Chapter 168. Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 168.— An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes.February 23, 1927.[[H. R. 16863](/us/bill/69/hr/16863).][[Public, No. 631](/us/pl/69/631).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Legislative appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, namely:
SENATESenate. salaries and mileage of senatorsSenators. Compensation.For compensation of Senators, $960,000. For mileage of Senators, $51,000. Officers, clerks, messengers, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: 1147 OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENTVice President’s office. Salaries: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,200; assistant clerk,Secretary and clerks. $2,080; clerk, $1,940: assistant clerk. $1,830; in all, $10,050. chaplainChaplain. For Chaplain, $1,520. office of the secretarySecretary’s office.
Salaries: Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursingSecretary, assistant, clerks, etc. officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; Assistant Secretary, Henry M. Rose, $4,500; chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of reading clerk, $5,500; financial clerk, $5,000; principal clerk, $3,420; assistant financial clerk, $4,200; minute and Journal clerk, $4,200; legislative clerk, $3,150; librarian, $3,000; enrolling clerk, $3,150; printing clerk, $3,000; executive clerk, $2,800; file clerk, chief bookkeeper, and assistant Journal clerk, at $2,880 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, $2,780 each; assistant librarian, $2,150; skilled laborer, $1,520; clerks—three at $2,880 each, one at $2,590, one at $2,460, one at $2,100, one at $1,800, one at $1,770; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,360; assistant in stationery room, $1,520; messenger in library, $1,310; special officer, $2,150; assistant in library, $1,520; laborers— four at $1,140 each, two at $1,010 each, one in stationery room. $1,440; in all, $102,620. document roomDocument room.
Salaries: Superintendent, $3,600; first assistant, $3,000; secondSuperintendent, etc. assistant, in lieu of employee heretofore paid under Senate Resolution Numbered 90, $2,400; two clerks, at $1,770 each; skilled laborer, $1,520; in all, $14,060. committee employeesCommittee clerks. Clerks and messengers to the following committees: AgricultureClerks and messengers to designated committees. and Forestry—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, in lieu of employee heretofore paid under Senate resolution, $2,500; assistant clerk, $2,150: assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Appropriations— clerk, $6,000; assistant clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $3,000; three assistant clerks, at $2,700 each; two assistant clerks, at $2,100 each; messenger, $1,520. To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Banking and Currency—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Civil Service—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,570; assistant clerk, $2,360; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Commerce—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830. Conference Minority of the Senate-clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. District of Columbia—clerk, $3,300; resident assistant clerk, in lieu of employee heretofore paid under Senate resolution, $2,500; assistant clerk, $2,480; assistant clerk,$1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Education and Labor—clerk, $3,300: assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk. $1,830; additional clerk,$1,520. Expenditures in the Executive Departments—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150: assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Finance—clerk, $3,600; special assistant to the committee, $3,150; 1148assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,460; assistant clerk. $1,940; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each; two experts (one for the majority and one for the minority), at $2,360each; messenger, $1,520.
Foreign relations—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520; messenger, $1,520. Immigration—clerk. $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Indian Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,570; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Inter-oceanic Canals—clerk. $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Interstate Commerce—clerk. $3,300; assistant clerk, in lieu of employee heretofore paid under Senate resolution, $2,500; two assistant clerks, at $2,150 each; assistant clerk, $1,830. Irrigation and Reclamation— clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Judiciary—clerk, $3,300: assistant clerk, $2,590; two assistant clerks, at $2,150 each; assistant clerk, $1,830. Library— clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk. $1,520.
