An Act making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes
PL 86-628 (H.R.12232), enacted 07/12/1960

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JPUBLIC LAW 86-628-JULY 12, 1960 
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Public Law 86-628 
July 12, 1960 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 12232] 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1961, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Branch ^Appropri- United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
ation Act, 1961. 
suHis are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30,1961, and for other purposes, namely: 
SENATE 
SALARIES OF SENATORS, MILEAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND 
OF SENATORS, EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY 
LEADERS OF THE SENATE, AND SALARY AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF 
THE V I C E P R E S I D E N T 
C O M P E N S A T I O N O F S E N A T O R S 
For compensation of Senators, $2,433,370. 
MILEAGE OF PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND OF SENATORS 
For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, $58,370. 
EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF MAJORITY AND MINORITY LEADERS 
For expense allowance of the majority leader and the minority 
leader of the Senate, $2,000 each; in all, $4,000. 
COMPENSATION OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 
For the compensation of the Vice President of the United States, 
$37,775. 
EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
For expense allowance of the Vice President, $10,000. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers, employees, clerks to Senators, and 
others as authorized by law, including agency contributions as author-
ized, which shall be paid from this appropriation without regard to 
the below limitations, as follows: 
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
For clerical assistance to the Vice President, at rates of compensa-
tion to be fixed by him in basic multiples of $5 per month, $112,140. 
CHAPLAIN 
Chaplain of the Senate, $8,195: Provided^ That effective July 1, 
1960, the gross compensation of the chaplain of the Senate shall be 
$8,195 per annum. 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
For office of the Secretary, $646,805. 
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COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For professional and clerical assistance to standing committees, 
and the Select Committee on Small Business, $2,372,960. 
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Majority, at rates 
of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $44,020. 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Minority, at rates 
of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $44,020. 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL ASSISTANTS TO SENATORS 
For administrative and clerical assistants and messenger service 
for Senators, $11,078,850. 
OFFICE OF SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER 
For office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $2,309,660: Pro-
vided^ That effective July 1,1960, the basic compensation of the super-
intendent of mails, Senate post office, shall be $3,540 per annum. 
OFFICES OF THE SECRETARIES FOR THE MAJORITY AND THE MINORITY 
For the offices of the secretary for the majority and the secretary 
for the minority, $115,575: Provided^ That effective July Ij 1960, the 
respective secretaries may fix the basic compensation of the chief 
telephone pages for the majority and minority at not to exceed $3,780 
per annum each; may fix the basic compensation of one telephone 
page for the majority and minority at not to exceed $2,880 per annum 
each; and may fix the basic compensation of one telephone page for the 
majority and minority at not to exceed $2,520 per annum each. 
OFFICES o r THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY WHIPS 
For two clerical assistants, one for the Majority Whip and one for 
the Minority Whip, at not to exceed $5,580 basic per annum each, 
$22,050. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES 
For office of the Official Keporters of Debates, $208,500: Provided^ 
That effective July 1, 1960, the official reporters of debates heretofore 
or hereafter appointed by resolution of the Senate shall be employees 
of the Senate and shall be compensated at the gross rate of $17,050 
per annum each '* Provided further^ That the said official reporters are 
authorized .to' appoint such reporters, transcribers, and other 
employees as may oe necessary and fix their compensation in basic 
multiples of $60 per annum. 
OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL OF THE SENATE 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel 
of the Senate, $216,950. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION 
For salaries and expenses, legislative reorganization $117,150. 
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SENATE POLICY COMMITTEES 
For salaries and expenses of the Majority Policy Committee and 
the Minority Policy Committee, $124,685 for each such committee; in 
all, $249,3Y0. 
J O I N T ECONOMIC COMMITTEE 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic Committee, 
$156,950. 
J O I N T COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 
$280,145. 
J O I N T COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Printing, 
$106,515; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the 
Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $108,115. 
VICE P R E S I D E N T ' S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an 
automobile for the Vice President, $8,245. 
