An Act making appropriations for the legislative branch and the judiciary branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes
PL 83-470 (H.R.9203), enacted 07/02/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 469-JULY 1, 1954 
STAT, 
Vehicle mainte> 
nance, etc» 
Short title. 
SEC. 18. The Commissioners are authorized to establish a permanent 
working fund, which shall be available without fiscal-year limitation, 
for necessary expenses of maintenance and repair of vehicles of the 
Government of the District of Columbia; and said fund shall be reim-
bursed, or credited in advance if required by the Director, Department 
of Highways, for the costs of all work performed thereunder. 
SEC. 19. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appro-
priation Act, 1955." 
Approved July 1, 1954. 
July 1, 1954 
[S. J. R V S . 72] 
Public Law 469 
CHAPTER 454 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to further extend certain charters of 
vessels to citizens of the Philippines, and for other purposes. 
Philippines. 
Charters of ves-
•elB* 
60 Stat. 137. 
67 Stat. 110. 
50 u s e 
a p p . 
1786 note. 
Resol'ved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assernbled, That, notwithstanding any 
other provisions of existing law, the Secretary of Commerce is author-
ized to extend and continue the present charters of vessels to citizens of 
the Republic of the Philippines, which charters were made and entered 
into under the terms of section 306 (a) of the Act of April 30, 1946 
(Public Law 370, Seventy-ninth Congress), and which charters were 
extended by the Secretary of Commerce under the terms of a joint 
resolution, approved June 30, 1953 (Public Law^ 87, Eighty-third 
Congress). 
Such charters may be further extended for such periods 
of time and under such terms and conditions as the Secretary may, 
from time to time, determine to be required in the interest of the 
economy of the Philippines, but any such charter shall contain a 
provision requiring that the vessel shall be operated only in the inter-
island commerce in the Philippines. 
No such vessel shall be con-
tinued under charter, as authorized herein, beyond the completion of 
the first voyage terminating after June 30,1955. 
Approved July 1, 1954. 
js 
uly 2, 1954 
R. 9203] 
Public Law 470 
CHAPTER 455 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary Branch for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes. 
Legislative-Ju-
diciiu-y Appropria-
tion Act, 1955. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary 
Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30,1955, namely: 
TITLE I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
SENATE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF SENATORS, MILEAGE OF THE PRESI-
DENT o r THE SENATE AND OF SENATORS, AND SALARY AND EXPENSE 
ALLOWANCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of Senators, $1,200,000. 
For expense allowance of Senators, $240,000. 
For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, $51,000. 
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For the compensation of the Vice President of the United States, 
$30,000. 
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, 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 multiples of $5 per month, $55,410. 
CHAPLAIN 
Chaplain of the Senate, $2,946. 
OFFICE o r THE SECRETARY 
For office of the Secretary, $444,020: Provided, That the basic com-
pensation of the Assistant Parliamentarian shall be increased from 
$5,940 to $7,000, so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For professional and clerical assistance to standing committees, 
and the Select Committee on Small Business, $1,767,045. 
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, $6,207,625. 
OFFICE OF SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER 
Ante, p. 83. 
For office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $1,276,875, includ-
ing seven additional pages at the basic annual rate of compensation of 
$1,800 each, as authorized by Public Law 357, Eighty-third Congress; 
one foreman of skilled laborers at $2,100 basic and four skilled 
laborers at $1,920 basic each in lieu of five skilled laborers at $1,920 
basic each; assistant postmaster at $4,560 basic in lieu of assistant 
postmaster at $4,140 basic; superintendent, service department, at 
$4,380 basic in lieu of foreman in folding room at $3,600 basic; 
assistant superintendent, service department, at $2,460 basic in lieu of 
clerk in folding room at $2,460 basic; clerk in service department at 
$1,980 basic in lieu of clerk in folding room at $1,980 basic; chief 
machine operator at $2,460 basic in lieu of chief folder at $2,460 basic; 
and thirteen machine operators at $1,740 basic each in lieu of thirteen 
folders at $1,740 basic each: Provided, That hereafter the Senate oe ^mlntf*'^^''* 
Folding Room shall be known as the Senate Service Department. 