Manufactures—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk. $1,520. Military Affairs— clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; additional clerk, $1,940: three assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Mines and Mining—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830: additional clerk, $1,520. Naval Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $1,940; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Patents—clerk. $3,300; assistant clerk. $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Pensions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; four assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; three assistant clerks, at $1,830 each; additional clerk, $1,520, in lieu of clerk paid from contingent fund under Senate resolution of July 17, 1914. Printing—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk. $1,520. Privileges and Elections—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Public Buildings and Grounds— clerk, $3,300: assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Public Lands and Surveys—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $2,150; two assistant, clerks, at $1,830 each. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Rules—clerk, Preparing Senate Manual.$3,300, to include full compensation for the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual under the direction of the Committee on Rules; two assistant clerks, at $2,150 each; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Territories and Insular Possessions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520; in all, $380,940. clerical assistance to senatorsClerical assistance to Senators. Allowance to Senators not chairmen of specified committees.For clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein: Seventy clerks at $3,300 each, seventy assistant clerks at $1,940 each, seventy assistant clerks at $1,830 each. $494,900: *Provided*, That such clerks and *Proviso*.Authority as committee clerks.assistant clerks shall be ex officio clerks and assistant clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman;
Additional clerks.Seventy additional clerks at $1,520 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. $106,400; messenger, $1,520; in all. $602,820. Continuance for one month, of clerks of Senators or Representatives dying during term.That hereafter when a Senator or Member of the House of Representatives or Delegate or Resident Commissioner dies during his term of office the clerical assistants appointed by him, and then borne upon 1149the pay rolls of the Senate or House of Representatives, shall be continued on such pay rolls in their respective positions and be paid for a period not longer than one month: *Provided*, That this shall*Proviso*.Standing committee clerks excepted. not apply to clerical assistants of standing committees of the Senate or House of Representatives, when their service otherwise would continue beyond such period. office of sergeant at arms and doorkeeperOffice of Sergeant at Arms.Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistants, etc.Messengers.
Salaries: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $4,200; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $4,200; two floor assistants, at $3,600 each; messengers—live (acting as assistant door-keepers, including one for minority) at $2,150 each, thirty-seven (including one for minority) at $1,770 each, one $1,310, one at card door, $2,400; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,800; Deputy Sergeant at Arms and storekeeper, $3,600; clerk, $2,140; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,520; upholsterer and locksmith, $2,100; cabinetmaker, $1,800; three carpenters, at $1,800 each; janitor, $1,800; skilled laborers—four at $1,440 each, one at $1,310;Laborers, etc. laborer in charge of private passage, $1,340; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms, at $1,240 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $1,240 each; telephone operators—chief $2,040, seven at $1,200 each; night operator, $1,010; telephone page, $1,010: laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $950; press gallery—superintendent $3,300, assistant superintendent $2,240; messenger for service to press correspondents, $1,240; laborers—three at $1,100 each, thirty-four at $1,010 each; twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, atPages. the rate of $3,30 per day each during the session, $14,483.70; in all, $211,373.70. ‘ .
For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant atPolice, Senate Office Building. Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,360 each: special officer, $1,520; in all, $23,280. post officePost office. Salaries: Postmaster, $2,740; chief clerk, $2,150; wagon master,Postmaster, etc. $1,800; eight mail carriers, at $1,520 each; two riding pages, at $1,220 each; in all, $21290. folding roomFolding room. Salaries: Foreman, $1,940; assistant, $1,730; clerk, $1,520;Foremen, etc. folders—seven at $1,310 each, seven at $1,140 each; in all, $22,340. contingent expenses of the senateContingent expenses.
For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate,Stationery. including $7,500 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $25,000. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of SergeantPostage stamps. at Arms, $100; in all, $300. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles forVehicles. carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $10,000. For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile forAutomobile, Vice President. the Vice President, $3,500.
For materials for folding, $1,500.Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $10,000. 1150 Fuel, oil, etc.For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $2,000. Furniture.For the purchase of furniture, $5,000. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000. Packing boxes.For packing boxes, $970. Document warehouse.For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $2,000.
Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $125,000. Inquiries and investigations.For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, $150,000. Reporting debates.For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $50,844.
Senate kitchens and restaurants.For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $35,000. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESHouse of Representatives. salaries and mileage of membersMembers. Fay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $4,407,500.