AUTOMOBILE FOR T H E PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE 
For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an 
automobile for the President pro tempore of the Senate, $11,000. 
AUTOMOBILES 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, $16,490. 
FURNITURE 
For services and materials in cleaning and repairing furniture, and 
for the purchase of furniture, $31,190: Provided, That the furniture 
purchased is not available from other agencies of the Government. 
INQUIRIES AND INVESTIGATIONS 
For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate 
or conducted pursuant to section 134(a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-
2°ul*c*i9VbV 
ninth Congress, including $380,000 for the Committee on Appropria-
tions, to be available also for the purposes mentioned in Senate Resolu-
tion Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, $3,568,355. 
FOLDING DOCUMENTS 
For the employment of personnel for folding speeches and pam-
phlets at a gross rate of not exceeding $1.77 per hour per person, 
$31,900. 
SENATE 
RESTAURANTS 
For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate 
kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Build-
ings, including personal and other services, to be expended under the 
supervision of the Committee on Rules and Administration, United 
States Senate, $85,000. 
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MAIL TRANSPORTATION 
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, $16,560. 
MISCEIXANEOUS ITEMS 
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $1,974,105. 
POSTAGE STAMPS 
For postage stamps for the Offices of the Secretaries for the 
Majority and Minority, $140; and for airmail and special-delivery 
stamps for Office of the Secretary, $160; Office of the Sergeant 
at Arms, $125; Senators and the President of the Senate, as author-
ized by law, $55,550, and the maximum allowance per capita of $450 
is increased to $550 for the fiscal year 1961 and thereafter; in all, 
$55,975. 
STATIONERY (REVOLVING FUND) 
For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, 
$181,800; and for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, 
$13,200; in all, $195,000, to remain available until expended. 
COMMUNICATIONS 
For an amount for communications which may be expended inter-
changeably for payment, in accordance with such limitations and 
restrictions as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and 
Administration, of charges on official telegrams aiid long-distance 
telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the President of 
the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those authorized 
by the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 
(60 Stat. 392; 2 U.S.C. 46c, 46d, 46e), as amended, and the First 
Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U.S.C. 46d-l), 
$15,150. 
NADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The ninth paragraph under the heading "Administrative Provi-
sions" in the appropriations for the Senate in the Legislative Branch 
Appropriation Act, 1957 (2 U.S.C. 127) is amended by striking out 
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"two" where it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "four". 
No part of any appropriation disbursed by the Secretary of the 
Senate shall be available hereafter for the payment to any person, at 
the time of the service upon him of a subpena requiring his attendance 
at any inquiry or hearing conducted by any committee of the Congress 
or of the Senate or any subcommittee of any such committee, of any 
witness fee or any sum of money as an advance payment of any 
travel or subsistence expense which may be incurred by such person 
in responding to that subpena. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SALARIES, MILEAGE FOR THE MEMBERS, AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF 
THE SPEAKER 
COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS 
For compensation of Members (wherever used herein the term 
"Member" shall include Members of the House of Representatives and 
the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico), $10,672,530. 
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MIIiEAGE OF MEMBERS AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF THE SPEAKER 
For mileage of Members and expense allowance of the Speaker, as 
authorized by law, $200,000. 
SALARLES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers and employees, as authorized by law, 
as follows: 
OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER 
For the Office of the Speaker, $58,510. 
OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENTARIAN 
For the Office of the Parliamentarian, including $2,000 for pre-
paring the Digest of the Kules, $60,265. 
OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN 
For the Office of the Chaplain, $8,195. 
OFFICE OF THE CLERK 
For the Office of the Clerk, including $111,480 for the House Record-
ing Studio, $1,060,150. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For committee employees, including the Committee on Appropria-
tions, $2,650,000. 
OFFICE OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS 
For the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including $7,500 for 
additional clerical assistants, $571,720. 
OFFICE OF THE DOORKEEPER 
For the Office of the Doorkeeper, $985,180. 
