Chapter 234. Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 234.— An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. February 20, 1931.[[H. R. 16654](/us/bill/71/hr/16654).][[Public, No. 691](/us/pl/71/691).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Legislative appropriations for fiscal year 1932. 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, 1932, namely.
Senate. SENATE Senators. salaries and mileage of senators Compensation. For compensation of Senators, $960,000. Mileage. For mileage of Senators, $51,000. Officers, clerks, messengers, etc. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Vice President’s Office. office of the vice president Secretary and clerks. Salaries: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,620; clerk, $2,400; assistant clerks—one $2,280, one $2,160; in all, $11,460. chaplain Chaplain. Chaplain of the Senate, $1,680. 1175 office of the secretary Secretary’s Office.
Salaries: Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as Secretary, assistant, clerks, etc.disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $8,000; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $4,500; chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of reading clerk, $5,500 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; financial clerk, $5,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant financial clerk, $4,200 and $600 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; minute and journal clerk, $4,500 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; principal clerk, $3,840; legislative clerk, enrolling clerk, and printing clerk at $3,540 each; chief bookkeeper, $3,600; librarian, $3,360; executive clerk, file clerk, and assistant journal clerk at $3,180 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery at $3,120 each; assistant librarian, $2,460; skilled laborer, $1,740; clerks—two at $3,180 each, one $2,880, one $2,760, two at $2,400 each, two at $2,040 each; two assistant keepers of stationery at $2,040 each; assistant in stationery room, $1,740; messenger in library, $1,560; special officer, $2,460; assistant in library, $2,040; laborers—two at $1,620 each, three at $1,380 each, one in stationery room, $1,680; in all, $118,520. document room Document room.
Salaries: Superintendent, $3,960; first assistant, $3,360; second Superintendent, etc.assistant, $2,700; assistant, $2,040; two clerks, at $2,040 each; skilled laborer, $1,740; in all, $17,880. committee employees Committee employees. Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Agriculture Clerks and messengers to designated committees.and Forestry—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800.
Appropriations—clerk, $7,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $4,200; assistant clerk, $3,900; three assistant clerks at $3,000 each; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each; messenger, $1,800. To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Banking and Currency—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220.
Civil Service—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Claims—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Commerce—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220. Conference Majority of the Senate—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220. Conference Minority of the Senate—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220.
District of Columbia—clerk, $3,900; two assistant clerks at $2,880 each; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Education and Labor—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Expenditures in the Executive Depart-1176ments—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Finance—clerk, $4,200; special assistant to the committee, $3,600; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,700; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each; two experts (one for majority and one for the minority) at $3,600 each; messenger, $1,800.
Foreign Relations—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800; messenger, $1,800. Immigration—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Indian Affairs—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Interoceanic Canals—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800.
Interstate Commerce—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220. Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Judiciary—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220. Library—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Manufactures—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800, Military Affairs—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each.
Mines and Mining—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Naval Affairs—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Patents—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Pensions—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; four assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; three assistant clerks at $2,220 each; additional clerk, $1,800.
Printing—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Privileges and Elections—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Public Lands and Surveys—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Revision of Laws—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800.
Rules—Preparing Senate Manual.clerk, $3,900, and $200 toward the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual under the direction of the Committee on Rules; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Territories and Insular Possessions—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800; in all, $481,300. Clerical assistance to Senators. clerical assistance to senators Allowance to Senators not chairmen of designated committees.
Clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein, as follows: Seventy clerks at $3,900 each; seventy assistant clerks at $2,400 each, and seventy assistant clerks at $2,220 each, $596,400. Such clerks and assistant Authority as committee clerks.clerks shall be ex officio clerks and assistant clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman. Additional clerks. Seventy additional clerks at $1,800 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; messenger, $1,800; $127,800; in all, $724,200. 1177 office of sergeant at arms and doorkeeper Office of Sergeant at Arms, etc.
