An Act making appropriations for the legislative branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for other purposes
PL 82-471 (H.R.7313), enacted 07/09/1952

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[H. R. 7313] 
Making approi)riations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1953, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Repr-esentatives of the 
L e gisiative United states of America in Congress assemhled^ That the following 
tion^Act, 1953^^*" suiiis are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year 
ending June f
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, 1958, namely: 
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SENATE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE or 
SENATORS, MILEAGE OF THE 
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND OF SENATORS, AND EXPENSE ALLOW-
ANCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
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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, as follows: 
OFFK^E OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, 
$80,000. 
For clerical assistance to the Vice President, at rates of compensa-
tion to be fixed by him in multiples of $5 per month, $55,410. 
CHAPLAIN 
Chaplain of the Senate, $2,946. 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
For office of the Secretary, $420,870, including one cameraman, Joint 
Kecording Facility, at the basic rate of $3,600 per annum, as authorized 
Ante, p. 101. 
by Public Law 375, Eighty-second Congress. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For professional and clerical assistance to standing committees, 
and the Select Committee on Small Business, $1,687,045. 
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Majority, at rates 
of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, 
$33,310. 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Minority, at rates 
of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $33,310. 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL ASSISTANTS TO SENATORS 
For administrative and clerical assistants and messenger service 
for Senators, $5,552,785, including additional clerical assistants for 
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each Senator from the State of Minnesota, as authorized by Public 
Law 282, Eighty-second Congress. 
OFFICE o r SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER 
For office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $1,245,750. 
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OFFICES OF T H E SECRETARIES FOR T H E MAJORITY AND T H E MINORITY 
For the offices of the secretary for the majority and the secretary 
for the minority, $62,165. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES or THE SENATE 
Legislative reorganization: For salaries and expenses, legislative 
reorganization, including the objects specified in Public Law 663, 
Seventy-ninth Congress, $100,000. 
Senate policy committees: For salaries and expenses of the Majority 
Policy Committee and the Minority Policy Committee, $64,670 for 
each such committee; in all, $129,340. 
Joint Committee on the Economic Report: For salaries and 
expenses of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, $133,275, 
including compensation for stenographic assistance at such rates and 
in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the 
Committee on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the pro-
visions of Public Law 304, Seventy-ninth Congress. 
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: For salaries and expenses of 
the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, including the objects speci-
fied in Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress, $188,060, and including 
compensation for stenographic assistance at such rates and in accord-
ance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee 
on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions of Public 
Law 585, Seventy-ninth Congress. 
Joint Committee on Printing: For salaries for the Joint Committee 
on Printing at rates to be fixed by the committee, $38,125; for expenses 
of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, 
$1,600; for compiling, preparing, and indexing material for the 
biographical directory, $1,900, 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, $46,125. 
Vice President's automobile: For purchase, exchange, driving, 
maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President, 
$5,835. 
Automobile for the President pro tempore: For purchase, exchange, 
driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Presi-
dent pro tempore of the Senate, $5,835. 
AiUtomobiles 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, $11,670. 
Reporting Senate proceedings: For reporting the debates and pro-
ceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, 
$135,785. 
Furniture: For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing 
furniture, $3,190. 
Furniture: For materials for furniture and repairs of same, and 
for the purchase of furniture, $18,000. 
Ante, p. 25. 
60 Stat. 911. 
60 Stat. 23. 
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61 Stat. 16. 
60 Stat. 755. 
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60 Stat. 831. 
61 Stat. 15. 
63 Stat. 166. 
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Communications. 
65 Stat. 760. 
Office space. 
Inquiries and investigations: For expenses of inquiries and in-
vestigations ordered by the Senate or conducted pursuant to section 
134 (a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, including com-
pensation for stenographic assistance of committees at such rates and 
in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Com-
mittee on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions 
of section 134 (a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress; and 
including $150,000 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, $974,120: 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 
that higher rates may be established by the Committee on Rules and 
Administration in the case of travel beyond the limits of the conti-
nental United States. 
Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets at a gross 
rate not exceeding $2 per thousand, $31,765. 
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 
Administration, United States Senate, $65,000. 
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, 
$801,955. 
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-
delivery stamps for Senators and the President of the Senate, as 
authorized by law, $12,815. 
Stationery: For stationery for Senators and for the President of 
the Senate, including $10,000 for stationery for committees and officers 
of the Senate, $87,600. 