SPECIAL AND MINORITY EMPLOYEES 
For six minority employees, $78,030. 
For the office of the majority floor leader, including $2,000 for official 
expenses of the majority leader, $67,865. 
For the office of the minority floor leader, including $2,000 for 
official expenses of the minority leader, $52,510. 
For the office of the majority whip, $27,645. 
For the office of the minority whip, $27,645. 
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, $12,620. 
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, $10,730. 
For a clerical assistant for the House Delegation to the North 
Atlantic Treaty Parliamentarians' Conference, as authorized, $6,345. 
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OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER 
For the Office of the Postmaster, including $8,500 for employment of 
substitute messengers, and extra services of regular employees when 
required at the basic salary rate of not to exceed $2,100 per annum 
each, $290,370. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES 
For official reporters of debates, $188,760. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS TO COMMITIEES 
For official reporters to committees, $190,690. 
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE 
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 Eeorganization Act, 1946, and to be 5°u?c*72'a.'*' 
available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, 
$500,000, of which such amount as may be necessary may be trans-
ferred to the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1960. 
OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel 
of the House, $210,000. 
MEMBERS' CLERK HIRE 
For clerk hire, necessarily employed by each Member in the dis-
charge of his official and representative duties, $16,300,000. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES or 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, $231,800. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically 
ordered by the House of Representatives, including the sum of $35,000 
for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with sec-
tion 208 of the Act approved October 9,1940 (Public Law 812); the 
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exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of the Clerk's motor 
vehicles; the exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of the 
folding room motortruck; the exchange, 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 committees, departments, 
and officers of the House; $2,450,000. 
REPORTING HEARINGS 
For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than 
special and select committees, $150,000. 
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SPECIAL AND SELECT COMMITTEES 
For salaries and expenses of special and select committees authorized 
by the House, $2,450,000. 
J O I N T COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL REVENUE TAXATION 
For the payment of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint 
Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, $300,000. 
J O I N T COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY POLICY 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Immigration 
and Nationality Policy, $20,000. 
OFFICE OP T H E COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of In-
formation, $100,690. 
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE 
For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, 
$1,275,000. 
STATIONERY (REVOLVING F U N D ) 
For a stationery allowance of $1,800 for each Member for the first 
session of the Eighty-seventh Congress, $788,400, to remain available 
until expended. 
ATTENDING P H Y S I C I A N ' 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 $75 per 
month each to five assistants as provided by the House resolutions 
adopted July 1, 1930, January 20, 1932, November 18, 1940, and May 
69 Stat. 499. 
21, 1959, and Public Law 242, Eighty-fourth Congress, $16,545. 
POSTAGE STAMPS 
Postage stamp allowances for the first session of the Eighty-seventh 
Congress, as follows: Postmaster, $320; Clerk, $640; Sergeant at 
Arms, $480; Doorkeeper, $400; airmail and special-delivery postage 
stamps for each Member, the Speaker, the majority and minority 
leaders, the majority and minority whips, and to each standing com-
mittee, as authorized by law; $183,640. 
FOLDING DOCUMENTS 
For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a gross rate not exceeding 
$2.36 per thousand or for the employment of personnel at a gross rate 
not exceeding $1.77 per hour per person, $250,000. 
REVISION OF LAWS 
For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by the Act 
approved May 29, 1928 (1 U.S.C. 59), $18,150, to be expended under 
the direction of the Committee on the Judiciary. 
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SPEAKER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and 
operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $9,500. 
MAJORITY LEADER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and 
operation of an automobile for the majority leader of the House, 
$9,500. 
MINORITY LEADER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and 
operation of an automobile for the minority leader of the House, 
$9,500. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
Salaries or wages paid out of the items herein for the House of 
Representatives shall hereafter be computed at basic rates, plus 
increased and additional compensation, as authorized and provided 
by law. 
