An Act making appropriations for the legislative branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960, and for other purposes
PL 86-176 (H.R.7453), enacted 08/21/1959

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Public Law 86-176 
August 21, 1959 
AN ACT 
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Making^ appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
June 30,1960, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Home of Representatives 
of the 
Branch Appropria! United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
tion Act, 1960. 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30,1960, namely: 
SENATE 
SALARIES OF SENATORS, MILEAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND 
OF SENATORS, EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY 
LEADERS OF THE SENATE, AND SALARY AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF 
THE V I C E 
PRESIDENT 
COMPENSATION OF SENATORS 
For compensation of Senators, $2,425,255. 
MILEAGE OF PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND OF SENATORS 
For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, $58,370. 
EXPENSE ALLOWANCE or 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 or THE UNITED STATES 
For the compensation of the Vice President of the United States, 
$37,695. 
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 
authorized, which shall be paid from this appropriation without 
regard to the below limitations, as follows: 
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
For clerical assistance to the Vice President, at rates of compensa-
tion to be fixed by him in basic multiples of $5 per month, $112,140. 
CHAPLAIN 
Chaplain of the Senate, $5,500. 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
For Office of the Secretary, $639,140; Provided, 
That effective 
July 1, 1959, two additional messengers may be employed at not 
to exceed $2,040 basic per annum each. 
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COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For professional and clerical assistance to standing committees, 
and the Select Committee on Small Business, $2,372,960. 
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Majority, at rates 
of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee 
$44,020. 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Minority, at rates of 
compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $44,020. 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL ASSISTANTS TO SENATORS 
For administrative and clerical assistants and messenger service for 
Senators, $11,052,450. 
O m C B OF SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEFER 
For office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $2,304,995: Pro-
vided^ That effective July 1, 1959, three additional lal3orers at $1,740 
basic per annum each, two additional inserting machine operators at 
$1,980 basic per annum each, and two additional offset press operators 
at $2,700 basic per annum each may be employed; and the basic per 
annum compensation and titles of the following positions shall be: 
administrative officer, $4,140 in lieu of $3,780; automatic typing tech-
nician at $3,480 in lieu of foreman, repairmen at $2,820; four offset 
press operators at $2,700 each in lieu of two offset press operators at 
$2,580 each and two offset press operators at $2,160 each; repairman 
$3,120, repairman $2,880, and two repairmen at $2,640 in lieu of two 
repairmen at $2,520 each, file clerk at $1,980, and warehouseman at 
$1,800. 
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, $112,185: Provided, That effective July 1, 1959, the 
basic per annum compensation of the assistant secretary for the 
majority and the assistant secretary for the minority may be fixed by 
the respective secretaries at not to exceed $7,560 each. 
OFFICES OF THE MAJORITY AND THE MINORITY WHIPS 
For two clerical assistants, one for the majority whip and one for 
the minority whip, at not to exceed $5,580 basic per annum each, 
$22,050. 
OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL OF THE SENATE 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of 
the Senate, $206,125. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION 
For salaries and expenses, legislative reorganization, $117,150. 
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SENATE POLICY COMMITTEES 
For salaries and expenses of the Majority Policy Committee and the 
Minority Policy Committee, $123,830 for each such committee; in all, 
$247,660. 
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic Committee, 
$166,960. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 
$260,146. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Printing, 
$104,716; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the 
Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $106,316. 
COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION 
For reimbursement to General Services Administration for space 
furnished the United States Senate, $10,000. 
VICE PRESIDENT'S AUTOMOBILE 
For the purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of 
an automobile for the Vice President, $8,160. 
AUTOMOBILE FOR THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE 
For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an 
automobile for the President pro tempore of the Senate, $7,660. 
AUTOMOBILES FOR MAJORITY AND MINORITY LEADERS 
For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of two 
automobiles, one for the majority leader of the Senate, and one for 
the minority leader of the Senate, $16,320. 
