An Act making appropriations for the legislative branch and the judiciary branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes
PL 83-178 (H.R.5805), enacted 08/01/1953

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Public Law 178 
CHAPTER 304 
August 1, 1953 
^N ACT 
[H. R. 5805] 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary Branch 
for the fiscal year ending June 30,1954, and for other purposes. 
Legislative - J u-
diciary Appropria-
t e it enacted hy the Senate and Hause of Representatives 
of the 
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United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
tion Act. 1954. 
sums are appropriated, out of an^ money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary 
Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, namely: 
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1954. 
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TITLE I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
SENATE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF SENATORS, MILEAGE OF THE PRESI-
DENT OF 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. 
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 oflficers, 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 OF THE SECRETARY 
For office of the Secretary, $442,555, including one camera and 
sound engineer, Joint Recording Facility, at the basic rate of $4,080 
per annum, and one shipping clerk. Joint Recording Facility, at the 
basic rate of $1,500 per annum, as authorized by Public Law 11, Eighty-
Ante, p. 9. 
third Congress, and including an Assistant to the Minority at the basic 
rate of $8,000 per annum at the option of the Minority Policy 
Committee. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For professional and clerical assistance to standing committees, and 
the Select Committee on Small Business, $1,737,045. 
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. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL ASSISTANTS TO SENATORS 
For administrative and clerical assistants and messenger service for 
Senators, $6,207,625, including additional clerical assistants for each 
Senator from the States of Florida and New Jersey, as authorized by 
Public Law 11, Eighty-third Congress: Provided^ That beginning 
July 1, 1953, in addition to any other clerical assistance authorized by 
law, each Senator from any State which has a population of less than 
three million shall be entitled to one assistant clerk at not to exceed 
$2,700 basic per annum; each Senator from any State which has a 
population of three million or more but less than five million shall be 
entitled to two assistant clerks at not to exceed $2,700 basic per annum 
each; and each Senator from any State which has a population of 
five million or more shall be entitled to three assistant clerks at not 
to exceed $2,700 basic per annum each. 
Ante, p. 9. 
OFFICE OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER 
For office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $1,250,520, 
including one additional cabinetmaker at the basic annual rate of 
$2,460: Provided^ That the basic annual rate of compensation of the 
following position shall be: Procurement Officer, Auditor, and Dep-
uty Sergeant at Arms, $6,480, in lieu of a Deputy Sergeant at Arms and 
Storekeeper, $6,300. 
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, 
Seventy-ninth Congress, $100,000. 
Senate policy committees: For salaries and expenses of the Major-
ity Policy Committee and the Minority Policy Committee, $64,670 
for each such committee; in all, $129,340. 
Joint Committee on the Economic Report: For salaries and 
expenses of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, $133,275, 
including compensation for stenographic assistance at such rates and 
in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Com-
mittee on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions 
of Public Law 304, Seventy-ninth Congress. 
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: For salaries and expenses of 
the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, including the objects speci-
fied in Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress, $188,060, and including 
compensation for stenographic assistance at such rates and in accord-
ance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee on 
Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions of Public 
Law 585, Seventy-ninth Congress. 
Joint Committee on Printing: For salaries for the Joint Committee 
on Printing at rates to be fixed by the committee, $39,585; for expenses 
of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, 
$1,600; for compiling, preparing, and indexing material for the bio-
graphical directory, $1,900, said sum, or any part thereof, in the dis-
cretion of the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, may be paid as additional compensation to any employee 
of the United States; and for travel and subsistence expenses at rates 
provided by law for Senate committees, $4,500; in all, $47,585. 
60 Stat. 911. 
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60 Stat. 23. 
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61 Stat. 16. 
60 Stat. 755. 
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60 Stat. 831. 
61 Stat. 15. 
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Vice President's automobile: For purchase, exchange, driving, main-
tenance, 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, ex-
change, 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 fur-
niture, $3,190. 
Furniture: For materials for furniture 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 (a) 
of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, including compensation 
for stenographic assistance of committees 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 section 
134 (a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress; and including 
$400,000 for the Committee on Appropriations, to be available also for 
the purposes mentioned in Senate Resolution Numbered 193, agreed 
to October 14,1943, and Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress, $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 
5 uicf 835^note. 
o^ 1949) at rates in excess of $9 per day except that higher rates may 
be established by the Committee on Rules and Administration in the 
case of travel beyond the limits of the continental 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, exclu-
sive 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, $65,000. 