CAPITOL 
POLICE 
GENERAL EXPENSES 
For purchasing and supplying uniforms; the purchase, mainte-
nance, and repair of police motor vehicles, including two-way police 
radio equipment; 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; $36,700. 
CAPITOL P O L I C E 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, $106,075. Such 
sum shall be expended only for payment of 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 are author-
ized 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 gov-
ernment 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 shall be available for all the 
purposes thereof: Provided^ That any person detailed under the 
authority of this paragraph or under similar authority in the Legisla-
tive Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, and the Second Deficiency 
ss stat. 456. 
Appropriation Act, 1940, from the Metropolitan Police of the District g^|^ ^^^^- ^29; eo 
of Columbia shall be deemed a member of such Metropolitan Police 
4o'usc 2i3a and 
during the period or periods of any such detail for all purposes of "°*^* 
rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits to the same extent as 
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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: Provided further^ That the Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia are directed to pay the captain 
and the lieutenant detailed under the authority of this paragraph 
the same salary as that paid the two lieutenants so detailed in fiscal 
year 1955 plus $625 and such increase in basic compensation as may 
be subsequently provided by law so long as these positions are held 
by the present incumbents and that the Commissioners of the District 
of Columbia are directed to pay the deputy chief detailed under the 
authority of this paragraph the same salary as that paid in fiscal year 
1959 plus $600 and such increases in basic compensation as may be 
subsequently provided by law so long as this position is held by the 
present incumbent. 
The foregoing amounts under "Capitol Police" shall be disbursed 
by the Clerk of the House. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON REDUCTION OF NONESSENTIAL 
FEDERAL E X P E N D I T U R E S 
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), to 
remain available during the existence of the committee, $24,910, 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, 
2°ul*c*8la^.^' 
1946, $64,100, 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 j)ages as may be required 
ana to pay compensation for such services in accordance with such 
rates of coinpensation as the Board of Education may prescribe. 
PENALTY MAIL COSTS 
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-^°^ expenses necessary under section 2 of Public Law 286, Eighty-
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third Congress, $3,269,000, to be available immediately. 
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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 second session of the Eighty-sixth Congress, show-
ing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts 
authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular 
appropriation bills as required by law, $8,000, to be paid to the persons 
designated by the chairmen of such committees to supervise the work. 
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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, 
and Second Assistant Architect of the Capitol, at salary rates of 
$19,000, $17,500, and $16,000 per annum, respectively, and other per-
sonal 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 official or whenever there is no Archi-
tect, and, in case of the absence or disability of the Assistant Architect, 
the Second Assistant Architect of the Capitol shall so act; $301,400. 
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 $20,000, and the 
limitation on such expenses for the fiscal year 1960 may be exceeded 
by $2,500. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES 
To enable the Architect of the Capitol to make surveys and studies 
and to meet unforeseen expenses in connection with activities under 
his care, $50,000. 
CAPITOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
CAPITOL B U I L D I N G S 
For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Building and electrical 
substations of the Senate and House Office Buildings, under the juris-
diction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improve-
ments, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, fuel, oil, 
waste, and appurtenances; furnishings and office equipment; special 
and protective clothing for workmen; uniforms or allowances therefor 
as authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
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2131) ; personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of 
art, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as 
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amended; purchase or exchange, maintenance and operation of a 
passenger motor vehicle; purchase of necessary reference books and 
periodicals; not to exceed $500 for expenses of attendance, when 
specifically authorized by the Architect of the Capitol, at meetings 
or conventions in connection with subjects related to work under the 
Architect of the Capitol, $1,140,000. 
CAPITOL 
GROUNDS 
For care and improvement of grounds surrounding 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; main-
tenance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire of men and 
equipment or under contract without compliance with section 3709 
of the Revised Statutes, as amended; $388,300. 
SUBWAY TRANSPORTATION, CAPITOL AND SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS 
For maintenance, repairs, and rebuilding of the subway transporta-
tion system connecting the Senate Office Buildings with the Capitol, 
including personal and other services, $6,000. 