REPORTING SENATE PROCEEDINGS 
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable 
in equal monthly installments, $209,195. 
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 oi the Government. 
INQUIRIES AND INVESTIGATIONS 
For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate 
2°u?c*i9ob* 
°^ conducted pursuant to section 134(a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-
ninth Congress, including $380,000 for the Committee on Appropria-
tions, to be available also for the purposes mentioned m Senate 
Resolution Numbered 193, agreed to October 14,1943, $3,660,000. 
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FOLDING DOCUMENTS 
For the employment of persomiel for folding speeches and pam-
phlets at a gross rate of not exceeding $1.77 per hour per person, 
|31,900. 
SENATE RESTAURANTS 
For repairs, improvements, equipment and supplies for Senate kitch-
ens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Buildings, 
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, $1,856,210. 
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POSTAGE STAMPS 
For Offices of the Secretaries of the Majority and Minority, $140; 
for airmail and special-delivery stamps for Office of the Secretary, 
$160; Office of the Sergeant at Arms, $125; and for Senators and the 
President of the Senate, as authorized by law, $45,450; in all, $45,875. 
STATIONERY (REVOLVING FUND) 
For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, 
$181,800; and for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, 
$13,200; in all, $195,000, to remain available until expended. 
COMMUNICATIONS 
For an amount for communications which may be expended inter-
changeably for payment, in accordance with such limitations and 
restrictions as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and 
Administration, of charges on official telegrams and long-distance tele-
ghone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the President of the 
enate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those authorized by 
the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 
Stat. 392; 2 U.S.C. 46c, 46d, 46e), as amended, and the First Deficiency 
Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U.S.C. 46d-l), $15,150. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Effective July 1, 1959, the table contained in section 4(f) of the 
Federal Employees' Salary Increase Act of 1955 (Public Law 94, 
Eighty-fourth Congress, approved June 28,1955) is amended by strik- 
f^ufc^eof^note. 
ing out the last line therein and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
13,000,000 but less than 15,000,000 
28, 740 
15,000,000 but less than 17,000,000 
31, 740 
17,000,000 or more 
34, 740 
The third paragraph under the heading "Administrative Pro-
visions" in the appropriations for the Senate in the Legislative Branch 
Appropriation Act, 1959 (2 U.S.C. 43b), is amended by striking out 
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"from Washington, District of Columbia, to their resident cities in 
70 Stat. 360. 
72 Stat. 442. 
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their home States, and return, for not to exceed two such round trms" 
m, Dis-
exceed 
tneir nome otaues, ana return, lor not to exceea two sucn rouna trms 
and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "between Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia, and any point in their nome States, for not to exceed 
two round trips". 
HOUSE OF REPEESENTATIVES 
SALARIES, MILEAGE FOR THE MEMBERS, AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF 
THE SPEAKER 
COMPENSATION or MEMBERS 
For compensation of Members (wherever used herein the term 
"Member" shall include Members of the House of Kepresentatives, 
Delegates from Territories, and the Resident Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico), $10,638,000. 
MILEAGE OP 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: 
OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER 
For the Office of the Speaker, $58,510. 
OFFICE OP THE PARLIAMENTARIAN 
For the Office of the Parliamentarian, including $2,000 for prepar-
ing the Digest of the Rules, $60,265. 
OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN 
For the Office of the Chaplain, $8,195. 
OFFICE OF THE CLERK 
For the Office of the Clerk, including $105,545 for the House 
Recording Studio, $1,060,150. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For committee employees, including the Committee on Appropria-
tions, $2,750,000. 
OFFICE OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS 
For the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including $7,500 for addi-
tional clerical assistants, $571,720. 
OFFICE OF THE DOORKEEPER 
For the Office of the Doorkeeper, $961,725. 
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SPECIAL AND MINORITY EMPLOYEES 
For six minority employees, $78,030. 
For the office of the majority floor leader, including $2,000 for of-
ficial expenses of the majority leader, $64,340. 
For the office of the minority floor leader, $50,510. 