Salaries: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $8,000; two secretaries Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, secretaries, assistants, etc.(one for the majority and one for the minority) at $5,400 each; two assistant secretaries (one for the majority and one for the minority) at $4,320 each: messengers—five (acting as assistant doorkeepers, Messengers, etc.including one for minority) at $2,400 each, thirty-eight (including two for minority) at $2,040 each, one at $1,560, one at card door, $2,880; clerk on journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $3,360;
Deputy Sergeant at Arms and storekeeper, $4,440; clerk, $2,460; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,740; upholsterer and locksmith, $2,400; cabinetmaker, $2,040; three carpenters at $2,040 each; janitor, $2,040; skilled laborers—seven at $1,680 each, one at $1,560; laborer in charge Laborers, etc.of private passage, $1,680; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms at $1.500 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $1,500 each; telephone operators—chief, $2,460, seven at $1,560 each; night operator, $1,380; telephone Pages.page, $1,260; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $1,200; press gallery—superintendent, $3,660, assistant superintendent, $2,520, messenger for service to press correspondents, $1,740; laborers—three at $1,320 each, thirty-four at $1,260 each; twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $4 per day each, during the session, $17,892; in all, $259,832.
Police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Police, Senate Office Building.Arms: Special officer, $1,740: sixteen privates at $1,620 each; in all, $27,660. post office Post office. Salaries: Postmaster, $3,060; chief clerk, $2,460; wagon master, Postmaster, etc.$2,040; seven mail carriers at $1,740 each: two riding pages at $1,440; in all, $22,620. folding room Folding room. Salaries: Foreman, $2,460; assistant, $2,160; clerk, $1,740; Foreman, etc.folders—chief, $2,040, seven at $1,560 each, seven at $1,380 each; in all, $28,980. contingent expenses of the senate Contingent 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, $250: office of Sergeant Postage stamps.at Arms, $100; in all, $350. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for Vehicles.carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $13,000. For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President’s automobile.Vice President, $4,000.
For materials for folding, $1,500. Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $10,000. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, Fuel, oil, advertising, etc.$2,000. For the purchase of furniture, $5,000. Furniture, etc. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3.000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000. 1178 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, $250,000. Reporting debates. For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $60,340.
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. $40,000. House of Representatives. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Members. salaries and mileage of members Pay 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, $4,405,000. 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: Speaker’s Office. office of the speaker Secretary, parliamentarian, etc.Digest of Rules.
Salaries: Secretary to the Speaker, $4,620; parliamentarian, $4,500, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; assistant parliamentarian, $2,760; clerk to Speaker, $2,400; clerk to Speaker, $1,440; messenger to Speaker’s table. $1,740; messenger to Speaker, $1,680; in all, $20,140. Chaplain. chaplain Chaplain of the House of Representatives. $1,680. Clerk’s office. office of the clerk Clerk of the House, clerks, etc. Salaries: Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $8,000; journal clerk, two reading clerks, and tally clerk, at $5,000 each; enrolling clerk, $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; disbursing clerk, $3,960; file clerk, $3,780; chief bill clerk, $3,540; assistant enrolling clerk, $3,180; assistant to disbursing clerk, $3,120; stationery clerk, $2,880; librarian, $2,760; assistant librarian, and assistant file clerk, at $2,520 each; assistant journal clerk, and assistant librarian, at $2,460 each; clerks—one $2,460, three at $2,340 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $2,160 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk at $2,100 each; stenographer to the Clerk, $1,980; assistant in stationery room, $1,740; three messengers at $1,680 each; stenographer to journal clerk, $1,560; laborers—three at $1,440 each, nine at $1,260 each; telephone operators—assistant chief, $1,620, eighteen at $1,560 each; substitute telephone operator when required, at $4 per day, $1.460; 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, $3,960; two assistant custodians at $3,360 each; locksmith and typewriter repairer, $1,860; 1179messenger and clock repairer, $1,740; purchase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles, $1,200; in all $161,000. committee employees Committee employees.
Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees: Clerks and janitors.Accounts—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,560. Agriculture—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,560. Appropriations—clerk, $7,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $5,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; three assistant clerks at $3,900 each; assistant clerk, $3,600; two assistant clerks at $3,300 each; messenger, $1,680.
