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PUBLIC LAW 470-JULY 2, 1954
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including $400,000 for the Committee on Appropriations, to be available also for the purposes mentioned in Senate Resolution Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, and Public Law 20, Eightieth Con- ei Stat. is. gress, $1,224,120: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses (as defined in the Travel Expense Act of 1949) at rates in excess of $9 per day except f^rec^'sas^note that higher rates may be established by the Committee on Rules and Administration in the case of travel beyond the limits of the continental United States. Folding documents: For the employment of personnel for folding speeches and pamphlets at a gross rate of not exceeding $1.50 per hour per person, $27,000. Materials for folding: For materials for folding, $1,500. Fuel and so forth: For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $2,000. Senate 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 under the supervision of the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, $55,000. Motor vehicles: For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $9,560. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $981,087. Packing boxes: For packing boxes, $3,000. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $500; office of Sergeant at Arms, $225; offices of the secretaries for the majority and the minority, $100; in all, $825. Airmail and special-delivery stamps: For airmail and specialdelivery stamps for Senators and the President of the Senate, as authorized by law, $19,400, and the maximum allowance per capita of $132.07 is increased to $200 for the fiscal year 1955 and thereafter. Stationery: For stationery for Senators and for the President of the Senate, including $10,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $126,400. Communications: For an amount for communications which may be expended interchangeably for payment, in accordance with such limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration, of charges on official telegrams and longdistance telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the President of the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those authorized by the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 392; 2 U.S.C. 46c, 46d, 46e), the First Deficiencv Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U.S.C. 4 6 d - l), Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, Public Law 254, Eighty-second ^s Stat.' 760. Congress, and Public Law 178, Eighty-third Congress, $14,550. f^usc *46c!* 46d The Sergeant at Arms is authorized and directed to secure suitable and notes, office space in post office or other Federal buildings in the State of each Senator for the use of such Senator and in the city to be designated by liim: Provided, That in the event suitable space is not available in such buildings and a Senator leases or rents office space elsewhere, the Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the contingent fund of the Senate, vouchers covering bona fide statements of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum for each Senator. The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate is authorized and directed to approve for payment from the contingent fund of the Senate to each Senator an amount not to exceed $150 quarterly, upon certification of each such Senator, for official office expenses incurred in his State.
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