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OFFICES OF THE SECRETARIES FOR THE MAJORITY AND THE MINORITY 
For the offices of the secretary for the majority and the secretary for 
the minority, $62,165. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
Legislative reorganization: For salaries and expenses, legislative 
reorganization, including the objects specified in Public Law 663, Sev-
2°tIc*60aV* 
enty-ninth Congress, $100,000. 
Senate policy committees: For salaries and expenses of the Majority 
Policy Committee and the Minority Policy Committee, $74,670 for 
each such committee; in all, $149,340. 
Joint Committee on the Economic Report: For salaries and expenses 
of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, $120,775, 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 
i5^usc^io2i ^ ^ ^ ^^'^' Seventy-ninth Congress. 
note. 
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: For salaries and expenses of 
the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, including the objects specified 
61 Stat. 16. 
in Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress, $188,060, and including com-
pensation 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 provisions of Public Law 
4°2^us J^f'soi 
^^^' Seventy-ninth Congress, 
note. 
Joint Committee on Printing: For salaries for the Joint Commit-
tee on Printing at rates to be fixed by the committee, $39,585; 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 Com-
mittee 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, $47,585. 
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. 
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, $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 fvirniture and repairs of same, and 
for the purchase of furniture, $19,000: Provided, That the furniture 
is not available from other agencies of the Government. 
Inquiries and investigations: For expenses of inquiries and investi-
gations ordered by the Senate or conducted pursuant to section 134 
60 Stat. 831. 
(a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, including compensa-
tions 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 
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including $400,000 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- 
ei stat. is. 
gress, $1,224,120: 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 
f^rec^'sas^note 
that higher rates may be established by the Committee on Rules and 
Administration in the case of travel beyond the limits of the con-
tinental United States. 
Folding documents: For the employment of personnel for folding 
speeches and pamphlets at a gross rate of not exceeding $1.50 per hour 
per person, $27,000. 
Materials for folding: For materials for folding, $1,500. 
Fuel and so forth: For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, ex-
clusive of labor, $2,000. 
Senate restaurants: For repairs, improvements, equipment, and sup-
plies 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, $55,000. 
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, 
$981,087. 
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 minoritv, 
$100; in all, $825. 
Airmail and special-delivery stamps: For airmail and special-
delivery stamps for Senators and the President of the Senate, as 
authorized by law, $19,400, and the maximum allowance per capita 
of $132.07 is increased to $200 for the fiscal year 1955 and thereafter. 
Stationery: For stationery for Senators and for the President of 
the Senate, including $10,000 for stationery for committees and officers 
of the Senate, $126,400. 
Communications: For an amount for communications which may be 
expended interchangeably for payment, in accordance with such limi-
tations 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 Appropriation 
Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 392; 2 U. S. C. 46c, 46d, 46e), the First Deficiencv 
Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U. S. C. 46d-l), Second Sup-
plemental Appropriation Act, 1952, Public Law 254, Eighty-second 
^s stat.' 760. 
Congress, and Public Law 178, Eighty-third Congress, $14,550. 
f^usc *46c!* 46d 
The Sergeant at Arms is authorized and directed to secure suitable and notes, 
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 designated by 
liim : Provided, That in the event suitable space is not available in such 
buildings and a Senator leases or rents office space elsewhere, the Ser-
geant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the con-
tingent fund of the Senate, vouchers covering bona fide statements of 
rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum for each 
Senator. 
The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate is authorized and directed to 
approve for payment from the contingent fund of the Senate to each 
Senator an amount not to exceed $150 quarterly, upon certification of 
each such Senator, for official office expenses incurred in his State. 