Mileage.For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: office of the speakerSpeaker’s office. Secretary, parliamentarian, etc.Digest of the Rules.*Proviso*.Clerk at Speaker’s table to be the parliamentarian.Salaries: Secretary to the Speaker, $4,200; parliamentarian, $4,000, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum: *Provided*, That the designation of the position “clerk to the Speaker’s table” is hereby changed to “parliamentarian” without affecting the status of the present incumbent or requiring a reappointment; assistant Clerks and messengers.parliamentarian, $2,500; clerk to the Speaker, $1,940; messenger to the Speaker’s table, $1,520; messenger to the Speaker, $1,440; in all, $16,600. chaplainChaplain.
For Chaplain, $1,520. office of the clerkClerk’s office. Clerk of the House, clerks, etc.Salaries: Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; Journal clerk and two reading clerks, at $4,200 each; disbursing clerk, $3,570; tally clerk, $3,470; file clerk, $3,420; enrolling clerk, $3,200 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; property custodian and superintendent of furniture and repair shop, who shall be a skilled cabinetmaker or upholsterer and experienced in the construction and purchase of furniture, $3,600; two assistant custodians at $3,000 each: chief bill clerk. $3,150; assistant enrolling clerk, $2,880; assistant to disbursing clerk, $2,780; stationery clerk, 1151$2,570; librarian, $2,460: assistant librarian. $2,240; assistant file clerk, $2,250; assistant librarian, and assistant Journal clerk, at $2,150 each; clerks—one at $2,150, three at $2,020 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,940 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,830 each; stenographer to the Clerk, $1,730; locksmith and typewriter repairer, $1,020; messenger and clock repairer, $1,520; assistant in stationery room, $1,520; three messengers, at $1,410 each; stenographer to Journal clerk, $1,310; twelve telephone operators, at $1,200 each; three session telephone operators, at $100 per month each from December 1, 1927, to June 30, 1928; substitute telephone operator when required, at $3.30 per day, $1,200; laborers—three at $1,200 each, nine at $1,010 each; purchase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicle, $1,200; in all, $128,920. committee employeesCommittee employees.
Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees:Clerks and janitors. Accounts—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,310. Agriculture—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1310. Appropriations—clerk, $5,000, and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; the positions of assistant clerk at $4,000, six assistant clerks at $3,000 each, and assistant clerk at $2,440, are abolished and in lieu thereof there are hereby established to perform the duties of such positions the following:
Assistant clerk at $4,500, five assistant clerks at $3,300 each, and assistant clerk at $2,700, and for such positions there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1928, $23,700; janitor, $1,440, Banking and Currency— clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Census—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Civil Service—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Coin-age, Weights, and Measures—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010.
Disposition of Useless Executive Papers—clerk, $2,360. District of Columbia—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,010. Education—clerk, $2,360. Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk, $2,360. Elections Numbered 1— clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Elections Numbered 2—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Elections Numbered 3—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Flood Control—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010.
Foreign Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,010. Immigration and Naturalization— clerk, $2,880; janitor, $1,010. Indian Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,010. Industrial Arts and Expositions— clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Insular Affairs—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk, $3,300; additional clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk. $1,830: janitor, $1,310. Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010.
Invalid Pensions—clerk, $2,880; stenographer, $2,560; expert examiner (Norman E. Ives), $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,360; janitor. $1,240. Judiciary— clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; janitor, $1,240. Labor—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Library—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Military Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor. $1,310. Mines and Mining—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Naval Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310.
Patents—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Pensions—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,940; janitor, $1,010. Post Office and Post Roads—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,730; janitor, $1,310. Printing—clerk, $2,360: janitor, $1,310. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Public Lands— 1152clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Revision of Codifying District of Columbia laws.the Laws—clerk, $3,000; janitor, $1,010; to continue the employment of competent persons to assist in compiling and codifying the laws relating to the District of Columbia, $11,652, of which $1,652 shall be immediately available.
Rivers and Harbors—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,310. Roads—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Rules—deck, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,010. Territories—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. War Claims—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Ways and Means—clerk, $4,200; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,360; assistant clerk, $2,250; clerk for the minority, $2,880; janitors—one $1,310, one $1,010. World War Veterans’ Legislation—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150.
