 
to be expended under the control and supervision of the Architect 
of the Capitol; in all, $733,572. 
Senate Restaurants: For repairs, improvements, furnishings, equip-
ment, labor and materials, and all necessary incidental expenses, to 
provide additional restaurant facilities in the Senate Office Building, 
to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the supervision 
of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, without regard 
to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, $18,500. 
«^^- s. c § 5. 
House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, 
waterproof wearing apparel, miscellaneous items, and for all neces-
sary services, $961,564. 
Capitol Power Plant: For lighting, heating, and power (including 
the purchase of electrical energy whenever such energy cannot be 
supplied by the Capitol Power Plant and also as provided by the Act 
of October 26, 1949 (Public Law 413, Eighty-first Congress)), for 
63Stat.933. 
the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Supreme Court 
Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about 
the same, Botanic Garden, legislative garage, and for air-condition-
ing refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such buildings; 
for heating the Government Printing Office and Washington City 
Post Office and for light and power therefor whenever available, 
reimbursement for which shall be made and covered into the Treas-
ury; personal and other services, fuel, oil, materials, waterproof 
wearing apparel, and all other necessary expenses in connection with 
the maintenance and operation of the plant, $1,267,600. 
Changes and improvements, Capitol Power Plant: Toward carry-
ing out the changes and improvements authorized by the Act of 
October 26, 1949 (Public Law 413, Eighty-first Congress), $3,000,000, 
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to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of 
the House Office Building Commission. 
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[65 STAT. 
LiBRART BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Structural and mechanical care: For the necessary expenditures 
for mechanical and structural maintenance, including minor improve-
ments, equipment, supplies, waterproof wearing apparel, and personal 
and other services, $320,000. 
Furniture and furnishings: For furniture, partitions, screens, 
shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, 
office and library equipment, apparatus, and labor-saving devices, 
$50,000. 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses incident to main-
taining, operating, repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden and 
the nurseries, buildings, grounds, collections, and equipment pertain-
ing thereto, including personal services (including not to exceed 
$3,000 for temporary labor without regard to the Classification Act 
63Stat 9
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of 1949) ; waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 for emer-
no^te. • • • * 
gency medical supplies; traveling expenses including streetcar fares, 
not to exceed $275; the prevention and eradication of insect and other 
pests and plant diseases by purchase of materials and procurement 
of personal services by contract without regard to the provisions of 
any other Act; purchase and exchange of motor-trucks; purchase and 
exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger motor 
vehicle; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of ref-
erence, not to exceed $100; and repairs and improvements to Director's 
residence; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the 
nurei?y'stock*'°° °
^ Library; $199,500: Provided, 
That no part of this appropriation 
shall be used for the distribution, by congressional allotment, of trees, 
plants, shrubs, or other nursery stock. 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
Salaries, Library proper: For the Librarian, the Librarian Emeri-
tus, and other personal services including special and temporary 
services and extra special services of regular employees (not exceed-
ing $5,000) at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, services as authorized 
60 Stat. 810. 
by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and per-
sonal services for printing and binding, $3,124,204, of which so much 
as may be necessary may be transferred to other agencies of the Gov-
ernment for the purpose of investigating the loyalty of Library 
employees, and for health service program as authorized by law. 
COPYRIGHT OFFICE 
Salaries: For the Register of Copyrights and other personal serv-
ices, including personal services for printing and binding, $914,510. 
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICE 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary personal services to enable the 
Librarian to carry out the provisions of section 203 of the Legislative 
2"u*s*'^^§i66anci ^Reorganization Act of 1946, including not to exceed $20,000 for 
note.' • • 
employees engaged by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the 
Librarian; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 
6
0 Stat.810. 
1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); printing and binding; and supplies and mate-
rials ; $800,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be 
65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 168—OCT. 11, 1951 
399 
used to pay any salary or expense in connection with any publication, 
or preparation of material therefor, (except the Digest of Public 
General Bills) to be issued by the Library of Congress. 
DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS 
Salaries and expenses: For the distribution of catalog cards and 
other publications of the Library, including personal services (includ-
ing not to exceed $30,000 for employees engaged in piecework and 
work by the day or hour and for extra special services of regular 
employees at rates to be fixed by the Librarian), personal services for 
printing and binding, freight and expressage, postage, traveling 
expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance 
at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of 
the Librarian, $566,891. 