Communications: For an amount for communications which may 
be expended interchangeably 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 and long 
distance telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the Presi-
dent of the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those 
authorized by the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tion Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 392; 2 U. S. C. 46c, 46d, 46e), the First 
Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U. S. C. 46d-l), 
and Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, Public Law 254, 
Eighty-second Congress, $14,550. 
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 Senator for the use of such Senator and in the city to be desig-
nated by him: Provided, That in the event suitable space is not avail-
able in such buildings and a Senator leases or rents office space else-
where, the Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, 
from the contingent fund of the Senate, vouchers covering bona fide 
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statements of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum 
for each Senator. 
The Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms are author- £UJ,3B^."'"^"'^* °' 
ized and directed to protect the funds of their respective offices by 
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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 Rules and Administration. 
Salaries or wages paid out of the foregoing items under "Contingent 
expenses of the Senate" shall be computed at basic rates, plus 
increased and additional compensation, as authorized and provided 
by law. 
HOUSE OF EEPRESENTATIVES 
SALARIES, MILEAGE, AND EXPENSES OF 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; PTO-
vided, That for the two taxable years beginning after December 31, 
1952, the place of residence of a Member of Congress (including any 
Delegate and Resident Commissioner) within the State, congressional 
district, Territory, or possession which he represents in Congress shall 
be considered to be his home for the purposes of section 23 (a) (1) (A) 
of the Internal Revenue Code, but amounts expended by such Member 
\% use tl?' 
within each such taxable year for living expenses shall not be deducti-
ble for income tax purposes in excess of $3,000. 
AMENDMENT TO INTERNAL REVENUE CODE 
Section 23 (k) of the Internal Revenue Code (relating to deductions 
56 stat. 820. 
for bad debts) is amended by adding at the end thereof a new para-
graph as follows: 
"(6) EXCEPTION.—This subsection shall not apply in the case 
of a taxpayer, other than a bank, as defined in section 104, with 
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respect to debts owed by (A) any political party, (B) any national, 
state, or local committee of any political party, or (C) any com-
mittee, association, or organization which accepts contributions 
or makes expenditures for the purpose of influencing or attempting 
to influence the election of Presidential or Vice Presidential 
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electors or of any individual whose name is presented for election 
to any Federal, State, or local elective public office, whether or 
not such individual is elected. 
For the purpose of this paragraph, 
the terms 'contributions' and 'expenditure' shall have the meanings 
prescribed for such terms in section 591 of title 18 of the United 
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States Code." 
The amendment made by this paragraph shall be applicable with 
respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1951. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers and employees, as authorized by law, 
as follows: 
OFFICE OF T H E SPEAKER 
For Office of the Speaker, $47,285. 
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For the Speaker's table, including $2,000 for preparing Digest of 
the Rules, $43,885. 
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CHAPLAIN 
' For the Office of the Chaplain, $7,245. 
OFFICE OF T H E CLERK 
For the Office of the Clerk, $660,813: Provided^ That in connection 
with the operation of the Joint Senate and House Recording Facility 
an additional position of laboratory technician, to be compensated at 
the basic rate of $3,300 per annum, is hereby authorized. 
COMMITIEE EMPLOYEES 
For committee employees, including a sum of not to exceed 
$302,215 for the Committee on Appropriations, $1,760,000. 
OFFICE OF T H E SERGEANT AT ARMS 
For Office of the Sergeant at Arms, $384,045. 
OFFICE OF T H E DOORKEEPER 
For Office of the Doorkeeper, $651,970. 
SPECIAL AND MINORITY EMPLOYEES 
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For six minority employees, $54,685. 
For office of the majority floor leader, including $2,000 for official 
expenses of the majority leader, $46,755. 
For office of the minority floor leader, $35,380. 
For two messengers, one in the majority caucus room and one in the 
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minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and minority 
whips, respectively, $6,655. 
For two printing clerks, one for the majority caucus room and one 
for the minority caucas room, to be appointed by the majority and 
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minority leaders, respectively, $7,485. 
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For two clerks, one for the majority whip and one for the minority 
whip, to be appointed by said whips, respectively, $10,670. 
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, $6,295. 
OFFICE OF T H E POSTMASTER 
For Office of the Postmaster, $177,230. 
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O F F I C I A L R E P O R T E R S O F D E B A T E S 
f[ For official reporters of debates, $124,435. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS TO COMMITTEES 
For official reporters to committees, $102,120. 
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE 
For salaries and expenses, studies and examinations of executive 
agencies, by the Committee on Appropriations, and temporary per-
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sonal services for such committee, to be expended in accordance 
with section 202 (b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act, 1946, 
2°irac%2a.'** 
and to be available for reimbursement to agencies for services per-
formed, $250,000. 