In all, $261,362. Clerks subject to Clerk of the House at the end of the Congress.Appropriations in the foregoing paragraph shall not be available for the payment of any clerk or assistant clerk to a committee who does not, after the termination of the Congress during which he was appointed, perform his duties under the direction of the Clerk *Proviso*.Committee on Accounts excepted.of the House: *Provided*, That the foregoing shall not apply to the Committee on Accounts. Janitors.Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen, Appointment, etc.respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed. office of sergeant at armsOffice of Sergeant at Arms.
Sergeant at Arms, deputy, cashier, etc.Salaries: Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; Deputy Sergeant at Arms, $2,880; cashier, $4,000; two bookkeepers, at $3,000 each; Deputy Sergeant at Arms in charge of pairs, $2,500; pair clerk and messenger $2,500; messenger, $1,730; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; skilled laborer, $1,140; hire for automobile, $600; in all, $29,050. Police, House Office Building.For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms: Lieutenant, $1,520; nineteen privates, at $1,360 each; in all, $27,360. office of doorkeeperOffice of Doorkeeper.
Doorkeeper, special employee, etc.Salaries: Doorkeeper, $5,000; special employee, $2,500; superintendent of House press gallery, $3,300; assistant to the superintendent Messengers, etc.of the House press gallery, $2,240: janitor, $2,400; messengers—seven-teen at $1,500 each, fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,520 each: laborers—seventeen at $1,010 each, two known as cloakroom men at $1,140 each, eight known as cloakroom men, one at $1,010, and seven at $890 each; three female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms, at $1,440 each; attendant for the ladies’ reception room, $1,200;
Folding room.Superintendent, etc.superintendent of folding room, $2,880; foreman of folding room, $2,340; chief clerk to superintendent of folding room. $2,150; three clerks, at $1,940 each; janitor, $1,010; laborer, $1,010; thirty-one folders, at $1,200 each; shipping clerk, $1,520; two drivers, at $1,140 each; Pages.two chief pages, at $1,740 each; two telephone pages, at $1,440 each; two floor managers of telephones (one for the minority), at $2,880 each; two assistant floor managers in charge of telephones (one for the minority) at $1,830 each; forty-one pages, during the session, including ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $3.30 per day each, $28 377.70; press-gallery page, Document room.Superintendent, etc.$1,200; superintendent of document room, $3,500; assistant superintendent of document room, $2,460, and $420 additional while the position is held by the present incumbent; clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,940; eight assistants, at $1,600 each; janitor. $1320; messen 1153ger to pressroom, $1,310; maintenance and repair of folding room motor truck, $500; in all, $222,087.70. special and minority employeesSpecial and minority employees.
For the employment of Joel Grayson in the document room, $3,300.Joel Grayson.Minority employees, For six minority employees at $2,500 each, authorized and named in the resolution of December 7, 1925, $15,000. To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the foldingSpecial employees. room, authorized in the resolution of September 30, 1913, $1,742.16. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April 28, 1914, as a laborer, $1,140. To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December 19, 1901, $1,140.
Clerk, under the direction of the Clerk of the House, named in the resolution of February 13, 1923, $2,740. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the five precedingAppointment of successors. paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Office of majority floor leader: Legislative clerk, $3,600; clerk,Majority floor leader. $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310; in all, $9,620. Conference minority: Clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor,Conference minority. $1,310; in all, $6,020.
The foregoing employees to be appointed by the minority leader. To continue the employment of messengers in the majority andCaucus room messengers. minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,520 each; in all, $3,040. post officePost office. Salaries: Postmaster, $4,200; assistant postmaster, $2,570; registryPostmaster, assistant, etc. and money-order clerk, $1,830; thirty-four messengers (including one to superintend transportation of mails), at $1,520 each; for the employment of substitute messengers, and extra services of regular employees at the rate of not to exceed $125 per month each, $1,000; laborer, $1,010; in all, $62,290.
For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorMail vehicles. vehicles for carrying the mails, $3,400. official reporters of debates Salaries: Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters. the House, at $6,000 each; assistant (John J. Cameron), $3,000; clerk, $2,750; six expert transcribers, at $1,520 each; janitor, $1,220; in all, $52,090. committee stenographers Salaries: Four stenographers to committees, at $6,000 each;Stenographers to committees. janitor, $1,220; in all, $25,220.
