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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · July 17, 1917 · Chapter 38

Chapter 38. Making appropriations for certain session employees of the Senate and House of Representatives

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CHAP. 38.— An Act Making appropriations for certain session employees of the Senate and House of Representatives. July 17, 1917.[[H. R. 5405](/us/bill/65/hr/5405).][[Public, No. 28](/us/pl/65/28).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriations for session employees of Congress. That the following sums are appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Senate.senate. Pages.For sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $2.50 per day each from and including July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, until the close of the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, so much as may be necessary.
House of Representatives.house of representatives. Pages.For the following employees, from and including July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, until the close of the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress: Forty-six pages, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, one press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the Post office messengers.entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each; nine messengers in the post office at the rate of $100 per month each; so much as may be necessary.
Approved, July 17, 1917.
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