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Effective July 1, 1954, the paragraph relating to payment of toll 
charges on official long-distance telephone calls originating and ter-
minating outside of Washington, District of Columbia, under the 
60 Stat. 392. 
heading "Contingent Expenses of the Senate" in Public Law 479, Sev-
enty-ninth Congress, as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
"There shall oe paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, in ac-
cordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Committee on 
Rules and Administration of the Senate (1) the toll charges on strictly 
official long-distance telephone calls originating and terminating out-
side of Washington, District of Columbia, and (2) the toll charges on 
strictly official long-distance telephone calls to or from Washington, 
District of Columbia, in excess of those authorized to be paid under 
the preceding paragraph, not to exceed $1,200 per year, for each 
Senator." 
The Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms are authorized 
and directed to protect the funds of their respective offices by purchas-
ing 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 chairman of the Com-
mittee 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 REPRESENTATIVES 
SALARIES, MILEAGE, AND EXPENSES OF MEMBERS 
For compensation of Members (wherever used herein the term 
"Member" shall include 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, as authorized by 
law, $1,273,500: Provided^ That hereafter the fiscal year for the adjust-
ment of the accounts of the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Repre-
sentatives for compensation and mileage of Members shall extend from 
July 1 to June 30. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers and employees, as authorized by law, 
as follows: 
OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER 
For Office of the Speaker, $47,285. 
OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENTARIAN 
For the Office of the Parliamentarian, including $2,000 for prepar-
ing Digest of the Rules, $43,885. 
OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN 
For the Office of the Chaplain, $4,200. 
OFFICE OF THE CLERK 
For the Office of the Clerk, including $25,000 for additional admin-
istrative personnel, $17,000 for additional clerical assistants and read-
justment of salaries in the disbursing office, and $597 additional for 
increased longevity pay for telephone operators; $737,530. 
Fiscal year. 
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COMMITTEE EMPIiOTEES 
For committee employees, including not to exceed $330,000 for the 
Committee on Appropriations; $1,820,000. 
OFFICE OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS 
For Office of the Sergeant at Arms, $384,045. 
OFFICE OF THE DOORKEEPER 
For the Office of the Doorkeeper, $657,915. 
SPECIAL AND MINORITY EMPLOYEES 
For six minority employees, $54,685. 
For office of the majority floor leader, including $2,000 for official 
expenses of the majority leader, $45,985. 
For the office of the minority floor leader, $36,000. 
For the office of majority whip, $20,310. 
For the office of minority whip, $20,725. 
For two printing clerks, one for the majority caucus room and one 
for the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and 
minority leaders, respectively, $7,485. 
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 THE POSTMASTER 
For the Office of the Postmaster, including $1,710 additional for 
the employment of substitute messengers, and extra services of regular 
employees when required at the basic salary rate of not to exceed 
$1,940 per annum each, $189,880. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES 
For official reporters of debates, $124,435. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS TO COMMITTEES 
For official reporters to committees, including compensation for 
the employment of expert transcribers, $133,855. 
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE 
For salaries and expenses, studies and examinations of executive 
agencies, by the Committee on Appropriations, and temporary per-
sonal services for such committee, to be expended in accordance with 
section 202 (b) of the Legislative Keorganization Act, 1946, and to 
2°us*c*7li^* 
be available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, 
$450,000. 
M E M B E R S ' CLERK HIRE 
For clerk hire, necessarily employed by each Member in the dis-
charge of his official and representative duties, which shall be at the 
basic rate of $15,000 per annum; Provided, That no salary shall be 
fixed hereunder at a basic rate in excess of $6,000 per annum; 
$11,500,000. 
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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, $220,500. 
Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries 
unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including 
the sum of $12,500 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in 
accordance with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 
40 u*lc mfc^ 
(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, mainte-
nance, operation, and repair of the post-office motor vehicles for carry-
ing 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; $898,800. 
Reporting hearings: For stenographic reports of hearings of com-
mittees other than special and select committees, $125,000. 
Special and select committees: For salaries and expenses of special 
and select committees authorized by the House, $1,250,000. 
Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: For the payment 
of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal 
Revenue Taxation, $200,000. 
Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy: For sal-
aries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Immigration and 
Nationality Policy, $20,000. 