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SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS 
For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furni-
ture, 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 eight female 
attendants in charge of ladies retiring rooms at $1,800 each, for the 
care and operation of the Senate Office Buildings; uniforms or allow-
ances therefor as authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. 2131) ; to be expended under the control and 
supervision of the Architect of the Capitol; in all, $2,338,400. 
68 Stat. 1114. 
EXTENSION OF ADDITIONAL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING SITE 
For an additional amount to enable the Architect of the Capitol, 
under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission, to carry 
72 Stat. 148. 
Qut the provisious of Public Law 85-429, Eighty-fifth Congress, relat-
ing to the acquisition of property in square 724 in the District of 
Columbia, including necessary expenses, $69,500, to remain available 
until expended. 
For an additional amount to enable the Architect of the Capitol, 
under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission, to carry 
72 Stat. 495. 
Qut the provlsious of Public Law 85-591, Eighty-fifth Congress, relat-
193a n<ft^8.^^'*''"^' 
ing to the acquisition of property in square 725 in the District of 
Columbia, including necessary expenses, $70,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
LEGISLATIVE GABAGE 
For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal and other services, 
and all other necessary expenses, $48,200. 
Not to exceed $64,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropria-
tion under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 
73 Stat. 409. 
I960, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1961. 
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGS 
For 
maintenance, 
including 
equipment, 
waterproof 
wearing 
apparel, unifoims or allowances therefor as authorized by the Act of 
68 Stat. 1114. 
September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2131), miscellaneous items, 
and for all necessary services, $1,682,600. 
ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT, ADDITIONAL 
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING 
To enable the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the 
House Office Building Commission, to continue to provide for the 
acquisition of property, construction, and equipment of an additional 
fireproof office building for the use of the House of Kepresentatives, 
and other changes and improvements, authorized by the Additional 
House Office Building Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 41, 42), $13,000,000. 
CAPITOL POWER 
PLANT 
For lighting, heating, and power (including the purchase of 
electrical energy) for 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-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such 
buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office, Washington 
City Post Office, and Folger Shakespeare Library, reimbursement for 
40 u s e 175 note. 
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which shall be made and covered into the Treasury; 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; $2,028,700. 
EXPANSION OF FACILITIES, CAPITOL POWER PLANT 
For expansion of the Capitol Power Plant facilities, $2,600,000, to 
be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the 
House Office Building Commission, in accordance with the provisions 
of the Act of September 2, 1958 (72 Stat. 1714-1716). 
CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS, CAPITOL POWER PLANT 
Toward carrying out the changes and improvements authorized by 
the Act of October 26, 1949 (63 Stat. 933), as amended by the Act; 
of June 27, 1956 (70 Stat. 367), $730,000, to be expended by the 
Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the House Office 
Building Commission. 
LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL CARE 
For necessary expenditures for mechanical and structural main-
tenance, including minor improvements, equipment, supplies, water-
proof wearing apparel, and personal and other services, $942,300, of 
which not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for expenditure without 
regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended. 
Not to exceed $107,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropria-
tion under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 
1960, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1961. 
'^ ^*"*- ^°^-
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, $123,300. 
ADDITIONAL LIBRARY BUILDING 
To enable the Architect, under the direction of the Joint Committee 
on the Library, to prepare preliminary plans and estimates of cost 
for an additional building for the Library of Congress, as authorized 
by Public Law 86-469, $75,000, to remain available until expended. 
^"'«' P- ^^a. 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For all necessary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, re-
pairing, and improving the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, build-
ings, grounds, collections, and equipment pertaining thereto, includ-
ing pereonal services (including not to exceed $3,000 for temporary 
labor witliout regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended); 
5\[fc* 10^71*note 
waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 for emergency 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; purciiase and exchange of motor trucks; purchase and exchange, 
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maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger motor vehicle; pur-
chase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to 
exceed $100; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the 
Library, $352,300. 