CLERK HIRE, MEMBERS AND DELEGATES 
For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member and Delegate, 
and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, in the discharge of 
his official and representative duties, as authorized by law, $9,678,565. 
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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, $180,000. 
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 
accordance with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 
(Public Law 812); the exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair 
54 stat. lose. 
of the Clerk's motor vehicles; the exchange, operation^ maintenance, 
and repair of the folding room motortruck; the exchange, mainte-
nance, 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; $501,500. 
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 
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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, $190,000. 
Office of the Coordinator of Information: For salaries and other 
expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of Information, $75,750. 
Telegraph and telephone: For telegraph and telephone service, 
exclusive of personal services, $750,000. 
Stationery (revolving fund) : For a stationery allowance of $800 
for each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner 
from Puerto Rico, for the first session of the Eighty-third Congress, 
$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 stand-
ing committee of the House, and after June 30, 1952, the amount 
allowed to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico for each fiscal year shall be $125 each and to standing 
committees $50 each; $58,000. 
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45 Stat. 1008. 
Office space. 
Definitions. 
Defraying of des-
ignated expenses, 
restriction. 
Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a 
rate not exceeding $1 per thousand or for the employment of per-
sonnel at a rate not to exceed $5.20 per day per person, $110,000. 
Revision of laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as 
authorized by the Act approved May 29, 1928 (1 U. S. C. 59), $13,700, 
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, $6,660. 
Preparation of New United States Code: For the preparation of 
a new edition of the United States Code, $100,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
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. 
The Sergeant at Arms is authorized and directed to secure suitable 
office space in post offices or other Federal buildings in each district 
represented by a Member of the House of Representatives for the use 
of such Member and at a place in such district which such Member, 
may designate: Provided^ That in the event suitable office space is 
not available in such buildings and a Member leases or rents office 
space elsewhere, the Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for 
payment, from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, 
vouchers covering bona fide statements of rentals due in an amount not 
exceeding $900 per annum for each such Member. 
For the purposes 
of this paragraph (1) the terms "Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives" and "Member" include the Delegate from Alaska, the 
Delegate from Hawaii, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto 
Rico, and (2) the term "district" includes Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto 
Rico, and, in the case of a Representative-at-large, a State, 
No part of the appropriation contained in this Act for the con-
tingent 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. 
The provisions of House Resolution 318, Eighty-second Congress 
(relating to electrical or mechanical office equipment for the use of 
Members, officers, and committees of the House of Representatives), 
are hereby continued in effect; and the appropriations for "Clerk 
Hire, Members and Delegates" contained in this and subsequent Acts 
are hereby made available for the purpose set forth in subsection (c) 
of such resolution. 
CAPITOL POLICE 
Metropolitan Po-
lice, D.C. 
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 provide 
additional protection for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, includ-
ing the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power 
Plant, $18,440. Such sum shall only be expended for payment for 
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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: Provided^ That any per-
son detailed under the authority of this paragraph or under similar 
authority in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, and 
the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, from the Metropolitan 
Police of the District of Columbia shall be deemed a member of such 
Metropolitan Police during the period or periods of any such detail 
for all purposes of rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits to 
the same extent as though such detail had not been made, and at the 
termination thereof any such person who was a member of such police 
on July 1, 1940, shall have a status with respect to rank, pay, allow-
ances, 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. 
55 Stat. 456. 
54 Stat. 629. 
Disbvirsement. 
OFFICE OF T H E LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL 
For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Office of the Leg-
islative Counsel, as authorized by law, including increased and addi-
tional compensation as provided by law, $233,000, of which $119,000 
shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $114,000 by the 
Clerk of the House of Representatives. 
JOINT 
COMMITTEE 
ON 
REDUCTION 
OF 
NONESSENTIAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES 
For an amount to enable the Joint Committee on Reduction of 
Nonessential Federal Expenditures to carry out the duties imposed 
upon it by section 601 of the Revenue Act of 1941 (55 Stat. T26), to 
remain available during the existence of the committee, $20,000, to be 
disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate. 
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3600. 
EDUCATION OF SENATE 
AND HOUSE PAGES 
For education of congressional paojes and pages of the Supreme 
Court, pursuant to section 243 of the Legislative Reorganization Act, 
1946, $33,220, 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. 
60 Stat. 839. 
2 u s e 88a. 
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS 
For the preparation, under the direction of the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the 
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statements for the second 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, f4,000, 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 official or whenever there is no Archi-
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tect, and, in case of the absence or disability of the Assistant Architect, 
the Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant shall so act; 
$143,200. 