For the office of the majority whip, $27,645. 
For the office of the minority whip, $27,645. 
For two printing clerks, one for the majority caucus room and one 
for the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and 
minority leaders, respectively, $12,620. 
For a technical assistant in the office of the attending physician, to 
be appointed by the attending physician, subject to the approval of 
the Speaker, $8,570. 
For a clerical assistant for the House Delegation to the North 
Atlantic Treaty Parliamentarians' Conference, as authorized, $11,710. 
OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER 
For the Office of the Postmaster, including $8,500 for employment 
of substitute messengers, and extra services of regular employees when 
required at the basic salary rate of not to exceed $2,100 per annum 
each, $290,370. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES 
For official reporters of debates, $186,610. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS TO COMMITTEES 
For official reporters to committees, $190,145. 
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 Reorganization Act, 1946, and to be f^xMc^'ria^' 
available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, 
$500,000. 
OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel 
of the House, $204,600. 
MEMBERS' CLERK HIRE 
For clerk hire, necessarily employed by each Member in the dis-
charge of his official and representative duties, $16,300,000. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES or THE HOUSE 
rURNITURB 
For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including 
labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, and for the 
purchase oi packing boxes, $231,800. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically-
ordered by the House of Representatives, including the sum of 
$65,000 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance 
with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 (Public Law 
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^^^^' 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; mate-
rials for folding; and for stationery for the use of committees, depart-
ments, and officers of the House; $2,450,000. 
REPOBTUiTG HEARINGS 
For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than 
special and select committees, $150,000. 
SPECIAL AND SEILECT COMMITTEES 
For salaries and expenses of special and select committees authorized 
by the House, $2,450,000. 
JOINT COMMIITEE ON INTERNAL REVENUE TAXATION 
For the payment of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint 
Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, $295,000. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY POLICY 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Immigration 
and Nationality Policy, $20,000. 
OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of 
Information, $98,970. 
-raLEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE 
For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, 
$1,300,000. 
STATIONERY (REVOLVING FUND) 
For a stationery allowance for each Member, for the second session 
of the Eighty-sixth Congress, $525,600, to remain available until 
expended. 
ATTENDING P H Y S I C I A N ' S OFFICE 
For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses of the 
emergency room and for the attending physician- and his assistants, 
including an allowance of $1,500 to be paid to the attending physician 
in equal monthly installments as authorized by the Act approved 
June 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 629), and including an allowance of $75 per 
month each to five assistants as provided by the House resolutions 
adopted July 1, 1930, January 20, 1932, November 18, 1940, and May 
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POSTAGE STAMPS 
Postage stamp allowances for the second session of the Eighty-sixth 
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 eacn standing com-
mittee, as authorized by law; $183,640. 
FOLDING DOCUMENTS 
For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a gross rate not exceeding 
$2.36 per thousand or for the employment of personnel at a gross rate 
not exceeding $1.77 per hour per person, $220,000. 
REVISION OF LAWS 
For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by the Act 
approved May 29, 1928 (1 U.S.C. 59), $18,150, to be expended under 
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the direction of the Committee on the Judiciary. 
SPEAKER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and op-
eration of an automobile for the Speaker, $9,500, together with the 
unobligated balance of the appropriation under this head for the 
fiscal year 1959. 
MAJORITY LEADER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and op-
eration of an automobile for the majority leader of the House, $9,500. 
MINORITY LEADER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and op-
eration of an automobile for the minority leader of the House, $9,500. 
NEW 
EDITION OF THE UNITED STATES CODE 
For preparation of a new edition of the United States Code, $150,-
000, to remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
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. 
Effective July 1,1959, the position of "Administrative assistant to 
Clerk (retirement)" under the office of the Clerk of the House shall 
be transferred to the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and shall be re-
designated as "Special assistant (retirement)". 
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; $36,700. 
