An Act making appropriations for the legislative branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for other purposes
PL 87-130 (H.R.7208), enacted 08/10/1961

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Public Law 87-130 
August 10, 1961 
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[H. R. 7208] 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
June 30,1962, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
B^a^Ji Appro*rut United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
tion Act, 1962. 
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 30,1962, and for other purposes, namely: 
SENATE 
SALARIES or SENATORS, MILEAGE or THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE 
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MINORITY LEADERS OF THE SENATE, AND SALARY AND EXPENSE 
ALLOWANCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
COMPENSATION OF SENATORS 
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 au-
thorized, 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, $120,550. 
CHAPLAIN 
Chaplain of the Senate, $8,810. 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
For office of the Secretary, $708,400: Provided^ That effective July 
1, 1961, one additional clerk may be employed at $2,520 basic per 
annum; and the basic amount available for clerical assistance and 
readjustment of salaries in the Disbursing Office is increased by $3,240. 
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COMMITTEE 
EMPLOYEES 
For professional and clerical assistance to standing committees, and 
the Select Committee on Small Business, $2,551,200. 
CONFERENCE 
COMMITTEES 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Majority, at rates 
of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, 
$47,325. 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Minority, at rates 
of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, 
$47,325. 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL ASSISTANCE TO SENATORS 
For administrative and clerical assistants and messenger service 
for Senators, $11,938,395: Provided, That effective July 1, 1961, the 
basic clerk hire allowances of the Senators from the State of Florida 
are increased to that allowed Senators ^rova. States having a popula-
tion of five million, the population of said State having exceeded 
five million inhabitants. 
OFFICE OF SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER 
For office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $2,519,525: Pro-
vided, That effective November 1, 1961, twelve additional laborers at 
$1,680 basic per annum each; and two additional laborers at $600 
basic per annum each may be employed. 
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, $126,350: Provided, That effective July 1,1961, the 
respective Secretaries may fix the basic compensation of the assistant 
secretary for the majority and the assistant secretary for the minority 
at not to exceed $8,160 per annum each. 
OFFICES OF T H E MAJORITY AND MINORITY WHIPS 
For two clerical assistants, one for the Majority Whip and one for 
the Minority Whip, at not to exceed $6,900 basic per annum each, 
$28,340. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES 
For office of the Official Eeporters of Debates, $224,870. 
OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL OF THE SENATE 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel 
of the Senate, $232,240. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION 
For salaries and expenses, legislative reorganization, $125,940. 
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SENATE POLICY COMMITTEES 
For salaries and expenses of the Majority Policy Committee and 
the Minority Policy Committee, $133,975 for each such committee; 
in all, $267,950. 
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic Committee, 
$247,555, and in addition $12,000 to be derived by transfer from the 
appropriation for fiscal year 1961. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Atomic 
Energy, $294,010. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Printing, 
$114,125; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the 
Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $115,725. 
VICE P R E S I D E N T ' S 
A U T O M O B I L E 
For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an 
automobile for the Vice President, $8,710. 
AUTOMOBILE FOR THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE 
For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an 
automobile for the President pro tempore of the Senate, $8,960. 
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, $17,420. 
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 
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Senate or conducted pursuant to section 134(a) of Public Law 601, 
Seventy-ninth Congress, including $380,000 for the Committee on 
Appropriations, to be available also for the purposes mentioned in 
Senate Resolution Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, 
$3,797,210. 
FOLDING DOCUMENTS 
For the employment of personnel for folding speeches and pam-
phlets at a gross rate of not exceeding $1.90 per hour per person, 
$34,295. 
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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. 
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. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
ITEMS 
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $2,008,345. 
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 authorized by law, 
$55,550; 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 Ad-
ministration, of charges on official telegrams and long-distance tele-
phone 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), o 7o stat. aeo; 72 
$15,150. 
ADMINISTRATIVE 
PROVISIONS 
The second proviso in the paragraph relating to the authority of 
Senators to rearrange the basic salaries of employees in their respec-
tive offices, which appears in the Legislative Branch Appropriation 
Act, 1947, as amended (2 U.S.C. 60f) is amended to read as follows: 
73 stat. 443. 