LIBKARY O F CONGRESS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Library of Congress, not otherwise 
provided for, including development and maintenance of the Union 
Catalogs; custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Buildings; 
special clothing; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia; and 
expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not prop-
erly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board; 
$7,667,800. 
COPYRIGHT OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, including publica-
tion of the decisions of the United States courts involving copyrights, 
$1,486,800. 
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 203 
of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended (2 U.S.C. 
60 Stat. 836. 
166), $1,660,200: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be 
used to pay any salary or expense in connection with any publication, 
or preparation of material therefor (except the Digest of Public Gen-
eral Bills), to be issued by the Library of Congress unless such publi-
cation has obtained prior approval of either the Committee on House 
Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. 
DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the preparation and distribution of cata-
log cards and other publications of the Library, $2,012,700. 
INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
GENERAL INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY 
For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquisition of 
books, periodicals, and newspapers, and all other material for the in-
crease of the Library, $400,000, to continue available during the next 
succeeding fiscal year. 
INCREASE OF THE LAW LIBRARY 
For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquisition 
of books, legal periodicals, and all other material for the increase of 
the law library, $90,000, to continue available during the next succeed' 
ing fiscal year. 
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B(X)KS FOR THE SUPREME COURT 
For the purchase of books and periodicals for the Supreme Court, 
to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the Librarian 
of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, 
$35,000. 
BOOKS FOR THE BLIND 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary salaries and expenses to carry out the provisions of 
the Act approved March 3, 1931 (2 U.S.C. 135a), as amended, «/f ^;,°*-^-^^^^'^ 
$1,710,700. 
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ORGANIZING AND MICROFILMING THE PAPERS or THE PRESIDENTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
2 u s e 131 note. 
60 Stat. 810. 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Act of 
August 16, 1957 (71 Stat. 368), $106,800, to remain available until 
expended. 
PRESERVATION OF EARLY AMERICAN MOTION PICTURES 
For necessary expenses to enable the Librarian of Congress to pro-
vide for the conversion to safety base film of the George Kleine Col-
lection of nitrate film, and the paper prints of early American motion 
pictures now in the custody of the Library, $60,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress for 
salaries shall be available for expenses of investigating the loyalty 
of Library employees; special and temporary services (including 
employees engaged by the day or hour or m piecework); and services 
as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 
55a). 
Not to exceed ten positions in the Library of Congress may be 
exempt from the ^provisions of appropriation Acts concerning the 
employment of aliens during the current fiscal year, but the Librarian 
shall not make any appointment to any such position until he has 
ascertained that he cannot secure for such appointments a person in 
any of the categories specified in such provisions who possesses the 
special qualifications for the particular position and also otherwise 
meets the general requirements for employment in the Library of 
Congress. 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
PRINTING AND BINDING 
For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; not to 
exceed $7,500 for printing and binding for the Architect of the Cap-
itol; expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session 
index to the Congressional Record, as authorized by law (44 U.S.C. 
182) ; printing, binding and distribution of the Federal Register 
^s stat. eoa. 
rincluding the Code of Federal Regulations) as authorized by law 
(44 U.S.C! 309, 311, 311a); and printing and binding of Government 
publications authorized by law to be distributed without charge to 
the recipients; $11,900,000: Provided^ That this appropriation shall 
not be available for printing and binding part 2 of the annual report 
of the Secretary of Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agncul-
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[74 ST A T . 
ture) : Provided further^ That this appropriation shall be available 
for the payment of obligations incurred under the appropriations 
for similar purposes for preceding fiscal years. 
OFFICE or SUPEKINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS 
43 Stat. 658. 
Private vehicles. 
46 Stat. 32. 
2 use 60a note. 
Official 
ses. 
Capitol Police. 
68 Stat. 849. 
22 u s e 1754. 
Expenditures. 
Report. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Docu-
ments, including compensation of all employees in accordance with 
the Act entitled "An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees 
and officers of the Government Printing Office", approved June 7, 
1924 (44 U.S.C. 40); travel expenses (not to exceed $1,500); price 
lists and bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machin-
ery; and supplying books to depository libraries; $3,849,200. 