Office of the Coordinator of Information: For salaries and other 
expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of Information, $73,750. 
Telegraph and telephone: For telegraph and telephone service, 
exclusive of personal services, $800,000: Provided^ That effective July 
1,1954, the number of minutes of official long distance telephone calls 
allowed each Member shall not exceed 2,700 per annum. 
Stationery (revolving fund) : For a stationery allowance for each 
Member, (which hereafter shall be $1,200 per regular session) for the 
first session of the Eighty-fourth Congress, $525,600, to remain avail-
able 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, $320; Clerk, $640; Sergeant at Arms, 
S480; Doorkeeper, $400. After June 30, 1954, the amount allowed 
to Members for United States airmail and special-delivery postage 
stamps for each fiscal year shall be $200 each; to the Speaker, the 
majority and minority leaders, the majority and minority whips, $360 
each; and to each standing committee, $80. In all, $94,050. 
Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a gross 
rate not exceeding $2 per thousand or for the employment of person-
nel at a gross rate not exceeding $1.50 per hour per person, $125,000. 
Revision of laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as 
45 Stat. 1008. 
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 purchase, exchange, driving, mainte-
nance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $7,200. 
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Automobile for the majority leader: For purchase, exchange, driv-
ing, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the 
majority leader of the House, $5,835. 
Automobile for the minority leader: For purchase, exchange, driv-
ing, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the 
minority leader of the House, $5,835. 
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. 
The Sergeant at Arms is hereafter authorized and directed to se-
cure suitable office space in post offices or other Federal buildings in 
each district represented by a Member of the House of Representa-
tives 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 Representa-
tives, 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 the term "district" includes Alaska, 
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and, in the case of a Representative-at-large, 
a State. 
The Clerk of the House is authorized and directed to reimburse each 
Member from the contingent fund in an amount not to exceed $150 
quarterly, upon certification of the Member, for official office expenses 
incurred in his Congressional district. 
No part of any appropriation for the contingent 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 Member. 
The Clerk of the House is hereafter authorized to pay, from the 
contingent fund of the House, a gratuity to the widow, widower, or 
heirs-at-law, of each deceased employee of the House an amount equal 
to one month's salary for each year or part of year of the first six years' 
service of such employee plus one-half of one month's salary for each 
year or part of year of such service in excess of six years to and 
including the eighteenth year of such service. Service computed here-
under shall include all Federal civilian employment, and military 
service where such service interrupted Federal civilian employment. 
CAPITOL POLICE 
General expenses: For purchasing and supplying uniforms; the 
purchase, maintenance, and repair of police motor vehicles, including 
two-way police radio equipment; contingent expenses, including $25 
per month for extra services performed for the Capitol Police Board 
by such member of the staff of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate or 
the House, as may be designated by the chairman of the Board; 
$17,900. 
Capitol Police Board: To enable the Capitol Police Board to pro-
vide additional protection for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, 
including the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol 
Power Plant, $22,345. Such sum shall only be expended for payment 
for salaries and other expenses of personnel detailed from the Metro-
District office 
space. 
Funeral 
attend-
ance, restriction. 
Widow's g^ratu-
ity, etc. 
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55 Stat. 456. 
54 Stat. 629. 
Disbursement. 
26 u s e 
prec. 3600. 
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 
instructions 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: 
Providedy That any person detailed under the authority of this para-
graph or under similar authority in the Legislative Branch Appro-
priation 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, 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 pay the lieutenants detailed under the 
authority of this paragraph the same salary as that paid in fiscal year 
1954 plus such increases in basic compensation as may be subsequently 
provided by law so long as these positions are held by the present 
incumbents. 
The foregoing amounts under "Capitol Police" shall be disbursed 
by the Clerk of the House. 
OFFICE OF T H E LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL 
For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Office of the 
Legislative Counsel, as authorized by law, including increased and 
additional compensation as provided by law $259,000, of which 
$132,000 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and 
$127,000 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. 726), to 
remain available during the existence of the committee, $20,000, to be 
disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate. 