UNION CATALOGS 
Salaries and expenses: To continue the development and mainte-
nance of the Union Catalogs, including personal services (including 
not to exceed $700 for employees engaged by the day or hour at rates 
to be fixed by the Librarian); personal services for printing and bind-
ing ; traveling expenses including expenses of attendance at meetings 
when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian; 
and other necessary expenses; $79,430. 
INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
General increase of the Library: For purchase of books, miscella-
neous periodicals and newspapers, photocopying supplies and photo-
copying labor, and all other material for the increase of the Library, 
including payment in advance for subscription books and society puo-
li cations, and for freight and expressage, postage, commissions, and 
traveling expenses not to exceed $25,000, including expenses of attend-
ance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction 
of the Librarian in the interest of collections, and all other expenses 
incidental to the acquisition of material for the increase of the Library 
by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, $270,000, to continue available 
during the next succeeding fiscal year. 
Increase of the law library: For the purchase of books and for legal 
periodicals for the law library, including payment in advance for legal 
periodicals and for legal society publications, and for freight and 
expressage, postage, commissions, traveling expenses not to exceed 
$2,500, including expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on 
the written authority and direction of the Librarian in the interest of 
collections, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of 
material for the increase of the law library, $85,500, to continue avail-
able during the next succeeding fiscal year. 
Books for the Supreme Court: For the purchase of books and 
periodicals for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Con-
gress, and purchased by the Librarian of the Supreme Court, under 
the direction of the Chief Justice, $22,500. 
BOOKS FOR ADULT BLIND 
To enable the Librarian of Congress to carry out the provisions of 
the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", 
approved March 3, 1931 (2 U. S. C. 135a), as amended, $1,000,000, 
46stat.i487. 
76100 O - 52 (PT. I) - 28 
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[65 STAT. 
including not exceeding $70,000 for personal services, not exceeding 
$200,000 for books in raised characters, and the balance remaining for 
sound-reproduction records and for the purchase, maintenance, and 
replacement of the Government-owned reproducers for sound-repro-
duction records for the blind and not exceeding $1,000 for necessary-
traveling expenses connected with such service and for expenses of 
attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and 
direction of the Librarian; and for printing and binding. 
PRINTING AND BINDING 
General printing and binding: For miscellaneous printing and 
binding for the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office, 
and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of Library books, $450,000. 
Printing the Catalog oi Title Entries of the Copyright Office: For 
the publication of the Catalog of Title Entries of the Copyright Office 
and the decisions of the United States courts involving copyrights, 
$39,500. 
Printing catalog cards: For the printing of catalog cards and of 
miscellaneous publications relating to the distribution of catalog cards, 
and for duplication of catalog cards by methods other than printing, 
$550,500. 
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES OF T H E LIBRARY 
Miscellaneous expenses: For miscellaneous expenses connected with 
the administration of the Library, and not otherwise provided for, 
including domestic and foreign postage, travel expenses, including not 
exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred 
on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, printing and 
binding, and personal services, supplies, and other necessary expenses 
for the operation of a photo-duplication service, and for the purchase 
of photoduplications, $80,000. 
LIBRARY BUILDINGS 
Salaries and expenses: For personal services, including personal 
services for printing and binding, and necessary miscellaneous 
expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of the 
library buildings; including not to exceed $750 for employees engaged 
by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, and including 
mail and delivery service, telephone service, special clothing, cleaning 
of special clothing of separated employees, medical supplies, equip-
ment, and expenses for the emergency rooms, housekeeping and mis-
cellaneous supplies and equipment, and other incidental expenses; 
$711,625. 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TRUST FUND BOARD 
For any expense of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not 
properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board, 
$500. 
Not to exceed ten positions in the Library of Congress may be 
exempt from the provisions of the section of the Chapter entitled 
Post. p. 755. 
