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PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifteenth day of April, 1929, and was adjourned without day on Friday, the twenty-second day of November, 1929 . HERBERT HOOVER, President ; CHARLES CURTIS, Vice President ; GEORGE H. M OSES, President of the Senate pro tempore ; NICHOLAS LONG WORTH, S pea ker of the House of Representatives . April 26, 1929. CHAP . 1 .-An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses of the legis- [H . R . 1412 .1 lative branch incident to the first session of the Seventy-first Congress .

[Public, No . 1 .1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Appropriations for the sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- first session, Seventy- wise appropriated, to defray certain expenses incident to the first firs t Cong ress . session of the Seventy-first Congress, namely SENATE

Senate . For mileage of Senators, $51,000 . For twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $3 .30 eac h per day from Ap ril 15, 1929, un til the end of t he first session of the Seventy-first Congress, such amount as may be necessary . For equipment and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, restaurants .

and 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 REPRESENTATIVES To pay the wido w of R oyal H . Weller, late a Representative from the State of New York, $10,000. To pay the widow of Charles W. Roark, late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, $10,000 . For the benefit of Robert C . Martin, minor son of Whitmell P. 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 sh all be disbursed by the Ser gea nt at Arms of the House . For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses Resident Commissioners, $175,000 . For stationery for Members and Delegates and Resident Com- missioners, at $125 each, $55,000 . For forty-o ne pages, includ ing ten pages for duty at the ent rances 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 . 57894°-31-1 1 Mileage. Pages. Post, p.34. House of Representa- tives . Royal H. Weller. Pay to widow . Charles W. Roark. Pay to widow . Whitmell P . Martin. Pay to minor son . Of Milea ge . Stationery . Pages . Post, p. 45 .