'•'•Provided further^ That no salary shall be fixed in a Senator's office 
under this section at a basic rate of more than $5,100 per annum, 
except that (1) the salary of one employee may be fixed at a basic 
rate of not more than $6,540 per annum, (2) the salary of one em-
ployee may be fixed at a basic rate of not more than $8,040 per annum, 
(3) the salary of one employee may be fixed at a basic rate of not more 
that $8,460 j)er annum, and (4) the salary of one employee may be 
fixed at a basic rate of not more than $8,880 per annum." 
The contingent fund of the Senate is hereafter made available for 
the payment of mileage, to be computed at 10 cents per mile by the 
nearest usual route, between Washington, District of Cohmibia, and 
a point in the home State of the Senator involved, for UK.,. to exceed 
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four round trips originating and terminating in Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia, made by employees in each Senator's office in any 
fiscal year, such payment to be made only upon vouchers approved 
by the Senator containing a certification Dy such Senator that such 
travel was performed in line of official duty, but the mileage allowed 
for any such trip shall not exceed the round trip mileage b j the near-
est usual route between Washington, District of Columbia, and the 
residence city of the Senator involved. 
HOUSE OF EEPRESENTATIVES 
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), $10,672,000. 
MILEAGE OF MEMBERS AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF THE SPEAKER 
For mileage of Members and expense allowance of the Speaker, 
as authorized by law, $200,000. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers and employees, as authorized by law, 
as follows: 
O F F I C E O F THE SPEAKER 
For the Office of the Speaker, $62,900. 
OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENTARIAN 
For the Office of the Parliamentarian, including $2,000 for prepar-
ing the Digest of the Rules, $64,630. 
OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN 
For the Office of the Chaplain, $8,810. 
OFFICE OF THE CLERK 
For the Office of the Clerk, including $119,841 for the House 
Recording Studio, $1,146,025. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For committee employees, including the Committee on Appropria-
tions, $2,900,000. 
OFFICE OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS 
For the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including $8,000 for addi-
tional clerical assistants, $618,150. 
OFFICE OF THE DOORKEEPER 
For the Office of the Doorkeeper, $1,058,310. 
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SPECIAL AND MINORITY EMPLOYEES 
For six minority employees, $88,405. 
For the office of the majority floor leader, including $2,000 for 
official expenses of the majority leader, $72,805. 
For the office of the minority floor leader, including $2,000 for 
official expenses of the minority leader, $56,295. 
For the office of the majority whip, $29,720. 
For the office of the minority whip, $29,720. 
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, resi)ectively, $13,565. 
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, $11,535. 
OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER 
For the Office of the Postmaster, including $9,100 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, $316,210. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES 
For official reporters of debates, $202,915. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS TO COMMITTEES 
For official reporters to committees, $204,995. 
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 
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 Reorganization Act, 1946, and to be 
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available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, 
$550,000. 
OFFICE OF THE LEGISIATIVE COUNSEL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of 
the House, $225,750. 
MEMBERS' CLERK 
HIRE 
For clerk hire, necessarily employed by each Member in the dis-
charge of his official and representative duties, $20,400,000. 
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, $242,550. 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
ITEMS 
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically 
ordered by the House of Representatives, including the sum of $60,-
000 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with 
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section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 (Public Law 812); 
the 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; $2,550,000. 
REPORTING 
HEARINGS 
For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than 
special and select committees, $150,000. 
SPECIAL AND SELECT COMMITTEES 
For salaries and expenses of special and select committees author-
ized by the House, $2,900,000, of which such amount as may be neces-
sary may be transferred to the appropriation under such heading for 
the fiscal year 1961. 
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, $322,500. 
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 OF T H E COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of Infor-
mation, $108,245. 
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE 
For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, 
$1,300,000. 