"General Provisions" of the "Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952", 
concerning the employment of aliens, but the Librarian shall not make 
any appointment to any such position until he has ascertained that he 
cannot secure for such appointment a person in any of the three cate-
gories specified in such section who possesses the special qualifications 
65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 168—OCT. 11, 1951 
401 
for the particular position and also otherwise meets the general 
requirements for employment in the Library of Congress. 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
WORKING CAPITAL AND CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING 
To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the fol-
lowing purposes for the execution of printing, binding, lithographing, 
mapping, engraving, and other authorized work of the Government 
Printing Office for the various branches of the Government: For 
salaries of Public Printer and Deputy Public Printer; for salaries, 
compensation, or wages of all necessary officers and employees addi-
tional to those herein appropriated for, including employees necessary 
to handle waste paper and condemned material for sale; to enable the 
Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting holidays 
and half holidays and Executive orders granting holidays and half 
holidays with pay to employees; to enable the Public Printer to comply 
with the provisions of law granting leave to employees with pay, such 
pay to be at the rate for their regular positions at the time the leave is 
granted; rental of buildings and equipment; fuel, gas, heat, electric 
current, gas and electric fixtures; motor vehicles for the carriage of 
printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and 
operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes; purchase 
(not to exceed one at $2,700 for replacement only), operation, repair, 
and maintenance of passenger motor vehicles for official use of the 
officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by 
the Public Printer; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone serv-
ice, furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, including 
not to exceed $1,000 for attendance at meetings or conventions when 
authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing; stationery, postage, 
and advertising; directories, technical books, newspapers, magazines, 
and books of reference (not to exceed $2,000); adding and numbering 
machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character- pur-
chase of uniforms for guards; rubber boots, coats, and gloves; 
machinery (not to exceed $500,000); equipment, and for repairs to 
machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to 
buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the 
emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Print-
ing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on 
duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized 
by the Public Printer; for expenses authorized in writing by the Joint 
Committee on Printing for the inspection of printing and binding 
equipment, material, and supplies and Government printing plants 
in the District of Columbia or elsewhere (not to exceed $1,000); for 
salaries and expenses of preparing the semimonthly and session 
indexes of the Congressional Record under the direction of the Joint 
Committee on Printing (chief indexer at $8,000, one cataloger at $6,600, 
two catalogers at $5,628 each, and one cataloger at $5,015); and for 
all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment needed in 
the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work* in all, $19,200,-
000; to which sum shall be charged the printing and binding author-
ized to be done for Congress, including supplemental and deficiency 
estimates of appropriations; the printing, binding, and distribution 
of the Federal Register in accordance with the Act approved July 
26,1935 (44 U. S. C. 301-310) (not to exceed $480,000); the printing 
and binding of the supplement to the Code of Federal Regulations 
Salaries, etc. 
Holidays with pay. 
Machinery. 
Congressional 
ord indexes. 
Rec-
Federal Register. 
49 Stat. 500. 
Code of F e d e r a l 
Regulations. 
402 
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[65 STAT. 
as authorized by the Act of July 26, 1935, as amended (44 U. S. C. 
311) (not to exceed $200,000); the printing and binding for use of 
the Government Printing Office; the printing and binding (not to 
exceed $5,000) for official use of the Architect of the Capitol upon 
requisition of the Secretary of the Senate; in all to an amount not 
^„^°«^peiided bai- exceeding $9,200,000: Provided, That not less than $10,000,000 of such 
working capital shall be returned to the Treasury as an unexpended 
balance not later than six months after the close of the current fiscal 
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73 of the Act of January 12, 1895 (44 U. S. C. 241), no part of the 
foregoing sum of $9,200,000 shall be used for printing and binding 
part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture (known 
as the Yearbook of Apiculture). 
Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing 
appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on 
Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report con-
taining an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with 
a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost 
of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for 
which this appropriation is made. 
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During the current fiscal year any executive department or inde-
ments, etc. 
pendent establishment of the Government ordering printing and bind-
ing or blank paper and supplies from the Government Printing 
Office shall pay promptly by check to the Public Printer upon his 
written request, either in advance or upon completion of the work, 
all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, 
and bills rendered by the Public Printer in accordance herewith shall 
Adjustments. 
^^j^ ]QQ subject to audit or certification in advance of payment: Pro-
vided, That proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of 
delivered work paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly 
and as may be agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department 
to^o^king^(»pItTf°*^ ^^ establishment concerned. All sums paid to the Public Printer for 
work that he is authorized by law to do; all sums received from sales 
of waste paper, other waste material, and condemned property; and 
for losses or damage to Government property; shall be deposited to the 
credit of the appropriation made for the working capital of the 
Government Printing Office and be subject to requisition by the 
Public Printer. 
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tive branch. 
person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed 
for or performing service in the executive branch of the public service 
of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. 
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of 
Superintendent of Documents, including personal services in accord-
5iL*8.*oTio7inote. ^^^^ with the Classification Act of 1949, and compensation of 
employees who shall be subject to the provision of the Act entitled 
"An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers 
4
3 Stat. 668. 
^f ^j^g Govcmment Printing Office", approved June 7, 1924 (44 U. 