Motor vehicles: For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor 
vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the 
Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $9,560. 
Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, 
$869,537. 
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 minor-
ity, $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, $12,815. 
Stationery: For stationery for Senators and for the President of 
the Senate, including $10,000 for stationery for committees and officers 
of the Senate, $126,400: Promded^ That commencing with the fiscal 
j'^ear 1954 the allowance for stationery for each Senator and for the 
President of the Senate shall be at the rate of $1,200 per annum. 
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Communications: For an amount for communications which may 
be expended interchangeably for payment, in accordance with such 
limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed by the Committee on 
Rules and Administration, of charges on official telegrams and long 
distance telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the 
President of the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those 
authorized by the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tion Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 392; 2 U. S. C. 46c, 46d, 46e), the First Defi-
ciency Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U. S. C. 46d-l), and 
Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, Public Law 254, 
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Eighty-second Congress, $14,550. 
The Sergeant at Arms is authorized and directed to secure suitable 
office space in post office or other Federal buildings in the State of each 
Senator for the use of such Senator and in the city to be designated 
by him: Provided,, That in the event suitable space is not available in 
such buildings and a Senator leases or rents office space elsewhere, the 
Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the 
contingent fund of the Senate, vouchers covering bona fide statements 
of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum for each 
Senator. 
The Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms are author-
ized and directed to protect the funds of their respective offices by 
purchasing insurance in an amount necessary to protect said funds 
against loss. Premiums on such insurance shall be paid out of the 
contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers approved by the chair-
man of the Committee on Rules and Administration. 
Salaries or wages paid out of the foregoing items under "Contin-
gent expenses of the Senate" shall be computed at basic rates, plus 
increased and additional compensation, as authorized and provided 
by law. 
Effective July 1, 1953, Public LaAv 479, Seventy-ninth Congress, tePepho'ni cifi".*'^ 
under the heading "CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE", the last 
60 stat. 392. 
paragraph beginning on page 7 is amended by striking out the amount 
"$450" and inserting in lieu thereof "$650". 
Effective July 1, 1953, Public Law 479, Seventy-ninth Congress, as 
amended by the first paragraph of chapter I, Public Law 254, Eighty-
second Congress, hereby is further amended by striking out the word 
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"sixty" and inserting in lieu thereof "ninety", and by striking out the 
words "three hundred" and inserting in lieu thereof "four hundred 
and fifty". 
There is hereby created a committee consisting of six Senators, two 
s e n a t e em-
from the Committee on Appropriations, two from the Committee on 
committee to 
Post Office and Civil Service, and two from the Committee on Rules ^
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and Administration to be appointed by the respective chairmen of 
said committees. It shall be the duty of said committee to study the 
rates of compensation now being paid officers and employees of the 
Senate, including employees of the Senate Office Building under the 
Architect of the Capitol, but excluding administrative and clerical 
assistants to Senators and committee employees, to determine whether 
such rates of compensation bear the proper relationship to each other 
and whether they are in line with rates now paid by the other branch 
of Congress, and report to the Senate at the beginning of the second 
Report, 
session of the Eighty-third Congress, what adjustments, if any, should 
be made. 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SALARIES, MILEAGE, AND EXPENSES or MEMBERS 
For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, 
Delegates from Territories, and the Resident Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico, $5,492,500. 
For mileage and expense allowance of Members of the House of 
Representatives, Delegates from Territories, and the Resident Com-
missioner from Puerto Rico, as authorized by law, $1,273,500. The 
66 Stat. 467. 
proviso Under this head in Public Law 471, Eighty-second Congress, 
is amended to read as follows:'"''Provided^ That in the case of taxable 
years beginning after December 31, 1953, the place of residence of a 
Member of Congress (including any Delegate and Resident Commis-
sioner) within the State, congressional district, Territory, or posses-
sion which he represents in Congress shall be considered his home 
for the purposes of section 23 (a) (1) (A) of the Internal Revenue 
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Code, but amounts expended by such Member within each taxable year 
for living expenses shall not be deductible for income tax purposes in 
excess of $3,000." 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers and employees, as authorized by law, 
as follows: 
OFFICE OF T H E 
SPEAKER 
For Office of the Speaker, $47,285. 
THE S P E A K E R ' S TABLE 
For the Speaker's table, including $2,000 for preparing Digest of the 
Rules, $43,885. 
OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN 
For the Office of the Chaplain, $2,950. 
OFFICE OF THE CLERK 
For the Office of the Clerk, including the employment of an assistant 
property custodian at the basic rate of $2,800 per annum, as author-
ized by House Resolution 725, agreed to July 2, 1952; and an editor 
and laboratory supervisor, and a script-writer and general secretary, 
Joint Recording Facility, at the basic per annum salary rates of 
$4,020 and $2,500, respectively; and $745 additional for longevity 
increased pay for telephone operators; $684,265. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For committee employees, including a sum of not to exceed $330,000 
for the Committee on Appropriations, $1,796,720. 
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, including additional compensa-
tion to the two assistant floor managers of telephones (one for the 
minority), at the basic per annum salary rate of $500 each, so long 
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as the positions are held by the present incumbents, as authorized by 
House Kesohition 136, agreed to February 9, 1953, $652,260. 
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; and employment of a secretary to 
the majority leader at the basic salary of $6,000 per annum in lieu 
of an Assistant Legislative Clerk and a Clerk at the basic rates of 
$3,000 each per annum, as authorized by House Resolution 206, agreed 
to April 15,1953; $45,990. 
For the office of the minority floor leader, including employment of 
additional personnel at basic salary rates not to exceed a total of $7,620 
per annum; in lieu of a legislative clerk, clerk, and a messenger, at 
the basic per annum salary rates of $3,060, $3,000, and $1,560, respec-
tively as authorized by House Resolution 87, agreed to January 14, 
1953, $36,000. 
For the office of majority whip, including employment of an admin-
istrative assistant at a basic salary rate not to exceed $8,000 per annum 
as authorized by House Resolution 147, agreed to February 18, 1953; 
and a clerk at the basic per annum salary rate of $3,000, and a messen-
ger in the majority caucus room, at the basic per annum salary rate 
of $1,740, both as authorized by existing law; $20,310. 
For the office of minority whip, including employment of an admin-
istrative assistant at a basic salary rate not to exceed $8,000 per annum, 
as authorized by House Resolution 147, agreed to February 18, 1953; 
and employment of additional personnel at basic per annum salary 
rates not exceeding a total of $4,740, as authorized by House Resolu-
tion 78, agreed to January 14,1953; $20,310. 
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 Office of the Postmaster, $177,230. 
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 two official reporters at the basic rate of $7,500 per 
annum each as authorized by House Resolution 732 and House Reso-
lution 739 agreed to July 3 and July 4,1952, $125,415. 
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 
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be available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, 
$450,000. 
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CLERK HIRE, MEMBERS AND DELEGATES 
For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member and Delegate, 
and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, in the discharge of 
his official and representative duties, as authorized by law, $9,653,565. 
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 $47,500 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in 
accordance with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 
40 us^c'mk.* 
(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; $745,000. 
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, $192,000. 
Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy: For sala-
ries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Immigration and Nation-
ality 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, $700,000. 
Stationery (revolving fund) : For a stationery allowance of $800 
for each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner 
from Puerto Rico, for the second session of the Eighty-third Congress, 
$350,400, to remain available until expended. 
Attending physician's office: For medical supplies, equipment, and 
contingent expenses of the emergency room and for the attending 
physician and his assistants, including an allowance of $1,500 to be 
paid to the attending physician in equal monthly installments as 
authorized by the Act approved June 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 629), and 
including an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month each to four 
assistants as provided by the House resolutions adopted July 1, 1930, 
January 20,1932, and November 18,1940, $8,985. 
Postage stamps: Postmaster, $200; Clerk, $400; Sergeant at Arms, 
$300; Doorkeeper, $250; United States airmail and special-delivery 
postage stamps for each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident 
Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and the Speaker, the majority and 
minority leaders, the majority and minority whips, and each standing 
committee of the House, $57,975. 
Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a gross 
rate not exceeding $2 per thousand or for the employment of personnel 
at a gross rate not exceeding $1.50 per hour per person, as authorized 
by House Resolution 149, agreed to February 24, 1953, $110,000. 
Revision of laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as 
45 Stat. 1008. 
authorlzed by the Act approved May 29, 1928 (1 U. S. C. 59), $13,700, 
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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, $11,000, 
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 be computed at basic rates, plus increased and 
additional compensation, as authorized and provided by law. 