Wherever the words “ during the session ” occur in the foregoing“ During the session” to mean 209 days. paragraphs! they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and nine days from December 5, 1927, to June 30, 1928, both inclusive. clerk hike, members and delegates For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member, Delegate,Clerk hire of Members, etc. and Resident Commissioner, in the discharge of his official and representative duties, in accordance with the Act entitled “An ActVol. 43, p. 152.*Ante*, p. 1148. to fix the. compensation of officers and employees of the Legislative Branch of the Government,” approved May 24, 1924, $1,760,000. 1154 contingent expenses of the houseContingent expenses.
Folding materials.For materials for folding, $5,000. Furniture, etc.For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including not to exceed $13,000 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, and including not to exceed $10,000 for material and labor to reconstruct office cabinets and to convert roll-top desks into Unexpended balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 544.flat-top desks, $38,000, and in addition the unexpended balance of the appropriation for special and select committees for the fiscal year 1927 is reappropriated and made available.
Packing boxes,For packing boxes, $4,500. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, and including reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually and necessarily paid out by them for transcribing hearings, $75,000. Committee reporting.For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than special and select committees, $15,000. Special and select committees.For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $40,000.
Telegraph and telephone service.For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, $60,000. Stationery.For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000. Postage stamps.For postage stamps: Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant at Arms, $300; Doorkeeper. $150; in all, $1,150. Automobile, Speaker.For driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $3,000. , Folding.For folding Speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $8,000.
Clerical assistance to Clerk of the House.Specified objects.For assistance rendered during the calendar years 1926 and 1927 in compiling list of reports to be made to Congress by public officials; compiling copy and revising proofs for the House portion of the Official Register; preparing and indexing the statistical reports of the Clerk of the House; compiling the telephone and Members’ directories; preparing and indexing the daily Calendars of Business; preparing the official statement of Members’ voting records; preparing list of congressional nominees, and statistical summary of elections; preparing and indexing questions of order printed in Recording, etc., political statements.the appendix to the Journal pursuant to House Rule ill; and for recording and filing statements of political committees and Vol. 43, p. 1071.candidates for election to the House of Representatives pursuant to the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, 1925, $5,000.
CAPITOL POLICECapitol police. Pay.Salaries: Captain, $2,150; three lieutenants, at $1,520 each; two special officers, at $1,520 each; three sergeants, at $1,410 each; forty-four privates, at $1,360 each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House; in all. $73,820. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, $200. Uniforms, etc.For purchasing and supplying uniforms and motor cycles to Capitol police, $3,750. .
Division of disbursements.One-half of the foregoing amounts under “ Capitol police ” shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House. 1155 JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTINGJoint Committee on Printing. For clerk, $4,000; inspector, under section 20 of the Act approvedClerk, etc.Vol. 28, p. 603. January 12, 1895, $2,490; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,100; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the CongressionalCongressional Directory.
Directory, $1,600; in all, $10,190, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and tile other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSELOffice of Legislative Counsel. For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the office of LegislativeSalaries, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1141; Vol. 43, p. 353. Counsel, as authorized by section 1303 of the Revenue Act of 1918 as amended by section 1101 of the. Revenue Act of 1924, $75,000, of which $37,500 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $37,500 by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONSStatement of appropriations. For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on AppropriationsFor preparing, second session. Sixty-ninth Congress. of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the second session of the Sixty-ninth Congress, showing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid toVol. 25, p. 587. the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do the work.
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOLArchitect of the Capitol. office of architect of the capitol Salaries: Architect of the Capitol, $6,000; chief clerk, $3,150; civilArchitect, chief clerk, etc. engineer, $2,770; two clerks, at $1,840 each; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; laborers—one at $1,104, two at $1,010 each, two at $950 each; forewoman of charwomen, $760; twenty-one charwomen, at $412.80 each; in all, $31,052,80. For forty-eight elevator conductors, including fourteen for theElevator conductors.