Banking and Currency—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Census—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Civil Service—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Disposition of Useless Executive Papers—clerk, $2,760. District of Columbia—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,260. Education—clerk, $2,760. Election of President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress—clerk, $2,760.
Elections Numbered 1—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Elections Numbered 2—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Elections Numbered 3—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Expenditures in Executive Departments—clerk, $3,300; janitor, $1,260. Flood Control—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Foreign Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,260. Immigration and Naturalization—clerk, $3,300; janitor, $1,260. Indian Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,260.
Insular Affairs—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk, $3,900; additional clerk, $2,640; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Invalid Pensions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,880; expert examiner (Norman E. Ives), $2,700; stenographer, $2,640; janitor, $1,500. Judiciary—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,160; assistant clerk, $1,980; janitor, $1,500. Labor—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260.
Library—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Military Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Mines and Mining—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Naval Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Patents—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Pensions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,160; janitor, $1,260. Post Office and Post Roads—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560.
Printing—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,560. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Public Lands—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,300; janitor, $1,260. Rivers and Harbors—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,560. Roads—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Rules—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,260. Territories—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260.
War Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Ways and Means—clerk, $4,620; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,640; assistant clerk, $2,580; clerk for minority, $3,180; janitors—one, $1,560, one, $1,260. World War Veterans’ Legislation—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; in all, $296,000. Appropriations in the foregoing paragraph shall not be available Clerks subject to Clerk of the House after close of Congress.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 1180appointed, perform his duties under the direction of the Clerk of the *Proviso*.Committee on Accounts excepted.House: *Provided*, That the foregoing shall not apply to the Committee on Accounts.
Janitors.Appointment, etc. Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen, 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 Arms. office of sergeant at arms Sergeant at Arms, deputy, cashier, etc.
Salaries: Sergeant at Arms, $8,000; Deputy Sergeant at Arms, $3,180; cashier, $4,920; two bookkeepers at $3,360 each; Deputy Sergeant at Arms in charge of pairs, pair clerk and messenger, and assistant cashier, at $2,820 each; stenographer and typewriter, $600; skilled laborer, $1,380; hire of automobiles, $600; in all, $33,860. Police, House Office Building. Police Force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms: Lieutenant, $1,740; nineteen privates at $1,620 each; in all, $32,520.
Doorkeeper’s office. office of doorkeeper Doorkeeper, special employee, etc. Salaries: Doorkeeper, $6,000; special employee, $2,820; superintendent of House press gallery, $3,660; assistant to the superintendent Messengers.of the House press gallery, $2,520; chief janitor, $2,700; messengers—seventeen at $1,740 each, fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,740 each; laborers—seventeen at $1,260 each, two (cloakroom) at $1,380 each, one (cloakroom) $1,260, and seven (cloakroom) at $1,140 each; three female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $1,680 each; attendant for the ladies’ reception room, $1,440; superintendent Folding room.of folding room, $3,180; foreman of folding room, $2,640; chief clerk to superintendent of folding room, $2,460; three clerks at $2,160 each; janitor, $1,260; laborer, $1,260; thirty-one folders at Pages, etc.$1,440 each; shipping clerk, $1,740; two drivers at $1,380 each; two chief pages at $1,980 each; two telephone pages at $1,680 each; two floor managers of telephones (one for the minority), at $3,180 each; two assistant floor managers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $2,100 each; forty-one pages, during the session, including ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the Document room.House, at $4 per day each, $34,932; press-gallery page, $1,920; superintendent of document room (Elmer A.
Lewis), $3,960; assistant superintendent of document room, $2,760 and $420 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; clerk, $2,320; assistant clerk, $2,160; eight assistants at $1,860 each; janitor, $1,440; messenger to pressroom, $1,560; purchase, maintenance, and repair of folding room motor truck, $1,500, to be immediately available; in all, $263,692. Special and minority employees. special and minority employees Minority employees. For the minority employees authorized anti named in the resolution of April 15, 1929—one at $3,180 (J.