60 Stat. 839. 
2 u s e 88a. 
EDUCATION 
OF 
SENATE 
AND 
HOUSE PAGES 
For education of congressional pages and pages of the Supreme 
Court, pursuant to section 243 of the Legislative Reorganization Act, 
1946, $47,280, 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. 
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405 
PENALTY MAIL COSTS 
For expenses necessary under section 2 of Public Law 286, Eighty-
third Congress, $1,169,700, to be available immediately. 
67 sm. eu.^ 
STATEMENT OF APPKOPRIATIONS 
For the preparation, under the direction of the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the 
statements for the second session of the Eighty-third Congress, show-
ing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts 
authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular 
appropriation bills as required by law, $6,000, 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 
Architect, and, in case of the absence or disability of the Assistant 
Architect, the Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant shall 
so act; $138,000. 
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 
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 without 
regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; purchase 
4i use 5. 
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; $630,000. 
Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surround-
ing the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; Capitol Power 
Plant; personal and other services; care of trees; planting; fertilizers; 
repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; waterproof wearing 
apparel; maintenance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire 
of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with 
section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; $342,500. 
4i use 5. 
Legislative garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal 
and other services, and all other necessary expenses, $34,200. 
Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For 
maintenance, repairs, and rebuilding of the subway transportation 
system connecting the Senate Office Building with the Capitol, in-
cluding personal and other services, $3,500. 
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66 Stat. 4 73. 
63 Stat. 933. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
Restriction. 
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and 
supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment, and for 
labor and material incident thereto, and repairs thereof; for purchase 
of waterproof wearing apparel and for personal and other services; 
including five female attendants in charge of ladies' retiring rooms at 
$1,800 each, for -the care and operation of the Senate Office Building; 
to be expended under the control and supervision of the Architect of 
the Capitol; in all, $796,400. 
House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, 
waterproof wearing apparel, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary 
services, $984,200: Provided^ That $70,000 of the amount made avail-
able under this head for the fiscal year 1952, continued available by the 
Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1953, until June 30, 1953, is 
hereby continued availaWe until June 30,1955. 
Capitol Power Plant: For lighting, heating, and power (including 
the purchase of electrical energy), for the Capitol, Senate and House 
Office Buildings, Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library 
Buildings, and the grounds about the same. Botanic Garden, legislative 
garage, and for air-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from 
plants in any of such buildings; for heating the Government Printing 
Office 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 neces-
sary expenses in connection with the maintenance and operation of 
the plant, $1,237,000. 
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), $1,500,000, 
to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of 
the House Office BuUding 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 personal 
and other services, $400,000. 
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, 
S50,000. 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses incident to main-
taining, operating, repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden and 
the nurseries, buildings, grounds, collections, and equipment pertain-
ing thereto, including personal services (including not to exceed 
$3,000 for temporary laDor without regard to the Classification Act 
of 1949) ; waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 for emer-
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 refer-
ence, not to exceed $100; repairs and improvements to Director's 
residence; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the 
Library; $223,100: Provided, 
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 and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Library of 
Congress not otherwise provided for, including compensation of the 
Librarian Emeritus, as authorized by law; development and mainte-
nance of the Union Catalogs; custody, care, and maintenance of the 
Library buildings; special clothing; and expenses of the Library 
of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to the income 
of any trust fund held by the Board; $4,717,636. 
COPTKIGHT OFFICE 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Copyright 
Office, including publication of the decisions of the United States 
courts involving copyrights, $1,100,000. 
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICE 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to carry out the 
provisions of section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1946 (2 U. S. C. 166), $875,000: Provided, That no part of this appro- 
eo sut. 836. 
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priation may be used to pay any salary or expense in connection with note. 
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 Com-
mittee on Rules and Administration. 
DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the preparation 
and distribution of catalog cards and other publications of the 
Library, $1,332,000. 