Senate Office Building and fourteen for the House Office Building, at $1,520 each, $72,960. capitol buildings and groundsCapitol buildings and grounds. Capitol Buildings: For necessary expenditures for the CapitolGeneral repairs to buildings. Building under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, and appurtenances; personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of art; purchase or exchange, maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-currying office vehicles; and not exceeding $200 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory; $100,735,80, of which $23,200 shall be immediately available.
Appropriations herein made under the control of the ArchitectTravel allowances. 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 $1,000. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surroundingImproving grounds. the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; personal and other services; care of trees; plantings; fertilizers; repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; purchase of waterproof wearing apparel; and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment orSnow removal. under contract without compliance with sections 3709 and 3744 of[R.
S., secs. 3709, 3744, pp. 733, 738](/us/rs/s3709/3744/pp733/738). the Revised Statutes of the United States; $74,792,20. 1156 Extension of Capitol grounds.Removing buildings on acquired grounds, etc.Extension of the Capitol Grounds: To enable the Architect of the Capitol to remove or provide for the removal of all buildings (except those occupied by Government activities) or other structures upon the land acquired for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, including grading and other expenses incident to such removal; and for the preparation of plans for the development of such land as a permanent extension of the Capitol Grounds, including architectural and other personal services and traveling expenses connected therewith, to be immediately available, $20,000.
Repairs, garages, etc.For repairs and improvements to Senate and House garages and Maltby Building, including personal services, $1,500. Senate Office Building.Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment and for Maintenance.labor and material incident thereto and repairs thereof; and for personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $87,854.
House Office Buildings.Maintenance.House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $107,610.20. Capitol power plant.Maintenance.Capitol power plant: For lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Congressional library Buildings supplied.Building, and the grounds about the same, Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Union Station group of temporary housing, Botanic Garden, Senate garage, House garage, Maltby Building, folding and storage rooms of the Senate, Government Printing Office, and Washington City post office; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,940 per annum and $300 additional for the maintenance of an automobile for his use, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; personal and other services; structures for coal and ash storage; fuel, oil, materials, labor, advertising, and purchase of waterproof wearing apparel, in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant and substations connected therewith; $384,906.
New electric generator, etc.For the purchase and installation of one new five thousand kilowatt turbine and generator, repairs to motor generators in substations, repairs to turbine numbered 2, and for incidental expenses connected with such installations, repairs, and alterations, $210,000, to be immediately available. Purchases independent of Supply Committee.Vol. 36, p. 531.The foregoing appropriations under the Architect of the Capitol may be expended without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments.
Reimbursement for current furnished to other Government buildings.The Department of the Interior, the Public Health Service, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Union Station group of temporary housing, the Government Printing Office, and the Washington City post office shall reimburse the Capitol power plant for heat, light, and power furnished during the fiscal year 1928, and the amounts so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriation for such plant and be available for the purposes named therein. library building and groundsLibrary Building and grounds.
Operating force.Salaries: Chief engineer, $2,520; chief electrician, $2,520; decorator, $2,000; painter, $1,728; assistant engineer—one $1,860, two at $1,764 each, one $1,728; two machinists at $1,764 each; three assistant electricians at $1,800 each; carpenters—one $1,800, one $1,728; plumber, $1,740; skilled laborers-—two at $1,320 each, five at $1,260 each; general mechanic, $1,800; two laborers at $1,020 each; in all, $42,860. 1157 For trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for theTrees, plants, etc. grounds of Library of Congress and for repointing and repairing masonry wall around Library grounds, $2,500.
For necessary expenditures for the Library Building under theRepairs, etc. jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, and appurtenances, and personal and other services in connection with the mechanical and structural maintenance of such building, $23,300. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electricalFurniture, shelving, etc. work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, $14,000.