J, Sinnott), five at $2,820 each; in all, $17,280. Special employees. Assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution of September 30, 1913, $1,980. Laborer, authorized and named in the resolution of April 28, 1914, $1,380. Laborer, authorized and named in the resolution of December 19, 1901, $1,380. Clerk, under the direction of the Clerk of the House, named in the resolution of February 13, 1923, $3,060. 1181 Successors to any of the employees provided for in the five preceding Appointment of successors.paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time.
Office of majority floor leader: Legislative clerk, $3,960; clerk, Majority floor leader.$3,180; assistant clerk, $2,100; for official expenses of the majority leader, as authorized by House Resolution Numbered 101, Seventy-first Congress, adopted December 18, 1929, $2,000; in all, $11,240. Conference minority: Clerk, $3,180; legislative clerk, $3,060; Conference minority.assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560; in all $9,900. The foregoing employees to be appointed by the minority leader.
Two messengers, one in the majority caucus room and one in the Caucus rooms messengers.minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,740 each, $3,480. post office Post office. Salaries: Postmaster, $5,000; assistant postmaster, $2,880; registry Postmaster, assistant, etc.and money-order clerk, $2,100; thirty-four messengers (including one to superintend transportation of mails) at $1,740 each; substitute messengers and extra services of regular employees, when required, at the rate of not to exceed $145 per month each, $1,240; laborer, $1,260; in all, $71,640.
For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor Motor vehicles.vehicles for carrying the mails, $3,400. official reporters of debates Salaries: Seven official reporters of the proceedings and debates Official reporters.Number, increased.of the House at $7,500 each; assistant, John J. Cameron, $3,000; clerk, $3,360; six expert transcribers at $1,740 each; janitor, $1,440; in all, $70,740. committee stenographers Salaries: Four stenographers to committees, at $7,000 each; janitor, Stenographers to committees.$1,440; in all, $29,440.
Whenever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing “During the session” to mean 213 days.paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and thirteen days from December 1, 1931, to June 30, 1932, both inclusive. clerk hire, 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 Act *Ante*, p. 38.[U.
S. C., Supp. IV, p. 5](/us/usc/p5).to fix the compensation of officers and employees of the Legislative Branch of the Government,” approved June 20, 1929, $2,200,000. contingent expenses of the house Contingent expenses. For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including not Furniture, etc.to exceed $22,500 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, $42,500. For packing boxes, $4,500. Packing boxes. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries and labor unless Miscellaneous items.specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually and necessarily paid out by them for transcribing hearings, and including materials for folding, $75,000.
For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than Committee reporting.special and select committees, $25,000. 1182 Special and select committees. For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $50,000. Telegraph and telephone service. For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, $90,000. 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.
Emergency room.Medical supplies, services, etc. For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses for the emergency room and for the attending physician and his assistants, including an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month each to two assistants as provided by the House Resolution adopted July 1, 1930, $2,500, of which $1,000 shall be immediately available. Postage stamps. For postage stamps: Postmaster, $250; clerk, $450; sergeant at arms, $300; doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150.
Speaker’s automobile. For driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $4,000. 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 1930 and 1931 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 the Recording, etc., political statements.Vol. 43. p. 1071.[U.
S. C., p. 15](/us/usc/p15).appendix to the Journal pursuant to House Rule III; and for recording and filing statements of political committees and candidates for election to the House of Representatives pursuant to the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, 1925 (U. S. C., title 2, sec. 241–256), $5,000. Capitol police. capitol police Pay. Salaries: Captain, $2,460; three lieutenants at $1,740 each; two special officers at $1,740 each; three sergeants at $1,680 each; forty-four privates at $1,620 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, $87,480.
Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, $200. Capitol police.Uniforms, etc. For purchasing and supplying uniforms and motor cycles to Capitol police, $6,750, to be immediately available. 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. Joint Committee on Printing. Joint Committee on Printing. JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING Clerk, etc.Vol. 28, p. 603.[U.
