Chapter 1. Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1.— An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, and for other purposes. April 18, 1921.[[H. R. 3707](/us/bill/67/hr/3707).][[Public, No. 1](/us/pl/67/1).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums areAppropriations for expenses, first session, Sixty-seventh Congress, etc. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. For mileage of Senators, $51,000.Mileage. For annual compensation of a clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600,Clerks for designated committees. assistant clerk $1,500, and an additional clerk $1,200, from April 16, 1921, to June 30, 1922, both dates inclusive, for each of the following committees: Civil Service, Enrolled Bills, Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Irrigation and Reclamation, Library, Mines and Mining. Patents, Revision of the Laws, and Territories and Insular Possessions, $73,949.94.
The appropriations for the fiscal years 1921 and 1922 for a clerk Committee on public Lands and Surveys.Appropriations available for clerks to.Vol. 41, pp. 632, 1253.and three assistant clerks for the Committee on Public Lands is hereby made available for payment at the same compensations for a clerk and three assistant clerks to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. The unexpended part of the appropriations for the fiscal year 1921Provisions for clerks to designated committees repealed.Vol. 41, pp. 632, 1253. and the appropriations for the fiscal year 1922 for clerks and assistant clerks to the Committees on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, Pacific Islands, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and the Philippines is hereby repealed.
That part of the appropriations for the fiscal years 1921 and 1922Clerical assistance to Senators reduced.Vol. 41. pp. 632, 1253, amended. for “clerical assistance to Senators,” except the appropriations for compiling the Navy Yearbook, is hereby amended to read as follows: "“Clerical assistance to Senators: For clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein: Seventy clerks at $2,500 each; seventy assistant clerks at $1,600 each; seventy assistant clerks at $1,500 each, $392,000. 1 2 Additional clerks.“Eighty-four additional clerks at $1,200 each, one for each Senator having no more than one clerk and two assistant clerks for himself or for the committee of which he is chairman, $100,800.”" George Curry.Services.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for “Salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others,” fiscal year 1921, to George Curry for services rendered as clerk to the Honorable H.
O. Bursum, Senator from the State of New Mexico, at the rate of $2,500 per annum, from March 12, 1921, to April 10, 1921, both dates inclusive. Edith Shipman.Services.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for “Salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others,” fiscal year, 1921, to Edith Shipman for services rendered as assistant clerk to the Honorable H. O. Bursum, Senator from the State of New Mexico, at the rate of $1,600 per annum from March 12, 1921, to April 10, 1921, both dates inclusive.
Laborer in stationery room.Additional pay.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation “For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers and others,” fiscal year 1922, to the laborer in stationery room, office of the Secretary of the Senate, a sum sufficient to make the compensation $1,200 per annum. Stationery.For stationery for Senators, committees, and officers of the Senate, fiscal year, 1921, $5,000. Assistant financial clerk.Additional pay.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation “For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others,” for the fiscal years 1921 and 1922, to the assistant financial clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, a sum sufficient to make the salary of the position $3,600 per annum.
Pages.For sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $2.50 per day each, from April 11, 1921, to June 30, 1921, $3,240. For sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $2.50 per day each, from July 1, 1921, until the end of the first session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, so much as may be necessary. House of Representatives.house of representatives. Mileage.For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. Stationery.For stationery for Members and Delegates and Resident Commissioners, at $125 each, $55,000.
Pages.For forty-two pages, including two riding pages, one press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, and three telephone operators, at the rate of $75 per month each, during the first session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, so much as may be necessary is appropriated. Telephone pages.Increased pay.For the amount required to increase the compensation of two telephone pages from $2.50 per day each to the rate of $1,200 per annum each from March 4, to March 31, 1921, inclusive, in accordance with House Resolution Numbered 615 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, and for the compensation of such pages at the rate of $1,200 each per Vol. 41, p. 1257.annum from April 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922, inclusive, in lieu of the two telephone pages at $2.50 per day each provided in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $3,040.
Special employees, etc.For the amount required from March 4, 1921, to June 30, 1922, inclusive, to carry out House resolutions numbered 395 and 686 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, $2,517.50. For the amount required from March 4 to June 30, 1921, inclusive, to carry out House resolutions numbered 487, 492, 508, and 514 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, $1,118. Special messenger.Vol. 41, p. 1257.For amount required for a special messenger at $1,800 per annum from April 11, 1921, to June 30, 1922, inclusive, in accordance with 3House resolution numbered 7, of the Sixty-seventh Congress, $2,200; such special messenger to be in lieu of an assistant messenger in charge of telephones for the minority at the rate of $1,500 per annum.
For payment to James Wickersham for expenses incurred as contestantJames Wickersham.Contested election expenses. in the contested-election case of James Wickersham versus Charles A. Sulzer, deceased, and George B. Grigsby, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Three, Sixty-sixth Congress, $2,000. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Colombia. water department.Water Department. Washington Aqueduct: For operation, including salaries of allMaintenance of Washington Aqueduct, etc. necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, fiscal year 1921, $35,000, to be paid from the revenues of theFrom water revenues. water department.
Approved, April 18, 1921.