INCREASE o r THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
General increase of the Library: For expenses (except personal 
services) necessary for acquisition of books, periodicals and news-
papers, and all other material for the increase of the Library, 
$260,000, to continue available during the next succeeding fiscal year. 
Increase of the law library: For expenses (except personal services) 
necessary for acquisition of books, legal periodicals, and all other 
material for the increase of the law library, $90,000, to continue avail-
able during the next succeeding fiscal year. 
Books for the Supreme Court: For the purchase of books and 
periodicals for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of 
Congress, and purchased by the Librarian of the Supreme Court, 
under the direction of the Chief Justice, $25,000. 
BOOKS FOR THE BLIND 
For salaries and other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 
of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the blind", approved 
March 3,1931 (2 U. S. C. 135a), as amended, $1,000,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress 
for salaries shall be available for expenses of investigating the loyalty 
of Library employees; special and temporary services (including 
46 Stat. 1487. 
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[68 
S T A T . 
60 Stat. 810. 
employees engaged by the day or hour or in piecework); and services 
as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 IT. S. C. 
55a). 
Not to exceed ten positions in the Library of Congress may be 
exempt from the provisions of appropriation Acts concerning the 
employment of aliens during the current fiscal year, but the Librarian 
shall not make any appointment to any such position until he has 
ascertained that he cannot secure for such appointments a person in 
any of the three categories specified in such provisions who possesses 
the special qualifications for the particular position and also other-
wise meets the general requirements for employment in the Library 
of Congress. 
Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress 
shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $10,000, when specifically 
authorized by the Librarian, for expenses of attendance at meetings 
concerned with the function or activity for which the appropriation 
is made. 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
28 Stat. 603. 
49 Stat. 502; 63 
Stat. 381; 56 Stat. 
1045. 
PRINTING AND BINDING 
For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; not to exceed 
$5,000 for printing and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; 
expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session index 
to the Congressional Record, as authorized by law (44 U. S. C. 182); 
printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register (including 
the Code of Federal Regulations), as authorized by law (44 IJ. S. C. 
309, 311, 311a); and printing and binding of Government publica-
tions authorized by law to be distributed without charge to the recipi-
ents; $8,500,000: Provided^ That this appropriation shall not oe 
available for printing and binding part 2 of the annual report of the 
Secretary of Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture). 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 use 1071 note. 
43 Stat. 658. 
OFFICE o r SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office ol 
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 provisions of the Act 
entitled "An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for eUi^ployees 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; $2,825,000: Provided^ 
That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries 
any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such 
libraries, and the requests therefor shall be subject to approval by the 
Superintendent of Documents. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Private vehicles. 
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 establish "
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by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or wh^i 
ever the rate of 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 designation 
of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided herein, shall 
be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided^ That the pro-
visions herein for the various items of official expenses of Members, 
Rate of compere 
sation, etc. 
46 Stat. 32. 
2 u s e 60a. 
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409 
Officers, and Committees of the House, and Clerk Hire for Members 
shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided 
further^ 
That the provisions relating to positions and salaries thereof carried 
in H. Res. 118,221,254, 355, 364, 392,401, 427,428,474, 486, and 554 of 
the Eighty-third 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 stand-
ards to be prescribed for such appointees by the Capitol Police Board: 
Provided^ That the Capitol Police Board is hereby authorized to detail 
police from the House Office, Senate Office, and Capitol Buildings for 
police duty on the Capitol Grounds. 
SEC. 105. After June 30, 1954, when any person who has been 
elected a Representative in Congress dies after the commencement of 
the Congress to which he has been elected, the Sergeant at Arms 
of the House of Representatives shall pay to the widow, or widower, 
of such person, or if there is no widow, or widower, to the next of 
kin or heirs-at-law of such person, any unpaid balance of salary or 
other sums due such person at the time of his death. 
SEC. 106. This title may be cited as the "Legislative Appropriation 
Act, 1955". 
TITLE II—THE JUDICIARY 
Capitol Police* 
Deceased Con« 
g r e s s m a n ' s sal-
ary. 
Citation of title. 