S. C., p. 1418](/us/usc/p1418). Salaries: Clerk. $4,000 and $800 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; inspector under section 20 of the Act approved January 12, 1895 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. 49), $2,820; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,400; tor expenses of compiling, Congressional Directory.preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $11,620, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.
Joint Committee on the Library. JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY William Howard Taft.Marble bust of. To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to procure for the court room of the Supreme Court of the United States a marble bust, with bracket or pedestal, of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft, $3,000. 1183 OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Office of Legislative Counsel. For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the office of Legislative Salaries, etc.Counsel, as authorized by law, $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 APPROPRIATIONS Statement of Appropriations. For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations Preparing, third session of Seventy-first Congress.Vol. 25, p. 587.of the Senate and House of Representatives of the statements for the third session of the Seventy-first 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 to the persons designated by the chairmen of such committees to do the work.
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL Architect of the Capitol. office of the architect of the capitol Salaries: For the Architect of the Capitol, Assistant Architect of Architect, assistant, and office personnel.Assistant to act in absence of Architect.*Ante*, p, 1003.the Capitol, and other personal services at rates of pay provided by law; and the Assistant Architect of the Capitol shall act as Architect of the Capitol during the absence or disability of that official or whenever there is no Architect, $48,580. capitol buildings and grounds Capitol buildings and grounds.
Capitol Buildings: For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Maintenance, repairs, etc.Building and electrical substations of the Senate and House Office Buildings, under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, fuel, oil, waste, and appurtenances; furnishings and office equipment; personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of art; purchase or exchange, maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled passenger-carrying office vehicles; pay of superintendent of meters, 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; and not exceeding $300 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books, periodicals, and city directory; $352,555, of which $28,000 shall be immediately available.
Appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol Travel allowances.shall be available for expenses of travel on official business not to exceed in the aggregate under all funds the sum of $5,000. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding Improving grounds.the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; Capitol Power Plant; 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 Snow removal.[R.
S., secs. 3709, 3744, pp. 733, 738](/us/rs/s3709/3744/pp733/738).[U. S. C., pp. 1309, 1310](/us/usc/pp1309/1310).and equipment or under contract without compliance with sections 3709 (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) and 3744 (U. S. C., title 40, sec. 16) of the Revised Statutes; $256,726, of which $158,000 shall be immediately available. For repairs and improvements to House garage, including personal House garage, repairs, etc.services. $1,000. Subway transportation. Capitol and Senate Office Buildings:
For Subway, Capitol to Senate Office Building.Repairs, etc.repairs, rebuilding, and maintenance of the subway cars connecting the Senate Office Building with the Senate wing of the United States 1184Capitol and for personal and other services, including maintenance of the track and electrical equipment connected therewith, $2,000. Senate Office Building.Maintenance, etc. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment and for 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, acting through the Architect of the Capitol who shall be its executive agent, $216,963, of which $9,000 shall be immediately available.
Completion of construction project. Completion of Senate Office Building: To complete the Senate Office Building by the erection of the First Street wing; the architectural treatment of the C Street side; the completion of all approaches to the building as are now incomplete and the landscape treatment of the court, in accordance with the report of the Architect of the Capitol to the United States Senate dated November 29, 1929, with such modifications as the Senate may direct, to be immediately [R.
S., secs. 3709, 3744, pp. 733, 738](/us/rs/s3709/3744/pp733/738).[U. S. C., pp. 1309, 1310](/us/usc/pp1309/1310).available and to remain available until expended, $3,079,350, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the supervision of the Senate Office Building Commission, without compliance with sections 3709 and 3744 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby authorized, within the Open -market contracts.appropriations herein made, to enter into contracts in the open market, to make expenditures for material, supplies, equipment, technical and reference books and instruments, accessories, advertising, personal and other services, traveling expenses and subsistence therefor, and to employ all necessary architectural and engineering Vol. 36, p. 699.[U.