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CAPITOL POLICE BOARD 
To enable the Capitol Police Board to provide additional protection 
for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, including the Senate and 
House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, $106,435. Such 
sum shall be expended only for payment of salaries and other expenses 
of personnel detailed from the Metropolitan Police of the District 
of Columbia, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are 
authorized and directed to make such details upon the request of the 
Board. Personnel so detailed shall, during the period of such detail, 
serve under the direction and instructions of the Board and are author-
ized to exercise the same authority as members of such Metropolitan 
Police and members of the Capitol Police and to perform such other 
duties as may be assigned by the Board. Eeimbursement for salaries 
and other expenses of such detail personnel shall be made to the gov-
ernment of the District of Columbia, and any sums so reimbursed 
shall be credited to the appropriation or appropriations from which 
such salaries and expenses are payable and shall be available for all 
the purposes thereof: Provided^ That anjr person detailed under the 
authority of this paragraph or under similar authority in the Legis-
55 Stat. 456. 
lativc Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, and the Second Deficiency 
stit*. folV ^^^' ^° Appropriation Act, 1940, from the Metropolitan Police of the District 
note "^^^^^^ ^"^ ^^ 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 Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia are directed to pay the lieutenant 
detailed under the authority of this paragraph the same salary as that 
paid in fiscal year 1955 plus $625 and such increase in basic compen-
sation as may be subsequently provided by law so long as this position 
is held by the present incumbent and that the Commissioners of the 
District of Columbia are directed to pay the deputy chief detailed 
under the authority of this paragraph tne same salary as that paid 
in fiscal year 1959 plus $600 and such increases in basic compensation 
as may be subsequently provided by law so long as this position is 
held by the present incumbent. 
Disbursement. 
rpj^^ foregoing amounts under "Capitol Police" shall be disbursed 
by the Clerk of the House. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON EEDUCTION 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, $24,795, to be 
disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate. 
EDUCATION or SENATE AND HOUSE PAGES 
For education of congressional pages and pages of the Supreme 
Court, pursuant to section 243 of tn© Legislative Reorganization Act, 
2°u?c*88a.^' 
1^46? $62,500, 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 
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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, $2,691,000, to be available immediately. 
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS 
For the preparation, under the direction of the Committees on 
Appropriations of the SenUte and House of Kepresentatives, of the 
statements for the first session of the Eighty-sixth Congress, showing 
appropriations made, indefinite appropmations, and contracts author-
ized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropria-
tion bills as required by law, $8,000, to be. paid to the persons 
designated by the chairman of such committees to supervise the work. 
ARCHITECT OF T H E CAPITOL 
OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT or THE CAPITOL 
SALARIES 
For the Architect of the Capitol, Assistant Architect of the Capitol, 
and Second Assistant Architect of the Capitol, at salary rates of 
$19,000, $17,500, and $16,000 per annum, respectively, and other per-
sonal services at rates of pay provided by law; and the Assistant 
Architect of the Capitol shall act as Architect of the Capitol during 
the absence or disability of that official or whenever there is no Archi-
tect, and, in case of the absence or disability of the Assistant Archi-
tect, the Second Assistant Architect of the Capitol shall so act; 
$278,100. 
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 $7,500. 
Hereafter, the Architect of the Capitol is authorized, without 
regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, to fix the com- 
f uicf^io^uiote. 
pensation of three positions under the appropriation "Salaries, Office 
of the Architect of the Capitol", of one position under the appropria-
tion "Capitol Building", and of one position under the appropria-
tion "House Office Buildings" at a basic rate of $7,700 per annum 
each: Provided^ That this provision shall not be applicable to the 
positions of Architect, Assistant Architect, or Second Assistant Archi-
tect of the Capitol. 
Hereafter, the Architect of the Capitol is authorized, without regard 
to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, to fix the compensation 
of one position under the appropriation "Senate Office Buildings", 
at a basic rate of $7,020 per annum. 
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. 