Travel expenses. 
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 
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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, maintenance, 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 meetings or 
conventions in connection with subjects related to work under the 
Architect of the Capitol; $695,800: Provided, That $29,000 of the 
amount made available under this head for the fiscal year 1952 shall 
remain available until June 30,1953. 
Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surround-
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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 
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section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; $240,000. 
Legislative garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal 
and other services, and all other necessary expenses, $34,800. 
Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For 
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maintenance, repairs, and rebuilding of the subway transportation 
system connecting the Senate Office Building wdth the Capitol, includ-
ing personal and other services, $10,100. 
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 
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the Capitol Avho shall after June 30, 1952, maintain service in all 
facilities for the House of Representatives under his jurisdiction for 
not less than one half hour after daily adjournn.^nt of the House of 
Representatives; in all, $768,975. 
House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, 
waterproof wearing apparel, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary 
services, $961,300: Provided^ That of the amounts made available 
under this head for the fiscal year 1952, $70,000 shall remain available 
until June 30, 1953. 
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, legisla-
tive garage, and for air-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from 
plants in any of such buildings; for heating the Government Print-
ing Office and Washington City Post Office, reimbursement for 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, $1,359,000. 
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, 
63 stat. 933. " 
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 the necessary expenditures 
for mechanical and structural maintenance, including minor improve-
ments, equipment, supplies, waterproof wearing apparel, and per-
sonal and other services, $335,000. 
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 per-
taining thereto, including personal services (including not to exceed 
$3,000 for temporary labor without regard to the Classification Act 
of 1949) ; waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 for emer- 
f^J^Voyi^Aot 
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 reference, not to exceed $100; repairs and improvements to Direc-
tor's residence; and demolition and removal of small conservatory 
and adjoining structure from Reservation 6-B, bounded by Canal 
Street and Independence Avenue and Second Street; all under the 
direction of the Joint Committee on the Library; $218,500; Provided, 
Nursery stock. 
That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the distribution, 
by congressional allotment, of trees, plants, shrubs, or other nursery 
stock. 
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
Salaries, Library proper: For the Librarian, the Librarian Emeritus, 
and other personal services including special and temporary services 
and extra special services of regular employees (not exceeding $5,000) 
at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, services as authorized by section 
60 Stat. 810. 
15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and personal services 
for printing and binding, $3,470,000, of which so much as may be neces-
sary may be transferred to other agencies of the Government for the 
purpose of investigating the loyalty of Library employees, and for 
health service program as authorized by law. 
COPYRIGHT O m C E 
Salaries: For the Register of Copyrights and other personal services, 
including personal services for printing and binding, $1,008,409. 
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°usc**i66^and Reorganization Act of 1946, including not to exceed $20,000 for 
"°*e« 
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, 
60 Stat. 810. 
1946 (5 XJ. S. C. 55a); printing and binding; and supplies and mate-
rials; $891,159: 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 
General Bills) to be issued by the Library of Congress. 
REVISION OF ANNOTATED OONSTITDTION 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary personal services to enable the 
Librarian to revise and extend the Annotated Constitution of the 
L^nited States of America, to include Supreme Court cases through the 
1951-52 term, $3,000. 
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, 
$648,607. 
U N I O N 
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 bindijig; traveling expenses including expenses of attendance 
at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction 
of the Librarian; and other necessary expenses; $85,492. 
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iT§ 
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 
publications, and for freight and expressage, postage, commissions, 
and traveling expenses not to exceed $25,000, 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 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 available 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 
Congress, and purchased b^ 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, 
^estat. i487. 
including not exceeding $77,330 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-
reproduction records for the blind and not exceeding $2,000 for neces-
sary 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 of 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, 
$44,500. _ 
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, 
$586,500. 
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES OF THE 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 
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[66 S T A T . 
exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred 
on the written authority and direction of tlie 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. 
E m p 1 o yment of 
aliens. 
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, equipment, 
and expenses for the emergency rooms, housekeeping and miscellaneous 
supplies and equipment, and other incidental expenses; $794,820. 
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 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 appointment a person in any of the three 
categories specified in such provisions who possesses the special qualifi-
cations for the particular position and also otherwise meets the general 
requirements for employment in the Library of Congress. 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
Salaries. 
H o l i d a y s with 
pay. 