S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).and other assistants without regard to section 35 of the Public Buildings Act, approved June 25, 1910, as amended. Appropriations made hereunder to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Interior Department. Completion of approach to Senate Office Building.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 514. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $500,000 for the completion of the approach to the Senate Office Building at the corner of Delaware Avenue and C Street northeast, in general conformity with other treatments adjoining such building at the main entrance thereto, contained in the Legislative Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, is hereby continued and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1932.
House Office Building.Maintenance. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $198,265, of which $26,000 shall be immediately available. New House Office Building. To continue carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the acquisition of a site and the construction thereon of a fireproof office building or buildings for the House of Vol. 45, p. 1071.*Ante*, pp. 136, 514.Representatives,” approved January 10, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1071), including printing and binding and other miscellaneous expenses, $3,400,000, to remain available until expended.
Capitol power plant.Maintenance. Capitol power plant: For lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, House garage, folding and storage rooms of the Senate, Government Printing Office, and Washington City post office; personal and other services; engineering instruments, 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, $359,450.
Purchases independent of Supply Committee.Vol. 36, p. 531.[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). The appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol may be expended without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 7), concerning purchases for executive departments. 1185 The Government Printing Office, and the Washington City post Reimbursement for current, etc., to designated buildings.office shall reimburse the Capitol power plant for heat, light, and power furnished during the fiscal year 1932 and the amounts so reimbursed shall be covered into the Treasury. library building and grounds Library building and grounds.
Salaries: For chief engineer and all other personal services at Chief engineer and other personnel.*Ante*, p. 1003.Trees, plants, etc.rates of pay provided by law, $46,960. For trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of Library or Congress, $1,500. For necessary expenditures for the Library Building under the Repairs, 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, $94,675.
For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical Furniture, etc.work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, $14,000. To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the care, Additional buildings for Library.maintenance, and repairs for rental or use by the Library of Congress of all buildings or other structures as may be acquired on the site for additional buildings for the Library of Congress in square 761 and part of 760, and to raze such buildings in said area as may be requested Care, etc., of buildings in acquired area.by the Joint Committee on the Library, and to provide for all necessary personal and other services and material of all kinds necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 3 and 4 of an Vol. 45, p. 622.Act entitled “An Act to provide for the acquisition of certain property in the District of Columbia for the Library of Congress, and for other purposes,” approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 622), $10,000.
Toward carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act Library Annex.Construction, equipment, etc.*Ante*, p. 583.to provide for the construction and equipment of an annex to the Library of Congress,” approved June 13, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 583), $1,000,000, to be immediately available; and in addition thereto the Architect of the Capitol is authorized to enter into a contract or Contracts authorized.contracts for such purposes for not to exceed $5,500,000. Bartholdi Fountain:
The appropriation of $5,000 for the fiscal Bartholdi Fountain.Removal.year 1931 for carrying out the provisions of paragraph 3 of section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for enlarging and relocating Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 515.the United States Botanic Garden, and for other purposes,” approved January 5, 1927 (44 Stat., p. 931), is continued available during the fiscal year 1932. Botanic Garden, buildings: To complete carrying out the provisions Botanic Garden.of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of new conservatories and other necessary buildings for the United Vol. 44, p. 1262.States Botanic Gardens,” approved March 1, 1927 (44 Stat., pt. 2, p. 1262), $576,398.
BOTANIC GARDEN Botanic Garden. Salaries: For the director and other personal services, $102,082; Director, and office personnel.*Proviso*.Quarters, etc., allowed Director.all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library: *Provided*, That the quarters, heat, light, fuel, and telephone service heretofore furnished for the director’s use in the Botanic Garden shall not be regarded as a part of his salary or compensation, and such allowances may continue to be so furnished without deduction from his salary or compensation notwithstanding the provisions of Vol. 45, p. 193.[U.