GENEKAL PEOVISIONS 
SEC. 102. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be 
used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. 
SEC. 103. 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 
designation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided 
herein, shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: 
Provided, 
That the provisions herein for the various items of official expenses 
of Members, officers, and committees of the Senate and House, and 
clerk hire for Senators and Members shall be the permanent law with 
respect thereto: Provided 
further, 
That the provisions relating to 
positions and salaries thereof carried in H. Ees. 314, 335, 340, 418., 
429, 493, and 500 of the Eighty-sixth Congress shall be the permanent 
law with respect thereto. 
SEC. 104. 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. 105. (a) The second sentence of section 502(b) of the Mutual 
Security Act of 1954, as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
"Within the first sixty days that Congress is in session in each calen-
dar year, the chairman of each such committee shall prepare a con-
solidated report showing the total itemized expenditures during the 
preceding, calendar year of the committee and each subcommittee 
thereof, and of each member and employee of such committee or sub-
committee, and shall forward such consolidated report to the Com-
mittee on House Administration of the House of Representatives (if 
the committee be a committee of the House of Representatives or a 
joint committee whose funds are disbursed by the Clerk of the House) 
or to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate (if the com-
mittee be a Senate committee or a joint committee whose funds are 
disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate)." 
(b) Each member of the United States group or delegation to the 
Interparliamentary Union, the NATO parliamentarian's Conference, 
the Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group, the Mexico-
United States Interparliamentary Group, or any similar interparlia-
mentary group of which the United States is a member, and each 
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461 
employee of the Senate or House of Representatives, by whom or on 
whose behalf expenditures are made from funds appropriated for the 
expenses of such group or delegation, shall file with the chairman of 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate in the case of 
Members or employees of the Senate, or with the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs of the House- of Representatives in the case of Mem-
bers or employees of the House, an itemized report showing all such 
expenditures made by or on behalf of each Member or employee 
together with the purposes of the expenditure, including lodging, 
meals, transportation, and other purposes. Within sixty days after 
the beginning of each regular session of Congress, the chairman of the 
Committee on Foreign Relations and the chairman of the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs shall prepare consolidated reports showing with 
respect to each such group or delegation the total amount expended, 
the purposes of the expenditures, the amount expended for each such 
purpose, the names of the Members or employees by or on behalf of 
whom the expenditures were made and the amount expended by or on 
behalf of each Member or employee for each such purpose. The con-
solidated reports prepared by the chairman of the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate shall be filed with the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the consolidated reports prepared 
by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Aft'airs of the House 
shall be filed with the Coramittee on House Administration of the 
House. 
Each such consolidated report shall be printed in the Con-
gressional Record within ten days after receipt by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate or the Committee on House Administra-
tion of the House. 
(c) Section 60 of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 102) is amended 
by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows: 
"Reports of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House 
of Representatives under this section shall be printed as Senate and 
House documents, respectively." 
No funds made available in this or any other Act shall be used to 
pay the expenses of travel or subsistence for any trip made by any 
Senator or Representative between the District of Columbia and his 
home State in the case of a Senator, or his district in the case of a 
Representative, other than (1) trips which are specifically authorized 
by law for mileage or transportation expense of Senators and Repre-
sentatives, (2) official participation in the funeral services of deceased 
Senators or Representatives, or (3) official trips originating in the 
Senator's State or Representative's district during "periods when 
Congress is not in session. 
This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch Appropriation 
Act, 1961". 
Approved July 12, 1960. 
Public Law 86-629 
AN ACT 
j^iy j2, I960 
To provide for promotion of economic and social development in the Ryukyu 
[H. R. II5 7] 
Islands. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in the exercise ^^^ u k y u i 
by the President of the authority over the Ryukyu Islands granted the 
United States by article 3 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan, every 
3 UST 3172. 
Short title.