STATIONERY (REVOLVING FUND) 
For a stationery allowance of $1,800 for each Member for the 
second session of the Eighty-seventh Congress, $788,400, to remain 
available until expended, of which $43,800 shall be derived from 
retained income of the stationery revolving fund. 
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 Dy 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. 
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POSTAGE STAMPS 
Postage stamp allowances for the second 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 
$2.54 per thousand or for the employment of personnel at a gross 
rate not exceeding $1.91 per hour per person, $236,500. 
REVISION OF LAWS 
For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by the Act 
approved May 29, 1928 (1 U.S.C. 59), $19,515, to be expended under 
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the direction of the Committee on the Judiciary. 
SPEAKER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and 
operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $10,000. 
MAJORITY LEADER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and 
operation of an automobile for the majority leader of the House, 
$10,000. 
MINORITY LEADER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and 
operation of an automobile for the minority leader of the House, 
$10,000. 
NEW EDITION OF UNITED STATES CODE 
For preparation of a new edition of the United States Code, 
$100,000, to remain available until expended, and to be expended 
under the direction of the Committee on the Judiciary. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
Salaries or wages paid out of the items herein for the House of 
Representatives shall hereafter be computed at basic rates, plus in-
creased and additional compensation, as authorized and provided 
by law. 
CAPITOL POLICE 
GENERAL EXPENSES 
For purchasing and supplying uniforms; the purchase, mainten-
ance, 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 mem-
ber 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. 
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CAPITOL POLICE BOARD 
To enable the Capitol Police Board to provide additional protec-
tion for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, including the Senate 
and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, $114,700. 
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 Co-
lumbia 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 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. 
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imbursement 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 ap-
propriations 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 sim-
55 Stat. 456, 
jjar authority in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, 
54 Stat. 629; 60 and the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, from the Metro-
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of such Metropolitan Police during the period or periods of any such 
detail for all purposes of rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and bene-
fits 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 Juljr 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 Commissioners of the District of Columbia are directed to 
paj 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 com-
pensation as may be subsequently provided by law so long as these 
positions are held by the present incumbents and that the Commis-
sioners 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 1961 plus $1,025 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 KEDUCTION 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 Non-
essential 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, $26,790, to 
be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate. 
EDUCATION OF PAGES 
For education of congressional pages and pages of the Supreme 
Court, pursuant to section 243 of the Legislative Reorganization Act, 
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'^^^^ $67,900, 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 
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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. 
PENALTY MAIL COSTS 
For expenses necessary under section 2 of Public Law 286, Eighty- 
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third Congress, $3,836,000, to be available immediately. 
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STATEMENTS OF APPROPRIATIONS 
For the preparation, under the direction of the Committees on 
Appropriations .of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the 
statements for the first session of the Eighty-seventh 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, $8,000^ 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, 
and Second Assistant Architect of the Capitol, at salary rates of 
$20,700, $19,000, and $17,500 per annum, respectively, and other per-
sonal services at rates of pay provided by law; and the Assist-
ant Architect of the Capitol shall act as Architect of the Capitol 
during the absence or disability of that official or whenever there is 
no Architect, and, in case of the absence or disability of the Assistant 
Architect, the Second Assistant Architect of the Capitol shall so act; 
$337,700. 
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. 
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. 
2131); personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of 
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amended; purchase or exchange, maintenance and operation of a pas-
senger motor vehicle; purchase of necessary reference books and pe-
riodicals; 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, $1,135,500. 
EXTENSION 
OF T H E 
CAPITOL 
For an additional amount for "Extension of the Capitol", 
$1,500,000. 
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 pave-
ments, walks, and roadways; waterproof wearing apparel; mainte-
nance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire of men and 
equipment or under contract without compliance with section 3709 of 
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the Revised Statutes, as amended; $446,000. 