S. C., Supp. IV, p. 30](/us/usc/p30).section 3 of the Act of March 5, 1928 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 678), or any other law. 1186 Repairs and improvements. Repairs and improvements: For procuring manure, soil, tools, 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; disposition of waste; and the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1931 shall be available during the remainder of such fiscal year for disposition of waste; traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the director and his assistants not to exceed $975; street-car fares not exceeding $25; office equipment and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden; exchange, repair, maintenance and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicle, and any passenger vehicle purchased hereunder shall not cost to exceed $2,000, including the value of any vehicle given in exchange; 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; care, maintenance, and purchase of fuel for greenhouses, care and maintenance Poplar Point Nursery.of telephone, electric light, and water system, at the Poplar Point Nursery; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $71,800.
Minor purchases without advertising.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). The sum of $300 may be expended at any one time by the Botanic Garden for the purchase of plants, trees, shrubs, and other nursery stock, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5). Library of Congress. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS salaries Librarian, and personnel. For the Librarian, Chief Assistant Librarian, and other personal services, $834,165.
Register of Copyrights, etc. For the Register of Copyrights, assistant register, and other personal services, $247,940. Legislative Reference Service. legislative reference service Personal services for designated work. To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons 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, $73,990.
Card indexes. distribution of card indexes Distribution service. 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 $56,510 for employees engaged in piecework and work by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian; in all, $170,500. temporary 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. 1187 index to state legislation State legislation. To enable the Librarian of Congress to prepare an index to the Preparing index and digest of.legislation of the several States, together with a supplemental digest of the more important legislation, as authorized and directed by the Act entitled “An Act providing for the preparation of a biennial Vol. 44, p. 1066.[U.
S. C., Supp. IV, p. 10](/us/usc/p10).index to State legislation,” approved February 10, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 2, secs. 164, 165), including personal and other services within and without the District of Columbia (including not to exceed $2,500 for special and temporary service at rates to be fixed by the Librarian), travel, necessary material and apparatus, and for printing and binding the indexes and digests of State legislation for official distribution only, and other printing and binding incident to the work of compilation, stationery, and incidentals, $33,460, and in addition the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1932. index to federal statutes Index to Federal Statutes.
To enable the Librarian of Congress to revise and extend the Revision, etc.index to the Federal Statutes, published in 1908 and known as the Scott and Beaman Index, to include the Acts of Congress down to *Ante*, p. 585.and including the Acts of the Seventieth Congress, and to have the revised index printed at the Government Printing Office, as authorized and directed by the Act approved March 3, 1927, as amended June 14, 1930, $50,000, to be immediately available. sunday opening Sunday opening, etc.
To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference Expenses.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, $18,000. increase of the library Increase of the Library. For purchase of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, Purchase of books, etc.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, including expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian in the interest of collections, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, and all other material for the increase of the Library, by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year 1933, $130,000.
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under Law books, etc.the direction of the Chief Justice, $50,000. For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, Reference books for 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 For miscellaneous printing and binding for the Library of Printing and binding.Congress, including the Copyright Office, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for the Library Building, $207,000. 1188 Completion of volumes designated.Journals of Continental Congress.Records of the Virginia Company.
