Joint resolution to amend the joint resolution of March 25, 1953, relating to electrical and mechanical office equipment for the use of Members, officers, and committees of the House of Representatives, to remove office's and committees from certain limitations, and for other purposes
PL 84-420 (H.J.Res.526), enacted 02/25/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 420-FEB. 25, 1956 
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Construction. 
Park and recrea-
tional facilities. 
Expenditures. 
67 Stat. 266. 
Appropri ation. 
SEC. 3. Construction of the Washita project herein authorized may 
be undertaken in such units or stages as in the opinion of the Secretary 
best serves the project requirements and the relative needs for water 
of the several prospective users. Repayment contracts negotiated in 
connection with each unit or stage of construction shall be subject 
to the terms and conditions of section 2 of this Act. 
SEC. 4. The Secretary may, upon conclusion of a suitable agreement 
with any qualified agency of the State of Oklahoma or a political sub-
division thereof for assumption of the administration, operation, and 
maintenance thereof at the earliest practicable date, construct or 
permit the construction of public park and recreational facilities on 
lands owned by the United States adjacent to the reservoirs of the 
Washita project, when such use is determined by the Secretary not 
to be contrary to the public interest, all under such rviles and regula-
tions as the Secretary may prescribe. No recreational use of any area 
to which this section applies shall be permitted w^hich is inconsistent 
with the laws of the State of Oklahoma for the protection of fish and 
game. 
The costs of constructing, operating, and maintaining the 
facilities authorized by this section shall not be charged to or become 
a part of the costs of the Washita River Basin project. 
SEC. 5. Expenditures for Foss and Fort Cobb Reservoirs may be 
made without regard to the soil survey and land classification require-
ments of the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1954 (43 
U. S. C. 390a). 
SEC. 6. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construc-
tion of the works authorized to be constructed by section 1 of this 
Act the sum of $40,600,000 plus such additional amount, if any, as 
may be required by reason of changes in the costs of construction of 
the types involved in the Washita River Basin project as shown by 
engineering indices. There are also authorized to be appropriated 
such sums as may be required for the operation and maintenance of 
said works. 
Approved February 25, 1956. 
February 25, 1956 
[H. J. Res. 526] 
Public Law 420 
CHAPTER 72 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To amend the joint resolution of March 25, 1953, relating to electrical and 
mechanical oflice equipment for the use of Members, officers, and committees 
of the House of Kepresentatives, to remove ofticei's and committees from certain 
limitations, and for other puri)oses. 
House of Repre-
sentatives. 
E l e c t r i c a l or 
mechanical 
office 
equipment. 
67 Stat. 7. 
Resolved 
hy the Senate 
and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) subsection 
(a) of the first section of the joint resolution entitled "Joint Resolu-
tion to authorize the Clerk of the House of Representatives to furnish 
certain electrical or mechanical office equipment for the use of 
Members, officers, and committees of the House of Representatives", 
approved March 25, 1953, as amended (2 U. S. C, sec. 112a (a)), is 
amended by striking out the last sentence thereof. 
(b) Subsection (b) of the first section of such joint resolution, as 
amended (2 U. S. C, sec. 112a (b)), is amended to read as follows: 
"(b) The value of equipment furnished under this section, together 
with the value of aiw equipment purchased under House Resolution 
318, Eighty-second Congress, which may be in use in the office of a 
Member at any one time shall not exceed $2,500. For the purposes 
of this subsection the value of any article of equipment shall be deemed 
to be the cost thereof less depreciation, determined in accordance with 
rules or regulations prescribed by the Committee on House Admin-
istration." 
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(c) Subsection (c) of the first section of sucli joint resolution, 
as amended (2 TJ. S. C, sec. 112a (c)), is amended by striking out 
•', officer, or committee". 
(d) Subsection (d) of the first section of sucii joint resolution, as 
amended (2 IT. S. C, sec. 112a (d)), is amended by striking out 
", officer, or committee". 
SEC. 2. Such joint resolution approved March 25, 1953, is further 
amended by renumbering sections 2, 3,4, and 5 as sections 4, 5,6, and 7, 
respectively, and by inserting immediately after the first section thereof 
the following new sections: 
"SEC. 2. In addition to the electric tyjjewriters which may be fur-
nished under the first section of this joint resolution, the Clerk of the 
House of Representatives, upon request of any Member, shall furnish 
for use in the office of such Member not to exceed two electric type-
writers. 
"SEC. 3. The cost of electrical or mechanical office equipment fur-
nished under this joint resolution shall be paid from the contingent 
fund of the House of Representatives." 
Approved February 25, 1956. 
69 Stat. 13. 
Additional ts^je-
Payment. 
Public Law 421 
CHAPTER 73 
AN ACT 
February 27, 1956 
To provide for a prorated stationery allowance in the case of a Member of the —[H. R. 8787]—^ 
House of RepresentatiA'es elected for a portion of a term. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That in the case of 
any Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner who is elected for a portion of a term, the amount of 
stationery allowance which such Member, Delegate, or Resident Com-
missioner shall be paid shall be an amount, with respect to the year in 
which he commences his service, which is the same percentage of the 
total stationery allowance payable for service for all of such year 
as the number of months of his service in such year (counting the 
month in which he is elected as one month) is of the total number 
of months in such year. 
Such prorated stationery allowance shall be 
paid from the contingent fund of the House into the revolving fund 
for stationery alloAvances established in the eighth paragraph under 
the heading "Contingent P^xpenses of tlie House" under the gen-
eral heading '"House of Representatives" in the Legislative Branch 
Appropriation Act, 1948. 
Approved February 27, 1956. 
House of Repre-
sentatives. 
Stationery allow-
ance> 
61 Stat. 366. 
Public Law 422 
CHAPTER 74 
AN ACT 
To increase the amount of telephone and telegraph service furnished to Members 
of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes. 
February 27, 1956 
[H. R. 8796] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenibled^ That clause (2) of 
the first section of the Act entitled "An Act relating to telephone and 
telegraph service and clerk hire for the House of Representatives", 
approved June 23, 1949, as amended (2 U. S. C , sec. 46f), is amended 
to read as follows: 
"(2) charges on strictly official telegrams, cablegrams, and 
radiograms sent by or on behalf of the Member." 
House of Repre-
sentatives. 
T e l e p h o n e and 
telegraph service. 
63 Stat, 264.