SENATE OFFICE 
BUILDINGS 
For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including fur-
niture, furnishings, and equipment, and for labor and material inci-
dent thereto, and repairs thereof; for purchase of waterproof wear-
ing 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, including 
the subway and subway transportation systems connecting the Senate 
Office Buildings with the Capitol; uniforms or allowances therefor 
as authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
68 Stat. 1114. 
2131) ; to be expended under the control and supervision of the Archi-
tect of the Capitol; in all, $2,170,400: Provided^ That not to exceed 
$150,000 of the amount made available under this head for the fiscal 
year 1961 is hereby continued available until June 30,1963: Provided 
further^ That none of the funds made available to the Architect of 
the Capitol in this Act shall be expended for the operation of the old 
Senate subway system subsequent to the adjournment of the Eighty-
seventh Congress, first session. 
LEGISLATIVE 
GARAGE 
For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal and other services, 
and all other necessary expenses, $79,000. 
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGS 
For maintenance, including equipment, waterproof wearing ap-
garel, uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized by the Act of 
eptember 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2131), miscellaneous items, 
and for all necessary services, $1,639,000. 
ACQUISITION 
OF 
PROPERTY, 
CONSTRUCTION, 
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ADDI-
TIONAL 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 Representatives, 
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and other changes and improvements, authorized by the Additional 
House Office Building Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 41, 42), $6,000,000. 
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CAPITOL POWER PLANT 
For lighting, heating, and power (including the purchase of elec-
trical energy) for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, 
Supreme Court Building, Concessional 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 Printmg Office, Wash-
ington City Post Office, and Folger Shakespeare Library, reimburse-
ment for which shall be made and covered into the Treasury; per-
sonal and other services, fuel, oil, materials, waterproof wearing 
apparel, and all other necessary expenses in connection with the main-
tenance and operation of the plant; $2,052,000. 
LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL CARE 
For necessary expenditures for mechanical and structural mainte-
nance, including improvements, equipment, supplies, waterproof 
wearing apparel, and personal and other services, $3,748,000, of which 
not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for expenditure without regard 
to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and of wnich 
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$2,500,000 shall remain available until expended. 
FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS 
For furniture, partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work per-
taining thereto and repairs thereof, office and library equipment, 
apparatus, and labor-saving devices, $99,000. 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
SALARIES A N D 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 personal services; waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 
for emergency medical supplies; traveling expenses, including street-
car fares, not to exceed $275; the prevention and eradication of insect 
and other pests and plant diseases by purchase of materials and pro-
curement of personal services by contract without regard to the pro-
visions of any other Act; purchase and exchange 01 motor trucks; 
purchase and exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of a pas-
senger motor vehicle; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and 
books of reference, not to exceed $100; all under the direction of the 
Joint Committee on the Library; $489,000. 
LIBRARY OF 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; 
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special clothing; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia; and 
expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly 
chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board; 
$8,455,000. 
COPYRIGHT OrncE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the COT)yright Office, including publica-
tion of the decisions of the United States courts involving copyrights, 
$1,600,000. 
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), $1,809,200: Provided, That no part of this aj^propriation 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 unless such 
publication has obtained prior approval of either the Committee on 
House Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and Admin-
istration. 
DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the preparation and distribution of cata-
log cards and other publications of the Library, $2,347,000. 
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 
increase of the Library, $470,000, 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 otner material for the increase of the 
law library, $90,000, 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 by the Li-
brarian of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Jus-
tice, $38,000. 
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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, 
46 stat. us?; 7i 
$1,786,100. 
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ORGANIZING AND MICROFILMING THE PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Act of 
August 16, 1957 (71 Stat. 368), $112,800, to remain available until 
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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, $60,600. 
EEVISION OF ANNOTATED CONSTITDTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to enable the Librarian to revise and extend 
the Annotated Constitution of the United States of America, $25,000, 
to remain available until expended (S.J. Res. 176, September 13, 
1960; 74 Stat. 898-899). 
COLLECTION AND DISTRIBTJTION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS 
(SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) 
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of section 
104(n) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act 
of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704(n)), $400,000 of which $363,500 
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shall be available for the purchase of foreign currencies which accrue 
under that Act and which the Treasury Department shall determine 
to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States. 