For the publication
(1)of the remaining unpublished volumes of the Journals of the Continental Congress (volumes 30, 31, 32, and 33); and
(2)the fourth, and final, volume of the Records of the Virginia Company; and
(3)in connection with the Bicentenary of the Birth of George Washington, the rebinding, in full morocco, of Papers of George Washington.the Papers of George Washington, three hundred and two volumes; $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Catalogue of Title Entries. For the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, $55,000. Catalogue cards. For the printing of catalogue cards, $129,400. 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 Attendance at meetings.not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $9,000. Photoduplicating expenses. For paper, chemicals, and miscellaneous supplies necessary for the operation of the photoduplicating machines of the Library and the making of photoduplicate prints, $5,000. Library Building. library building Superintendent, etc. Salaries: For the superintendent, disbursing officer, and other personal services, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $161,422, of which sum $2,000 shall be immediately available. Sunday, etc., opening. For extra services of employees and additional employees under 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, $4,700. Temporary services, care of buildings, etc. For special and temporary services in connection with the custody, 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. Incidental expenses. For mail, delivery, and telephone services, rubber boots, rubber coats, and other special clothing for workmen, uniforms for guards, stationery, miscellaneous supplies, and all other incidental expenses in connection with the custody and maintenance of the Library Building, $7,000. Trust Fund Board. For any expense of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the board, $500. Government Printing Office. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Public printing and binding.Working capital for.Pubic printing and binding: To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the following purposes for the execution of printing, binding, lithographing, mapping, engraving, and other authorized work of the Government Printing Office for the various Public Printer, Deputy, etc.branches of the Government: For salaries of Public Printer, $10,000, and Deputy Public Printer, $7,500; 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 Leaves of absence.Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting holidays and 1189Executive orders granting holidays and half holidays with pay to employees; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting thirty days’ annual leave to employees with pay; rents, fuel, gas, heat, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; Contingent expenses.bicycles, motor-propelled vehicles for the carriage of printing 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, newspapers and magazines, and books of reference (not exceeding $500); adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and Machinery, equipment, etc.other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $300,000); 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 Committee on Printing for the inspection of printing and binding equipment, material, and supplies and Government printing plants in the District 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 Indexes, Congressional Record.Committee on Printing (chief indexer at $3,480, one cataloguer at $3,180, two cataloguers at $2,460 each, and one cataloguer at $2,100); and for all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment Paper, materials, etc.needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work; in all $2,500,000, to which shall be charged the printing and binding Charged to Congress.authorized to be done for Congress, the printing and binding for use of the Government Printing Office, and printing and binding (not exceeding $2,000) for official use of the Architect of the Capitol Architect of the Capitol.when authorized by the Secretary of the Senate; in all to an amount not exceeding this sum. Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing Authority for Congressional work.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. During the fiscal year 1932 any executive department or independent Payment for work ordered by departments, etc.establishment of the Government ordering printing and binding from the Government Printing Office shall pay promptly by check 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 certification in advance of payment: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Adjustment of accounts.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 1190be agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishment Sums paid for work, 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 1933 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 Details to be given if part of other items.other 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 *Proviso*.Engraving and Printing Bureau excepted.the general estimate for printing and binding: *Provided*, That the foregoing requirements 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 Documents. office of superintendent of documents Superintendent, and personnel. For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification *Ante*, p. 1003.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p25).Vol. 43, p. 658.[U. S. C., p. 1417](/us/usc/p1417).Act of 1923, as amended, and compensation of employees paid by the hour who shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office,” approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., *Proviso*.Item a separate unit.title 44, sec. 40), $550,000: *Provided*, That for the purpose of *Post*, p. 1191.conforming to section 3 of this Act this appropriation shall be considered a separate appropriation unit. Contingent expenses. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference; 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 buildings, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $100,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $59,000; for supplying books to depository libraries, $85,000; *Proviso*.Supplying depository libraries restricted.in all, $244,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such libraries, and the requests therefor shall be subject to approval by the Superintendent of Documents. Printing reports of departments, etc., may be discontinued.[U. S. C. p. 1429](/us/usc/p1429). In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1932 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: *Proviso*.Originals to be kept for public inspection.*Provided*, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued 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. 1191 Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriation under Purchases independent of Supply Committee.Vol. 28, p. 601, Vol. 36, p. 531.[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).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 (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 7), concerning purchases for executive departments. Sec. 2. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used Private vehicles restriction.for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. Sec. 3. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, Average salaries in designated offices not to be exceeded.contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, the average of the salaries of the total *Ante*, p. 1003.number of persons under any grade in the Botanic Garden, the [U. S. C., Supp. IV. p. 25](/us/usc/p25).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, as amended, and in grades in which If only one position in a grade.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 position in a grade Advances allowed in unusually meritorious cases.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 service.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, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require No fixed salary reduction.Vol. 42, p. 1490.[U. S. C., p. 66](/us/usc/p66).Transfers to another position without reduction.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)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate Higher salary rates allowed.is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law. Approved, February 20, 1931.