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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · December 18, 1917 · Chapter 4

Chapter 4.

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CHAP. 4.— Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, nineteen hundred and seventeen. December 18, 1917.[[H. J. Res. 193](/us/bill/67/hjres/193).][[Pub. Res., No. 18](/us/bill/65/pubres/18).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Congressional officers, etc., to be paid December, 1917, salaries on day of adjournment for holiday recess. That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives are authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives, including the Capitol police, their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on the day of adjournment of the present session for the Clerk hire of Members and Delegates.holiday recess; and the Clerk of the House is authorized to pay on the same day to Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners their allowance for clerk hire for the said month of December.
Approved, December 18, 1917.
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