WORKING CAPITAL AND CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING 
To provide the Public Printer with working capital for the follow-
ing 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 holi-
days 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; 
l)urchase (not to exceed two 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 
service, furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, in-
cluding not to exceed $1,000 for attendance at meetings or conventions 
when authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing; stationery, 
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477 
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; purchase of uniforms for guards; rubber boots, coats, and 
gloves; machinery (not to exceed $500,000) ; equipment, and for re-
pairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor altera-
tions to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies 
for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Govern-
ment Printing 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 print-
ing 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 $8,800, one cata-
loger at $7,260, two catalogers at $6,191 each, and one cataloger at 
$5,517); and for all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equip-
ment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work; 
in all, $19,000,000; to which sum shall be charged the printing and 
binding authorized 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 
$850,000) ; the printing and binding of the supplement to the Code of 
Federal Regulations as authorized by the Act of July 26, 1935, as 
amended (44 U. S. C. 311) (not to exceed $400,000); 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 exceeding $9,000,000: 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 year: Provided 
further^ That notwithstanding 
the provisions of section 73 of the Act of January 12,1895 (44 U. S. C. 
241), no part of the foregoing sum of $9,000,000 shall be used for 
printing and binding part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of 
Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture). 
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. 
During the current fiscal year any executive department or inde-
pendent establishment of the Government ordering printing and 
binding 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 
not be 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 
or establishment concerned. 
All sums paid to the Public Printer for 
work that he is authorized by law to do; all sums received from sales 
Machines. 
C o n g r e ssional 
Record indexes. 
F e d e r a l Regis-
ter. 
49 Stat. 500. 
Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
Unexpended bal-
ance. 
Yearbook of Agri-
culture. 
28 Stat. 612. 
Payment for work 
ordered by depart-
ments, etc. 
Adjustments. 
C r e d i t of p a y -
m e n t s to working 
capital. 
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E m p l o y e e s de-
tailed to executive 
branch. 
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 Gov-
ernment Printing Office and be subject to requisition by the Public 
Printer. 
No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any 
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. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
43 Stat. 658. 
B o o k s for de-
pository libraries. 
28 Stat. 601. 
44 u s e let seq. 
63 Stat. 377; 64 
Stat. 578. 
41 u s e 201 note. 
Annual reports. 
Private vehicles. 
Rate of c o mpen-
sation, etc. 
46 Stat. 32. 
2 u s e 60a. 
eapitol Police. 
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of 
Superintendent of Documents, including personal services in accord-
ance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and compensa-
tion 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 of the Government 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 supplying books to depository libraries; $2,817,120: 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. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriations 
under the "Government Printing Office", as provided for in the Print-
ing 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 purchases 
for the Federal Government. 
SEC. 103. In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding 
for the current fiscal year within or under the appropriations for such 
fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and inde-
pendent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of 
annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: Pro-
vided^ 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. 
SEC. 104. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be 
used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. 
SEC. 105. Whenever any office or position not specifically established 
by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or when-
ever the rate of compensation or designation of any position appropri-
ated 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 
relating to positions and salaries thereof carried in H. Res. 277 and 
308 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 
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479 
Affidavit. 
Board: Provided^ That the Capitol Police Board is hereby authorized oromrfs!" ^®P"°^ 
to detail police from the House Office, Senate Office, and Capitol 
Buildings for police duty on the Capitol Grounds. 
SEO. 107, No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall ti^^'^of'coverm 
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a '"*'^** 
strike against the Government of the United States or w^ho is a mem-
ber of an organization of Government employees that asserts the 
right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who 
advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the over-
throw of the Government of the United States by force or violence: 
Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be con-
sidered 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 
organization 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 advo-
cates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by 
force or violence: 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 advo-
cates, the overthrow 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, T|hat the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and 
not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. 
This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch Appropriation 
Act, 1953". 
Approved July 9, 1952. 
Penalty. 
Short title. 
Public Law 472 
CHAPTER 599 
AN ACT 
To provide that horticultural commodities shall be included within the term 
"agricultural commodities" for the purpose of the agricultural exemption for 
motor carriers in the Interstate Commerce Act. 
July 9, 1952 
[S. 2357] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America, in Congress assembled, That clauses (4a) 
and (6) of subsection (b) of section 203 of the Interstate Commerce 
Act are amended by inserting after "agricultural" in each such clause 
the following: "(including horticultural)". 
Approved July 9, 1952. 
49 Stat. 545. 
49 u s e 303(b). 
Public Law 473 
To amend the Act entitled 
CHAPTER 600 
AN ACT 
"An Act to assist Federal prisoners in their 
July 9, 1952 
[S. 3276] 
rehabilitation." 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^ssembled. That section 2 of 
the Act of May 15, 1952 (Public Law 342, Eighty-second Congress), 
Ante, p. 73.