The Sergeant at Arms is authorized and directed to secure suitable 
office space in post offices or other Federal buildings in each district 
represented by a Member of the House of Representatives for the use 
of such Member and at a place in such district which such Member may 
designate: Provided, That in the event suitable office space is not 
available in such buildings and a Member leases or rents office space 
elsewhere, the Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, 
from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, vouchers 
covering bona fide statements of rentals due in an amount not exceeding 
$900 per annum for each such Member. For the purposes of this para-
graph (1) the terms "Member of the House of Representatives" and 
''Member" include the Delegate from Alaska, the Delegate from 
Hawaii, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and (2) 
the term "district" includes Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and, in the 
case of a Representative-at-large, a State. 
No part of the appropriation contained in this Act for the 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 person who at the time of his or her 
death is a Representative, a Delegate from a Territory, or a Resident 
Commissioner from Puerto Rico. 
Office space. 
" M e m b e r " ; 
'district". 
Funeral attend-
ance, restriction. 
CAPITOL POLICE 
General expenses: For purchasing and supplying uniforms; the 
purchase, maintenance, and repair of passenger motor vehicles; con-
tingent 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. and in addition $1,500 of the 
unobligated balance under this head in the Legislative Appropriation 
Act, 1953, shall continue available through June 30, 1954, and be 
merged with this appropriation. 
Capitol Police Board: To enable the Capitol Police Board to pro-
vide additional protection for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, in-
cluding the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power 
Plant, $19,110. Such sum shall only be expended for payment for 
salaries and other expenses of personnel detailed from the Metropoli-
tan 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 
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such Metropolitan Police and members of the Capitol Police and to 
perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Board. Reim-
bursement 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 appro-
priations from which such salaries and expenses are payable and be 
available for all the purposes thereof: Provided^ That any person 
detailed under the authority of this paragraph or under similar 
55 Stat. 456. 
authority in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, and the 
54 Stat. 629. 
Sccoud Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, from the Metropolitan 
Police of the District of Columbia shall be deemed a member of such 
Metropolitan Police during the period or periods of any such detail 
for all purposes of rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits to 
the same extent as though such detail had not been made, and at the 
termination thereof any such person who was a member of such police 
on July 1, 1940, shall have a status with respect to rank, pay, allow-
ances, privileges, and benefits which is not less than the status of such 
person in such police at the end of such detail: 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 1953 plus such increases in basic com-
pensation as may be subsequently provided by law so long as these 
positions are held by the present encumbents. 
The foregoing amounts under "Capitol Police" shall be disbursed 
by the Clerk of the House. 
Disbursement. 
OFFICE OF T H E LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL 
For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Office of the Legis-
lative Counsel, as authorized by law, including increased and ad-
ditional compensation as provided by law, $239,000, of which $125,000 
shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $114,000 by the 
Clerk of the House of Representatives. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON REDUCTION OF NONESSENTIAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES 
For an amount to enable the Joint Committee on Reduction of Non-
essential Federal Expenditures to carry out the duties imposed upon 
prec^. 360o: "°*^ it by sectiou 601 of the Revenue Act of 1941 (55 Stat. 726), to remain 
available during the existence of the committee, $20,000, to be dis-
bursed by the Secretary of the Senate. 
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, 
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^^^^'. $43,900, which amount shall be advanced and credited to the 
applicable appropriation of the District of Columbia, and the Board of 
Education of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to 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, 
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS 
For the preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the state-
ments for the first session of the Eighty-third Congress, showing 
Travel expenses. 
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appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts author-
ized, 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 ARCHII'ECT OF THE CAPITOL 
Salaries: For the Architect of the Capitol, Assistant Architect of 
the Capitol, Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant, and other 
personal services at rates of pay provided by law; and the Assistant 
Architect of the Capitol shall act as Architect of the Capitol during 
the absence or disability of that official or whenever there is no Archi-
tect, and, in case of the absence or disability of the Assistant Architect, 
the Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant shall so act; 
$144,000. 
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 
Caj)itol 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, in-
cluding 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 
^^ "^^ 5. 
or exchange, maintenance and oj^eration 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 spe-
cifically authorized by the Architect of the Capitol, at meetings or 
conventions in connection with subjects related to work under the 
Architect of the Capitol; $745,600. 
Terraces of Capitol Building: For reconstruction, repair, altera-
tion, and improvement of the terraces of the Capitol Building, includ-
ing expenditures for personal and other services and all other neces-
sary items, $837,000. 