For two card catalogue cases of special design and size, for extensionCard catalogue cases. of the catalogues of the main reading room and of the catalogue division of the Library, $12,000, to. be immediately available. BOTANIC GARDENBotanic Garden, Salaries: For the director and other personal services in accordanceDirector, and personnel. with the Classification Act of 1923, $79,417; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. Repairs and improvements: For procuring manure, soil, tools,Repairs, improvements, etc. purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; materials and miscellaneous supplies, including rubber boots and aprons when required for use by employees in connection with their work; traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the director and his assistants not to exceed $475; street-car fares not exceeding $25; office equipment and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden; exchange, care, and maintenance of motor-propelled vehicles; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to exceed $100; general repairs to buildings, greenhouses, heating apparatus, packing sheds, storerooms, and stables; painting, glazing; repairs to footwalks and roadways; repairing and putting comfort stations in sanitary condition; repairs and improvements to director’s residence; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $47,800.
The sum of $150 may be expended at any one time by the BotanicMinor purchases without advertising.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 773](/us/rs/s3709/p773). Garden for the purchase of plants, trees, shrubs, and other nursery stock, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. LIBRARY OF CONGRESSLibrary of Congress. salaries For the Librarian, chief assistant librarian, and other personalLibrarian, and personnel. services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $564,805. copyright officeCopyright office.
For the register of copyrights, assistant register, and other personalRegister, and personnel. services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $175,100. legislative reference serviceLegislative Reference Service. To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent personsPersonnel for designated work. to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, including not to exceed $5,700 for employees engaged on piecework and work by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $63,650. 1158 distribution of card indexesCard indexes.
Distribution services.For the distribution of card indexes and other publications of the library, including personal services, freight charges (not exceeding $500), expressage, postage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, and including not to exceed $26,000 for employees engaged on piecework and work by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian; in all, $118,010, of which $3,000 shall be immediately available.
Termporary services.Temporary services: For special and temporary service, including extra special services of regular employees, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $3,000. sunday openingSunday opening. Expenses.To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference use on Sundays and on holidays within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $13,125. increase of the libraryIncrease of the Library.
Purchase of books, etc.For purchase of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, and all other material, for the increase of the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, and ail other material for the increase of the Library, by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year 1929, $105,000.
Law books, etc.For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000. Books for Supreme Court.For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,500. printing and binding Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for the Library Building, $260,000.
Catalogue of Title Entries.For the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, $45,000. contingent expenses of the library Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, stationery, supplies, stock, and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $10,000. library buildingLibrary building.
Administrative assistant end office personnel.Salaries: For the administrative assistant and disbursing officer and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $120,402. 1159 For extra services of employees and additional employees underSunday, etc., opening. the Librarian to provide for the opening of the Library Building on Sundays and on legal holidays, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $3,740. For special and temporary services in connection with the custody,Temporary services. care, and maintenance of the Library Building, including extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $500.
For mail, delivery, and telephone services, stationery, miscellaneousIncidental expenses. supplies, and all other incidental expenses in connection with the custody and maintenance of the Library Building, $7,000. For any expense of the Library of Congress Trust Fund BoardTrust Fund Board. not properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the board, $500. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICEGovernment Printing Office. public printing and bindingPrinting and binding. To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the followingWorking capital provided. purposes for the execution of printing, binding, lithographing, mapping, engraving, and other authorized work of the Government Printing Office for the various branches of the Government:
For salaries of Public Printer, $7,500, and Deputy Public Printer,Public Printer, Deputy, and office personnel. $5,000; for salaries, office of the Public Printer, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, not to exceed $143,953, and for the purpose of conforming to section 3 of this Act, this sum shall beDeemed a separate unit.*Post*, p. 1161.Salaries, wages, etc. considered a separate unit; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary officers and employees additional to those herein appropriated for, including employees necessary to handle waste paper and condemned material for sale; to enable the Public Printer toHolidays. comply with the provisions of law granting holidays and Executive orders granting holidays and half holidays with pay to employees; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions ofLeaves of absence. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to employees with pay; rents, fuel, gas, heat, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, motor-propelled vehicles for the carriage of printingContingent expenses. and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including purchase, exchange, operation, repair, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $4,000); freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses; stationery. postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, and books of reference (not exceeding $500) subscriptions for which may be paid in advance; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceedingMachinery, equipment, etc. $200,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty: other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer: *Provided*, That inks, glues, and other supplies manufactured by the*Proviso*.Furnishing supplies to Departments, etc.