ADMINISTRATip: 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 em-
ployees engaged by the day or hour or in piecework); and services as 
authorized by section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a). 
eo stat. «io. 
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. 
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GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
PRINTING AND BINDING 
For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; not to ex-
ceed $7,500 for printing and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; 
expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session index 
49 Stat. 1546. 
^o the Congressional Record, as authorized by law (44 U.S.C. 182); 
printing, binding and distribution of the Federal Register (including 
49 Stat. 502. 
^j^g QQ^J^ ^f 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; 
$13,400,000: 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 Agriculture) : 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 OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS 
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, 
43 Stat. 658. 
1924 (44 U.S.C. 40); travel expenses (not to exceed $1,500); price lists 
and bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; 
and supplying books to depository libraries; $4,724,000: 
Provided, 
That $200,000 of this appropriation shall be apportioned for use pur-
suant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
665), with the approval of the Public Printer, only to the extent 
necessary to provide for expenses (excluding permanent personal 
services) for workload increases not anticipated in the budget esti-
mates and which cannot be provided for by normal budgetary 
adjustments. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
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 
46 Stat. 32. 
by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or when-
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ever the rate oi compensation or designation of any position appro-
priated for herein is different from that specifically established for 
such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the desig-
iia^ io:i of tlie 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, 
officer?, and committees of the Senate and House, and clerk hire for 
Senators and Members shall be the permanent law with respect there-
to: Provided further. That the provisions relating to positions and 
salaries thereof carried in H. Res. 646 of the Eighty-sixth Congress 
and H. Res. 16, 138, 139, 219, and 225 of the Eighty-seventh 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 
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to detail police from the House Office, Senate Office, and Capitol 
IBuildings for police duty on the Capitol Grounds. 
This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch Appropriation 
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Act, 1962'-. 
Approved August 10, 1961. 
Public Law 87-131 
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August 10, 1961 
To include Ackia Battleground National Monument, Mississippi, and Meriwether 
[H. R. 6346] 
Lewis National Monument, Tennessee, in the Natchez Trace Parkway, and 
to provide appropriate designations for them, and for other purposes. 
Natchez Trace 
Be it enacted hy^ the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, to facilitate 
the administration of two areas of the national park system, known 
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as Ackia Battleground National Monument, Mississippi, and Meri-
wether Lewis National Monument, Tennessee, those areas are 
included in the Natchez Trace Parkway, which they adjoin; and they 
shall be administered as a part of the parkway. In order to provide 
continued recognition of the significance of these portions of the 
parkway, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide them with 
appropriate designations in accordance with the historical events 
w^hich occurred on them. 
Approved August 10, 1961. 
Public Law 87-132 
AN ACT 
August 10, 1961 
To amend paragraph 1798(c) (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930 to reduce temporarily 
[H. R. 6611] 
the exemption from duty enjoyed by returning residents, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph 
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1798(c)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C, sec. ancel. 
1201, par. 1798(c) (2)), is amended— 
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(1) by striking out "$200, if such person" in subdivision (A) 
and inserting in lieu thereof "$100 (or $200 in the case of persons 
arriving directly or indirectly from the Virgin Islands of the 
United States, not more than $100 of which shall have been 
acquired elsewhere than in the Virgin Islands of the United 
States) if such person arrives before July 1, 1963 (or $200 if 
such person arrives on or after July 1, 1963), and he either", and 
(2) by striking out "$300 in addition, if such person" in sub-
division (B) and inserting in lieu thereof "$300 in addition, if 
such person arrives on or after July 1, 1963, and he". 
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with 
respect to persons arriving in the United States on or after the 30th 
day after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 2. In applying paragraph 1798(c) (2) (A) of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended, to articles acquired in the Virgin Islands of the 
United States by any person who arrives in the United States (as 
defined in section 401 (k) of such Act) during the period beginning 
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on the 30th day after the date of the enactment- of this Act and ending 
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on June 30, 1963, the 48-hour requirement in such paragraph 1798 
(c) (2) (A) shall oe treated as satisfied. 
Approved August 10, 1961.