S. C. 40); traveling expenses (not to exceed $1,500); price lists and 
bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; and 
iib^a£.^°'"*^^''°'"°'^ supplying books to depository libraries; $2,700,000: Provided, 
That 
no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries any 
documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such 
libraries, and the requests therefor shall be subject to approval by the 
Superintendent of Documents. 
65 STAT.] 
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403 
GENEKAL PROVISIONS 
SEO. 102. Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropria-
tions under the "Government Printing Office", as provided for in 
the Printing Act approved January 12,1895, and without reference to 
the Act approved June 30, 1949 (Public Law 152) as amended by the 
Act approved September 5, 1950 (Public Law 754), concerning pur-
chases for the Federal Government. 
SEC. 103. In order to keep the expenditures for printing and bind-
ing for the current fiscal year w^ithin or under the appropriations for 
such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and 
independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing 
of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: 
Provided^ That where the printing of such reports is discontinued the 
original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads 
of the respective departments or independent establishments for public 
inspection. 
SEO. 104. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be 
used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. 
SEO. 105. Whenever any office or position not specifically established 
by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or 
whenever the rate of compensation or designation of any position 
appropriated for herein is different from that specifically established 
for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the desig-
nation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided herein, 
shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Promded, 
That 
the provisions relating to positions and salaries thereof carried in 
H. Res. 434, 464, 492, 493, 494, 534, 537, 587, 613, 626 and 693 of the 
Eighty-first Congress, and H. Res. 37 and 224 of the Eighty-second 
Congress shall be the permanent law with respect thereto. 
SEC. 106. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be paid as compensation to any person appointed after June 30, 1935, 
as an officer or member of the Capitol Police who does not meet the 
standards to be prescribed for such appointees by the Capitol Police 
Board: Provided^ That the Capitol Police Board is hereby authorized 
to detail police from the House Office, Senate Office, and Capitol 
Buildings for police duty on the Capitol Grounds. 
SEC. 107. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a 
strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member 
of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right 
to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow 
of the Government of the United States W force or violence: Pro-
vided^ That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered 
prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not, 
contrary to the provisions of this section, engaged in a strike against 
the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organiza-
tion of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against 
the Government of the United States, or that such person does not 
advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the 
overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or vio-
lence: Provided further^ That any person who engages in a strike 
against the Government of the United States or who is a member of 
an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to 
strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, 
or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow 
28 Stat. 601. 
44 U. S. O. § 1 et seq. 
63 Stat. 377; 64 Stat. 
578 
4i U. S. O. § 201note. 
A n n u a l , etc., re 
ports. 
Original copies. 
Private vehicles. 
Rate of compensji-
tion and designation 
of positions. 
46 Stat. 32. 
2 U. S. C. § 60a. 
Capitol Police. 
Standards required. 
Detail for duty on 
Capitol Grounds. 
Persons engaginig, 
etc., in strikes againist 
or advocating ov(jr-
throw of U. 8. Qov-
emment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
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[65 STAT. 
Short title. 
of the Government of the United States by force or violence, and 
accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any 
appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, 
upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for 
not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above 
penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any 
other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 108. This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch Appro-
priation Act, 1952". 
Approved October 11, 1951. 
October 11,1951 
[H. J. Res. 340] 
Public L a w 169 
CHAPTER 492 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making an appropriation for the Veterans* Administration for the 
fiscal 
year 1952. 
Resolved hy the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appro-
priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, the following sum: 
VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION 
SERVICEMEN'S INDEMNITIES 
Avtt, p. 33. 
For payment of liabilities under the Servicemen's Indemnity Act 
of 1951, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
Approved October 11, 1951. 
October 11,1951 
[H. R. 3932] 
Public Law 170 
CHAPTER 493 
AN ACT 
To provide vocational rehabilitation training for veterans with compensable 
service-connected disabilities who served on or after June 27,1950. 
64 Stat. 1121. 
38 U. S. C. § 701a. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Law 
894, Eighty-first Congress, approved December 28, 1950, is hereby 
amended by substituting for the words "subparagraph I (c), part I I " 
the words "part I". 
Approved October 11, 1951. 
October 11,1951 
[H. R. 5102] 
Public Law 171 
CHAPTER 494 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enlarge existing water-supply facilities 
for the San Diego, California, area in order to insure the existence of an 
adequate water supply for naval installations and defense production plants 
in such area. 
Navy Department. 
Water-supply facili-
ties for San Diego, 
Calif., area. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assetribled, That, subject to the 
provisions of section 3 of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy, under 
the direction of the Secretary of Defense, is authorized and directed 
to provide for—