SUPREME COURT OF THE TjNrrED STATES 
SALARIES 
For the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, and all other 
oflScers and employees, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Court, 
except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and 
assigned by the Chief Justice to any office or work of the Court, 
$1,016,000. 
PRINTING AND BINDING SUPREME COURT REPORTS 
For printing and binding the advance opinions, preliminary prints, 
and bound reports of the Court, $91,200. 
PREPARATION OF RULES FOR CIVIL PROCEDURE 
For expenses of the Supreme Court incident to proposed amend-
ments or additions to the rules of civil procedure for the United States 
District Courts pursuant to title 28, United States Code, section 2072, 
to be expended as the Chief Justice in his discretion may approve, 
including personal services in the District of Columbia, printing and 
binding, and per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses for 
subsistence at rates to be fixed by him not to exceed $15 per day, 
$4,300, which, together with the unexpended balance of funds appro-
priated under this head in the Second Supplemental Appropriation 
Act, 1953, shall remain available until June 30,1955. 
62 Stat. 961; 63 
Stat. 104. 
67 Stat. 10. 
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES 
For miscellaneous expenses to be expended as the Chief Justice 
may approve, $52,650. 
CARE OF THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect 
of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon him by the Act 
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[68 STAT. 
48 Stat. 658. 
appFoved May T, 1934 (40 U. S. C. 13a-13d), including improvements, 
maintenance, repairs, equipment, supplies, materials, and appurte-
nances ; special clothing for workmen; and personal and other services 
(including temporary labor without reference to the Classification 
and Retirement Acts, as amended), and for snow removal by hire of 
men and equipment or under contract without compliance with sec-
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tions 3709, as amended, and 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 
5,16); $338,300. 
CouET or CUSTOMS AND PATENT APPEALS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries of the chief judge, four associate judges, and all other 
officers and employees of the court, and necessary expenses of the 
court, including exchange of books, and traveling expenses, as may be 
approved by the chief judge, $210,160. 
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S A L A R I E S A N D E X P E N S E S 
For salaries of the chief judge, eight judges, and all other officers 
and employees of the court, and necessary expenses of the court, 
including exchange of books, and traveling expenses, as may be 
approved by the chief judge, $495,630: Provided^ That traveling 
expenses of judges of the Customs Court shall be paid upon the written 
certificate of the judge. 
COURT OF CLAIMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries of the chief judge, four associate judges, seven regular 
and six additional commissioners, and all other officers and employees 
of the Court, and for other necessary expenses, including stenographic 
and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony, and 
travel, $618,000. 
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS 
For necessary repairs and improvements to the Court of Claims 
buildings, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of 
the Capitol, $8,000. 
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COURTS OF APPEALS, DISTRICT COURTS, AND OTHER JUDICIAL SERVICES 
SALARIES OF JUDGES 
For salaries of circuit judges; district judges (including judges 
of the district courts of Alaska, the Virgin Islands, the Panama Canal 
Zone, and Guam); justices and judges of the Supreme Court and 
circuit courts of the Territory of Hawaii; and justices and judges 
retired or resigned under title 28, United States Code, sections 371, 
62 Stat. 903. 
372, and 373; $5,472,500. 
SALARIES OF SUPPORTING PERSONNEL 
For salaries of all officials and employees of the Federal Judiciary, 
not otherwise specifically provided for, $12,850,000: Provided^ That 
the compensation of secretaries and law clerks of circuit and district 
judges shall be fixed by the Director of the Administrative Office 
5\rec*Io¥i*note. without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, except 
5 u s e 
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that the salary of a secretary shall conform with that of the General 
Schedule grades (GS) 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8, as the appointing judge shall 
determine, and the salary of a law clerk shall conform with that of 
the General Schedule grades (GS) 5, 7, 9, 11, or 12, as the appointing 
judge shall determine, subject to review by the judicial council of 
the circuit if requested by the Director, such determination by the 
judge otherwise to be final: Provided 
further^ That (exclusive of 
step-increases corresponding with those provided for by title VII 
of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and of compensation 
paid for temporary assistance needed because of an emergency) the 
aggregate salaries paid to secretaries and law clerks appointed by 
one judge shall not exceed $10,560 per annum, except in the case of 
the chief judge of each circuit and the chief judge of each district 
court having five or more district judges, in which case the aggregate 
salaries shall not exceed $14,355 per annum. 
