An Act to provide certain equipment for use in the offices of Members, officers, and committees of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes
PL 91-139 (H.R.13949), enacted 12/05/1969

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PUBLIC LAW 91-139-DEC. 5, 1969 
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(c) Section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act further supplemental 
to the various Acts prescribing the mode of obtaining evidence in cases 
of contested elections", approved March 2,1875 (2 U.S.C. 203). 
EFFECTIVE 
DATE 
SEC. 19. The provisions of, and the repeals made by, this Act shall 
apply with respect to any general or special election for Representa-
tive in, or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress of the United 
States occurring after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved December 5, 1969. 
Public Law 91-139 
A N A C T 
December 5, 1969 
To x>i'ovide certain equipment for use in the offices of Members, officers, and 
[H.R. 13949] 
committees of the House of Representatives, and for other purjwses. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) at the 
House o
f Repre-
request of any Member, officer, or committee of the House of Repre- ^^office^e^quip-
sentatives, or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and with ^ent for Members. 
the approval of the Committee on House Administration, but subject 
to the limitations prescribed by this Act, the Clerk of the House shall 
furnish electrical and mechanical office equipment for use in the office 
of that Member, Resident Comissioner, officer, or committee. Office 
equipment so furnished is limited to equipment of those types and 
categories which the Committee on House Administration shall 
prescribe. 
(b) Office equipment furnished under this section shall be registered 
in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and shall 
remain the property of the House of Representatives. 
(c) The cost of office equipment furnished under this section shall be 
paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, 
(d) The Committee on House Administration shall prescribe such 
regulations as it considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this 
section. The regulations shall limit, on such basis as the committee con-
siders appropriate, the total value of office equipment, with allowance 
for equipment depreciation, which may be in use at any one time in 
the office of a Member or the Resident Commissioner. 
SEC. 2. (a) The joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to author- 
Repeal. 
ize the Clerk of the House of Representatives to furnish certain elec-
trical or mechanical office equipment for the use of Members, officers, 
and committees of the House of Representatives", approved March 25, 
1953 (2 r.S.C. 112a-112d, inclusive), is repealed. 
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(b) The repeal by subsection (a) of this section of the joint resolu- 
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tion of March 25, 1953, does not deprive any Member, officer, or com- equipment. 
mittee of the House of Representatives, or the Resident Commissioner 
from Puerto Rico, of entitlement to the continued possession and use 
of office equipment furnished, under any provision of that joint reso-
lution, to that Member, officer, committee, or the Resident Commis-
sioner from Puerto Rico, and in use on the effective date of this Act. 
However, the total value (less allowance for depreciation) of that 
equipment furnished to a Member or the Resident Commissioner under 
the first section and section 2 of the joint resolution of March 25,1953, 
while in use by that Member or the Resident Commissioner on and 
after the effective date of this Act shall be taken into account for the 
Determination. 
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Effective date. 
purpose of determining the total value of ec[uipment in use at any one 
time in the office of the Member or the Resident Commissioner under 
the regulations prescribed by the Committee on House Administration 
under the first section of this Act. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall become effective at the beginning of the first 
calendar month which commences on or after the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
Approved December 5, 1969. 
Public Law 91-140 
Decembers, 1969 
AN 
A C T 
[S.2056] 
rJ^^J amend title 11 of the District of Columbia Code to permit unmarried judges 
of the courts of the District of Columbia who liave no dependent children to 
terminate their payments for survivors annuity and to receive a refund of 
amounts paid for such annuity. 
provisions 
78 Stat. 1055. 
Be it enacted T)y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
"^•'^- . 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That paragraph (4) 
judgrs^"^^ 
of subsection (b) of section 11-1701 of title 11 of the District of 
Survivor annuity Columbia Code IS amended by adding at the end thereof the follow-
ing: "Any judge who elected to bring himself within the purview 
of this subsection and who after making such election is unmarried 
and has no dependent child may elect— 
"(A) to terminate the deductions and withholdings from his 
salary under paragraph (2) of this subsection and any installment 
payments elected to be made under paragraph (3) of this subsec-
tion, and 
"(B) to have any amounts credited to his individual account 
under this subsection, to the date of his election under this sen-
tence, returned to him, together with interest at 4 per centum per 
annum to December 31,1947, and 3 per centum per annum there-
after compounded annually to December 31, 1956. 
Any election under the preceding sentence shall be made in writing 
and filed with the Commissioner in such manner and at such time as 
he shall prescribe." 
Approved December 5, 1969. 
December 5, 1969 
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Public Law 91-141 
Making further continuing 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
appropriations for the fiscal year 1970, and for 
other purposes. 
Continuing 
appropriations, 
1970. 
Ante, 
p. 193. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled. That clause (c) of section 
102 of the joint resolution of November 14,1969 (Public Law 91-117), 
is hereby amended by striking out "December 6, 1969" and inserting 
in lieu thereof "the sine die adjournment of the first session of the 
Ninety-first Congress". 
Approved December 5, 1969.