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; $250,000. 
4i use s. 
Legislative gurage: 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 sys-
tem connecting the Senate Office Building with the Capitol, including 
personal and other services, $3,500. 
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 
62 Stat. 1028. 
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$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, $779,600. 
PRELIMINARY PLANS AND ESTIMATES, ADDITIONAL SENATE OFFICE 
BUILDING 
Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropria-
tion of $850,000 provided in the Second Deficiency Appropriation 
Act, 1948, for construction and equipment of an additional office build-
ing for the United States Senate, is hereby made available for ex-
penditure for the preparation of additional preliminary plans and 
estimates of cost for an additional office building for the use of the 
United States Senate, designed primarily to provide additional office 
accommodations, such expenditure to be made by the Architect of the 
Capitol under the direction and supervision of the Senate Office Build-
ing Commission created by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of 
April 28, 1904 (33 Stat. 481), as amended by the Act of July 11, 1947 
no1e°. ^^^ i74b-i (^Q^ g^at. 307), the membership of which is hereby increased from five 
to seven members, such additional members to be appointed by the 
President of the Senate. 
House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, 
waterproof wearing apparel, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary 
services, $972,000. 
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, $1,330,600. 
Changes and improvements, Capitol Power Plant: Toward carrying 
out the changes and improvements authorized by the Act of October 
63 Stat. 933. 
26, 1949 (Public Law 413, Eighty-first Congress), $1,000,000, to be 
expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the 
House Office Building Commission. 
Senate restaurants: For repairs, improvements, furnishings, equip-
ment, labor and materials, and all necessary incidental expenses, to 
provide additional accommodations for the Senate restaurants, Senate 
Office Building, $4,250, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol 
under the supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules and Adminis-
41 use 5. 
tration, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as 
amended. 
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, $450,000. 
Furniture and furnishings: For furniture, partitions, screens, shelv-
ing, and electrical work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, office 
and library equipment, apparatus, and labor-saving devices, $50,000. 
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329 
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 labor without regard to the Classification Act of 1949) ; 
waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 for emergency 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 oi 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; 
jjurchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not 
to exceed $100; repairs and improvements to Director's residence; all 
under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library; $221,000: 
Provided^ That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the 
distribution, by congressional allotment, of trees, plants, shrubs, or 
other nursery stock. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
Nursery stock. 
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; $4,810,272. 
COPYRIGHT 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), $901,721: Promded, That no part of this appro-
priation may be used to pay any salary or expense in connection with 
any publication, or preparation of material therefor (except the 
Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued by the Library of Con-
gress unless such publication has obtained prior approval of either 
the Committee on House Administration or the Senate Committee on 
Rules and Administration. 
60 Stat. 
2 u s e 
note. 
836. 
16 6 and 
DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the preparation 
and distribution of catalog cards and other publications of the 
Library, $1,264,800. 
INCREASE OF T H E 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, $270,000, 
to continue available during the next succeeding fiscal year. 
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[67 STAT. 
Increase of the law library: For expenses (except personal serv-
ices) necessary 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 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, $22,500. 
BOOKS FOR THE BLIND 
For salaries and other expenses necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the blind", 
46 Stat. 1487. 
approvcd 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 em-
ployees engaged by the day or hour or in piecework) ; and services 
60 Stat. 810. 
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 
ascertained that he cannot secure for such appointments a person 
in any of the three categories specified in such provisions who pos-
sesses the special qualifications for the particular position and also 
otherwise 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 
PRINTING AND BI.VDING 
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. 
28 Stat. 603. 
^82) ; printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register 
(including the Code of Federal Regulations), as authorized by law 
sttf.^aiV; le^ita" (44 U. S. C. 309, 311, 311a); and printing and binding of Government 
1045. 
' 
* publications authorized by law to be distributed without charge to the 
recipients; $10,100,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not 
be available for printing and binding part 2 of the annual report of 
the Secretary of Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture). 