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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 juris-
diction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, 
maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, fuel, oil, waste, 
and appurtenances; furnishings and office equipment; special and 
protective clothing for workmen; uniforms or allowances therefor as 
authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
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2131); personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of 
art, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as 
amended; purchase or exchange, maintenance and operation of a 
passenger motor vehicle; not to exceed $300 for the purchase of 
necessary reference books and periodicals; not to exceed $500 for 
expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Architect 
of the Capitol, at meetings or conventions in connection with subjects 
related to work under the Architect of the Capitol, $1,013,200. 
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 the Revised Statutes, as amended; $357,000. 
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68 Stat. 1114. 
SUBWAY TRANSPORTATION, CAPITOL AND SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS 
For maintenance, repairs, and rebuilding of the subway transporta-
tion system connecting the Senate Office Buildings with the Capitol, 
including personal and other services, $6,000. 
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; uniforms 
or allowances therefor as authorized by the Act of September 1,1954, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. 2131); to be expended under the control and 
supervision of the Architect of the Capitol; in all, $1,819,700. 
EXTENSION OF ADDITIONAL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING SITE 
For an additional amount to enable the Architect of the Capitol, 
under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission, to carry 
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193a notes. 
jj^g ^Q ^jjg acquisition of property in square 725 in the District of 
Columbia, including necessary incidental expenses, $200,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
REMODELING, SENATE OFFICE BUILDING 
Notwithstanding the provisions of the proviso contained under this 
heading in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1958 (71 Stat. 439), 
not to exceed $100,000 of the funds therein appropriated may be 
expended for the performance of work on a contract basis. 
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LEGISLATIVE GARAGE 
For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal and other services, 
and all other necessary expenses, $115,500. 
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGS 
For maintenance, including equipment, waterproof weariiig apparel, 
uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized by the Act of September 
1,1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2131), miscellaneous items, and for all 
necessary services, $1,451,300. 
68 Stat. 1114. 
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ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT, ADDmONAL 
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, 
and other changes and improvements, authorized by the Additional 
House Office Building Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 41,42), $16,500,000. 
CAPITOL POWER PLANT 
For lighting, heating, and power (including the purchase of electri-
cal energy) for the Capitol, Senate and House Onice Buildings, Su-
preme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the 
grounds about the same. Botanic Garden, legislative garage, and for 
air-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such 
buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office, Washington 
City Post Office, and Folger Shakespeare Library, reimbursement for 
which shall be made and covered into the Treasury; personal and other 
services, fuel, oil, materials, waterproof wearing apparel, and all other 
necessary expenses in connection with the maintenance and operation 
of the plant; $1,901,600. 
EXPANSION OF FACILITIES, CAPITOL POWER PLANT 
For expansion of the Capitol Power Plant facilities. $2,500,000, to 
be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the 
House Office Building Commission, in accordance with the provisions 
of the Act of Septemlfer 2,1958 (72 Stat. 1714-1716). 
LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL CARE 
For necessary expenditures for mechanical and structural mainte-
nance, including minor improvements, equipmentj supplies, water-
proof wearing apparel, and personal and other services, $1,080,500, of 
which not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for expenditure without 
regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended. 
4i use s. 
FURNITURB AND FURNISHINGS 
For furniture, partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work 
pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, office and library equipment, 
apparatus, and labor-saving devices, $140,000. 
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BOTANIC GARDEN 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For all necessary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, 
repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, 
buildings, grounds, collections, and equipment pertaining thereto, 
including personal services (including not to exceed $3,000 for tempo-
suscioyi^note. ^^^^ labor without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as 
amended); 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; all under the direction of the Joint Com-
mittee on the Library; $327,500. 
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; 
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; $7,159,890. 
COPYRIGHT OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, including publica-
tion of the decisions of the United States courts involving copyrights, 
$1,450,000. 
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. 
2°us°c 1
6
6
* and ^^^^' $1,455,4001 Pvovided^ That no part of this appropriation may be 
note. 
used to pay any salary or expense in connection with any publication, 
or preparation of material therefor (except the Digest of Public Gen-
eral Bills), to be issued by the Library of Congress unless such publi-
cation has obtained prior approval of either the Committee on House 
Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. 
DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the preparation and distribution of cata-
log cards and other publications of the Library, $1,981,300. 
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INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
GENERAL INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY 
For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquisition of 
books, periodicals, and newspapers, and all other material for the in-
crease of the Library, $350,000, to continue available during the next 
succeeding fiscal year. 
INCREASE OF THE LAW LIBRARY 
For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquisition 
of books, legal periodicals, and all other material for the increase of 
the law library, $90,000, to continue available during the next succeed-
ing fiscal year. 
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, $30,000. 
BOOKS FOR THE BLIND 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary salaries and expenses to carry out the provisions of 
the Act approved March 3, 1931 (2 U.S.C. 135a), as amended, sti^lao'•^'*"''^ 
$1,619,400. 
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), $106,800, to remain available until 
2 use 131 note. 
expended. 
PRESERVATION OF EARLY AMERICAN MOTION PICTURES 
For necessary expenses to enable the Librarian of Congress to pro-
vide for the conversion to safety base film of the George Kleine Col-
lection of nitrate film, and the paper prints of early American motion 
pictures now in the custody of the Library, $60,000. 
ADMINISITJATIVE 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 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 
55a). 
Not to exceed ten positions in the Library of Congress may be 
exempt from the provisions of appropriation Acts concerning the 
employment of aliens during the current fiscal year, but the Librarian 
shall not make any appointment to any such position until he has as-
certained 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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60 Stat. 810. 
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28 Stat. 603. 
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49 Stat. 502, w 
Stat. 388; 56 Stat 
1045. 
GOVEENMENT FEINTING OFFICE 
PRINTING AND BINDING 
For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; not to exceed 
$7,500 for printing and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; ex-
penses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session index to 
the Congressional Eecord, as authorized by law (44 XJ.S.C. 182); 
printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Eegister (includ-
ing the Code of Federal Ee^ulations) as authorized by law (44 U.S.C. 
309, 311, 311a); and printing and binding of Government publica-
tions authorized by law to be distributed without charge to the re-
cipients; $11,500,000: Provided^ That this appropriation shall not be 
available for printing and bindmg 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 SUPEEINTENDENT or DOCUMENTS 
43 Stat. 658. 
p r i v a t e v e h i -
cles. 
46 Stat. 32. 
2 u s e 60 a. 
Capitol Police. 
Short title. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Documents, 
including compensation of all employees m accordance with the Act 
entitled "An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and 
officers of the Government Printing Office", approved June 7, 1924 
(44 U.S.C. 40); travel expenses (^not to exceed $1,500); price lists and 
bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; and 
supplying books to depository libraries; $3,520,350. 
GENEEAL PEOVISIONS 
SEC. 102. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. 
SEC. 103. Whenever any office or position not specifically established 
by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or 
whenever the rate of compensation or designation of any position 
appropriated for herein is different from that specifically established 
for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the desig-
nation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided herein, 
shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided^ That the 
provisions herein for the various items of official expenses of Members, 
officers, and committees of the Senate and House, and clerk hire for 
Senators and Members shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: 
Provided further^ That the provisions relating to positions and salaries 
thereof carried in H. Ees. 428, 567, and 623 of the Eighty-fifth Con-
gress and H. Ees. 88, 89, 158, 197, 270, and 271 of the Eighty-sixth 
Congress shall be the permanent law with respect thereto. 
SEO. 104. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be paid as compensation to any person appointed after June 30,1935, 
as an officer or member of the Capitol Police who does not meet the 
standards to be prescribed for such appointees by the Capitol Police 
Board: Provided, That the Capitol Police Board is hereby authorized 
to detail police from the House Office, Senate Office, and Capitol 
Buildings for police duty on the Capitol Grounds. 
SEC. 105. This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch Appro-
priation Act, 1960". 
Approved August 21, 1959.