Government Printing Office in connection with its work may be furnished to departments and other establishments of the Government upon requisition, and payment made from appropriations available therefor; for expenses authorized in writing by the Joint CommitteeInspection. on Printing for the inspection of printing and binding equipment, 1160material, and supplies and Government printing plants in the District Indexes, Congressional Record.of Columbia or elsewhere' (not exceeding $1,000); for salaries and expenses of preparing the semimonthly and session indexes of the Congressional Record under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing (chief indexer at $3,150, one cataloguer at $2,880, and Paper, materials, etc.two cataloguers at $2,150 each); and for all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment needed in the prosecution and Charged to Congress.delivery and mailing of the work; in all, $2,500,000, to which shall be charged the printing and binding authorized to be done for Congress, the printing and binding for use of the Government Printing Office, Architect of the Capitol.and printing and binding (not exceeding $2,000) for official use of the Architect of the Capitol when authorized by the Secretary of the Senate, in all to an amount not exceeding this sum.
Authority for Congressional work.Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. Payment for work ordered by departments, etc.During the fiscal year 1928 any executive department or independent establishment of the Government ordering printing and binding from the Government Printing Office shall pay promptly by cheek 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 *Proviso*.Adjustment of accounts.certification in advance of payment: *Provided*, That proper adjustments 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 Sums paid for work to be credited to working capital.concerned.
All sums paid to the Public Printer for work that he is authorized by law to do shall be deposited to the credit, on the books of the Treasury Department, of the appropriation made for the working capital of the Government Printing Office, for the year in which the work is done, and be subject to requisition by the Public Printer. Estimates for departments, etc., to be incorporated in single items.All amounts in the Budget for the fiscal year 1929 for printing and binding for any department or establishment, so far as the Bureau of the Budget may deem practicable, shall be incorporated in a single item for printing and binding for such department or establishment and be eliminated as a part of any estimate for any other Details to be given, if part of other items.purpose.
And if any amounts for printing and binding are included as a part of any estimates for any other purposes, such amounts shall be set forth in detail in a note immediately following the general *Proviso*.Engraving and Printing Bureau excepted.estimate for printing and binding: *Provided*, That the foregoing requirement shall not apply to work to be executed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Restriction on paying detailed employees.No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. office of superintendent of documentsOffice of Superintendent of Documents.
Superintendent, and personnel.For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act *Provisos*.Compensation allowed for night, etc., work.of 1923, $420,000: *Provided*, That employees in the office of the Superintendent of Documents may be paid compensation for night, 1161Sunday, holiday, and overtime work at rates not in excess of the rates of additional compensation for such work allowed to other employees of the Government Printing Office under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees andVol. 43, p. 658. officers of the Government Printing Office,” approved June 7, 1924: *Provided further*, That for the purpose of conforming to section 3Item a separate unit.*Infra.* of this Act, this appropriation shall be considered a separate appropriation unit.
For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-savingContingent expenses. machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference (subscriptions to which may be paid in advance); directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies, paper, twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car fares, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; traveling expenses (not to exceed $200); repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $77,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $18,000; for supplying books to depository libraries, $85,000; in all, $180,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to*Proviso*.Supplying depository libraries restricted. depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such libraries.
In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding forPrinting reports of department etc., may be discontinued. the fiscal year 1928 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: *Provided*, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued,*Proviso*.Originals to be kept for public inspection. 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.
Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriations underPurchases allowed without reference to Supply Committee.Vol. 28, p. 601.Vol. 36, p. 531, the “Government Printing Office,” as provided for in the Printing Act approved January 12, 1895, and without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments. Sec. 2. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used forPrivate vehicles restriction. the maintenance or care of private vehicles.
Sec. 3. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations,Restriction on exceeding average salaries in designated offices.Vol. 42, p. 1488. contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, or the Government Printing Office, shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, and inIf only one position in a grade. grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one positionAdvances allowed in unusually meritorious eases. in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.
That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service,
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, inNo fixed salary reduction.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction. accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)toHigher salary rates permitted. prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher 1162than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, and is specifically authorized by other law. Approved, February 23, 1927.