REVOLVING FUND 
For establishment of a revolving fund, effective July 1, 1953, to 
be available without fiscal year limitation, for expenses necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of tlie Government Printing Office 
(except the Office of Superintendent of Documents), including rental 
of buildings; expenses of attendance at meetings, when authorized 
by the Joint Committee on Printing; maintenance and operation of 
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331 
the emergency room; purchase of uniforms for guards; boots, coats, 
and gloves; repairs and minor alterations to buildings; and expenses 
authorized in writing by the Joint Committee on Printing for inspec-
tion of Government printing activities; $1,000,000; and in addition, 
the Public Printer shall provide capital for said fund by capitalizing, 
at fair and reasonable values as jointly determined by him and the 
Comptroller General, the present inventories, plant (except buildings 
and land), equipment, and other assets of the Goveri:iment Printing 
Office: Provided, 
That the unexpended balances (including the anYelf^*'"*^'*''^^' 
amounts otherwise required to be returned to the Treasury) and the 
obligations and outstanding commitments of existing appropriations 
for "Working capital and congressional printing and binding" shall 
be transferred to this fund. The fund shall be (1) reimbursed for the 
cost of all services and supplies furnished (including those furnished 
other appropriations of the Government Printing Office) at rates 
which shall include charges for overhead and related expenses, depre-
ciation of plant (except buildings and land) and equipment, and 
accrued leave; (2) credited with all receipts including sales of Gov-
ernment publications, waste, condemned, and surplus property and 
with payments received for losses or damage to property; and (3) 
charged with payment into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury 
of such part of the receipts from the sales of Government publica-
tions as is required by law (44 U. S. C. 71, 72a, 309). 
^ 
_ 
staf. twi 49%at! 
An adequate system of accounts for the fund shall be maintained 502.* 
on the accrual method and financial reports prepared on the basis 
of such accounts. The Public Printer shall prepare and submit an 
annual business type budget program for the operations under this 
fund. 
The activities of the Government Printing Office shall be 
audited by the General Accounting Office and an audit report fur-
nished annually to the Congress and the Public Printer. For the 
purposes hereof the Comptroller General shall have such access to 
the records, files, personnel, and facilities of the Government Print-
ing Office as he may deem necessary. 
Hereafter any executive department or independent establishment 
of the Government ordering printing and binding or blank paper 
and supplies from the Government Printing Office shall pay promptly 
by check to the Public Printer upon his written request, either in 
advance or upon completion of the work, all or part of the estimated 
or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the 
Public Printer in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or 
certification in advance of payment: Provided, That proper adjust-
ments on the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in 
advance shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed 
upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishment con-
cerned. 
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of 
Superintendent of Documents, including personal services in accord-
ance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and compensa- 
5^usc*io¥i*note. 
tion of employees who shall be subject to the provision of the Act 
entitled "An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and 
officers of the Government Printing Office", approved June 7, 1924 
(44 U. S. C. 40) ; traveling expenses (not to exceed $1,500) ; price lists 
43 stat. ess. 
and bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; 
and supplying books to depository libraries; $2,800,000: 
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. 
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[67 S T A T 
28 Stat. 601. 
44 u s e l e t seq. 
63 Stat. 377. 
40 u s e 4 71 note. 
Reports. 
Private vehicles. 
Rate of compen-
sation, etc. 
46 Stat. 32. 
2 u s e 60a. 
eapitol Police. 
eitation of title. 
Tudiciary Appro-
priation Act, 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. Purchases may hereafter be made from the foregoing ap-
propriations under the "Government Printing Office", as provided 
for in the Printing Act approved January 12, 1895, and without 
reference to the Act approved June 30, 1949 (Public Law 152), as 
amended, concerning purchases for the Federal Government. 
SEC. 103. In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding 
within or under the appropriations therefor, the heads of the various 
executive departments and independent establishments are hereafter 
authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports 
under their respective jurisdictions: Provided, That where the print-
ing of such reports is discontinued the original copy thereof shall 
be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments 
or independent establishments for public inspection. 
SEC. 104. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be 
used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. 
SEC. 105. Whenever any office or position not specifically established 
by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or when-
ever the rate of compensation or designation of any position appro-
priated for herein is different from that specifically established for 
such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the designa-
tion of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided herein, 
shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided, That the 
provisions relating to positions and salaries thereof carried in H. Res. 
725, 732, and 739 of the Eighty-second Congress, and H. Res. 78, 87, 
136, 147, 149, and 206 of the Eighty-third Congress shall be the per-
manent law with respect thereto. 
SEC. 106. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be paid as compensation to any person appointed after June 30, 1935, 
as an officer or member of the Capitol Police who does not meet the 
standards to be prescribed for such appointees by the Capitol Police 
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. 107. This Title may be cited as the "Legislative Appropriation 
Act, 1954." 