FEES OF JURORS AND COMMISSIONERS 
For fees, expenses, and costs of jurors (including meals and lodging 
for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, title II, of the Act 
of June 6, 1900, 31 Stat. 362); compensation of jury commissioners; 
and fees of United States commissioners and other committing mag-
istrates acting under title 18, United States Code, section 3041; 
62Stat. sis. 
$3,950,000. 
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES 
For necessary travel and miscellaneous expenses, not otherwise pro-
vided for, incurred by the Judiciary, including the purchase of fire-
arms and ammunition, the cost of contract statistical services for the 
office of Register of Wills of the District of Columbia and not to exceed 
$1,000 for the payment of fees to attorneys appointed in accordance 
with the Act of June 8,1938 (52 Stat. 625), not exceeding $25 in any 3JJ; c- code 21-
one case, $1,800,000: Provided^ That this sum shall be available, in an 
amount not to exceed $8,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings 
concerned with the work of Federal Probation when incurred on the 
written authorization of the Director of the Administrative Office of 
the United States Courts. 
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS 
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office of the United 
States Courts, including travel, advertising, and rent in the District 
of Columbia and elsewhere, $595,000. 
SALARIES OF REFEREES 
For salaries of referees as authorized by the Act of June 28, 1946, 
as amended (11 U. S. C. 68), not to exceed $1,083,700, to be derived 
eo stat. 326. 
from the referees' salary fund established in pursuance of said Act. 
EXPENSES OF REFEREES 
For miscellaneous expenses of referees. United States courts, in-
cluding the salaries of their clerical assistants, travel, purchase of en-
velopes without regard to the Act of June 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 476), not 
^9 use 355. 
to exceed $1,443,550, to be derived from the referees' expense fund 
established in pursuance of the Act of June 28, 1946, as amended (11 
U. S. C. 68 (C) ( 4 ) ) . 
60 Stat. 327. 
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CitaUon of title. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 202. Sixty per centum of the expenditures for the District 
Court of the United States for the District of Columbia from all 
appropriations under this title and 30 per centum of the expenditures 
for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia 
from all appropriations under this title shall be reimbursed to the 
United States from any funds in the Treasury to the credit of the 
District of Columbia. 
SEC. 203. The reports of the United States Court of Appeals for the 
District of Columbia shall not be sold for a price exceeding that 
approved by the court and for not more than $6.50 per volume. 
SEC. 204. This title may be cited as the "Judiciary Appropriation 
Act, 1955". 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Strikes or over-
t h r o w of Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
AvaUability. 
Short title. 
SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a 
strike against the Government of the United States or who is a mem-
ber of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right 
to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow 
of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Pro-
vided^ That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered 
prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not con-
trary 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 advo-
cate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the 
overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or vio-
lence: Provided further^ That any person who engages in a strike 
against the Government of the United States or who is a member of 
an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to 
strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, 
or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow 
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 or fund contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony 
and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or impris-
oned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further^ That 
the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution 
for, any other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 302. The appropriations, authorizations, and authority with 
respect thereto in this Act or any regular annual appropriation Act 
for the fiscal year 1955 which has not been enacted into law prior to 
July 1, 1954, shall be available from and including such date for the 
purposes respectively provided in such appropriations, authoriza-
tions, and authority. 
All obligations incurred during the period 
between June 30, 1954, and the date of enactment of this Act or the 
applicable Act in anticipation of such appropriations, authorizations, 
and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with 
the respective terms thereof. 
SEC. 303. This Act may be cited as the "Legislative-Judiciary 
Appropriation Act, 1955". 
Approved July 2, 1954.