Chapter 1. Making appropriations for certain expenses of the legislative branch incident to the first session of the Seventy-first Congress
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CHAP. 1.— An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses of the legislative branch incident to the first session of the Seventy-first Congress. April 26, 1929.[[H. R. 1412](/us/bill/71/hr/1412).][[Public, No. 1](/us/pl/71/1).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwiseAppropriations for the first session, Seventy-first Congress. appropriated, to defray certain expenses incident to the first session of the Seventy-first Congress, namely: senateSenate.
For mileage of Senators, $51,000.Mileage.Pages.*Post*, p. 34. For twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $3.30 each per day from April 15, 1929, until the end of the first session of the Seventy-first Congress, such amount as may be necessary. For equipment and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants,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, fiscal year 1929, $5,000. house of representativesHouse of Representatives.
To pay the widow of Royal H. Weller, late a Representative fromRoyal H. Weller.Pay to widow. the State of New York, $10,000. To pay the widow of Charles W. Roark, late a Representative fromCharles W. Roark.Pay to widow. the State of Kentucky, $10,000. For the benefit of Robert C. Martin, minor son of Whitmell P.Whitmell P. Martin.Pay to minor son. Martin, late a Representative from the State of Louisiana, $10,000, to be paid to the legal guardian of Robert C. Martin. The three foregoing sums shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House.
For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses ofMileage. Resident Commissioners, $175,000. For stationery for Members and Delegates and Resident Commissioners,Stationery. at $125 each, $55,000. For forty-one pages, including ten pages for duty at the entrancesPages.*Post*, p. 45. to the Hall of the House, at $3.30 each per day, from April 15, 1929, until the end of the first session of the Seventy-first Congress, such amount as may be necessary. 1 2 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, fiscal year 1929, $25,390.43.
Special and select committees.For expenses of special and select committees, fiscal year 1929, $4,424.65. Approved, April 26, 1929.