T I T L E II—THE JUDICIARY 
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 
SALARIES 
For the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, and all other 
officers 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, 
$1,021,800. 
PRINTING AND BINDING SUPREME COURT REPORTS 
For printing and binding the advance opinions, preliminary 
prints, and bound reports of the Court, $91,200. 
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES 
For miscellaneous expenses to be expended as the Chief Justice may 
approve, $48,950. 
67 STAT.] 
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333 
CARE OF T H E 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 
approved May 7,1934 (40 U. S. C. 13a-13d), including improvements, 
48 stat. ees. 
maintenance, repairs, equipment, supplies, materials, and appurte-
nances : special clothing for workmen; and personal and other serv-
ices (including temporary labor without reference to the Classifica-
tion and Ketirement Acts, as amended), and for snow removal by hire 
of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with 
sections 3709, as amended, and 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 
U. S. C. 5,16); $174,100. 
COURT OF 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, $204,500. 
CUSTOMS COURT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
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, $488,000: Provided^ That traveling 
expenses of judges of the Customs Court shall be paid upon the writ-
ten 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, $15,600. 
COURTS OF APPEALS, DISTRICT COURTS, AND OTHER JUDICIAL SERVICES 
SALARIES O F 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, 
372, and 373; $5,240,000. 
62 stat. 903. 
27000 O - 53 - 24 
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A T , 
SALARIES OF SUPPORTING PERSONNEL 
For salaries of all officials and employees of the Federal Judiciary, 
not otherwise specifically provided for, $12,369,970: Provided, That 
the compensation of secretaries and law clerks of circuit and district 
judges shall be fixed by the Director of the Administrative Office with-
5 uicf io7i'*note. ^^^ regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, except 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 cor-
responding with those provided for by title VII of the Classification 
5USC H21-1124. ^Q^ Qf 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 magis-
62 Stat. 815. 
tratcs actiug under title 18, United States Code, section 3041; 
$3,675,000. 
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 accord-
ance with the Act of June 8,1938 (52 Stat. 625), not exceeding $25 in 
any one case, $1,644,400: Provided^ That this sum shall be available, 
in an amount not to exceed $8,500 for expenses of attendance at meet-
ings 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: Promded further^ That none of the funds 
contained in this paragraph may be paid to any circuit judge as reim-
bursement for maintenance expenses incurred at or near the place 
where a district court is regularly held and at or near which the judge 
performs a substantial portion of his judicial work, which is nearest 
the place where he maintains an actual abode in which he customarily 
lives. 
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF T H E UNITED STATES COURTS 
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office of the United 
States Courts, including travel, advertising, rent in the District of 
Columbia and elsewhere, and examination of estimates of appropria-
tions in the field, $588,000. 
SALARIES OF REFEREES 
D. C. C o d e 21-
308. 
60 Stat. 326. 
For salaries of referees as authorized by the Act of June 28, 1946, 
as amended (11 U. S. C. 68), $1,058,750, to be derived from the ref-
erees' salary fund established in pursuance of said Act. 
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335 
EXPENSES OF REFEREES 
For miscellaneous expenses of referees, United States courts, includ-
ing the salaries of their clerical assistants, travel, purchase of enve-
lopes without regard to the Act of June 28,1906 (34 Stat. 476), $1,236,-
150, to be derived from the referees' expense fund established in pur-
suance of the Act of June 28, 1946, as amended (11 U. S. C. 68 (c) 
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 centvmi 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, 1954". 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
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 member 
of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to 
strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, 
or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of 
the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided^ 
That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima 
facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary 
to the provisions of this section, engaged in a strike against the Gov-
ernment 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 over-
throw of the Government of the United States by force or violence: 
Provided further^ That any person who engages in a strike against 
the Government of the United States or who is a member of an 
organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike 
against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or 
who is a member of an organization that 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 appro-
priation or fund contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, 
upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned 
for not more than one year, or both: Provided further^ That the above 
penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any 
other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 302. This Act may be cited as the "Legislative-Judiciary 
Appropriation Act, 1954". 
Approved August 1, 1953. 
39 u s e 355. 
60 Stat. 327. 
Citation of title-
Strikes or ovei-
t h r o w of Goverri-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Short title.