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such department, establishment, bureau, or office as may be requisitioned; but proper adjustments on the basis of the actual costs of the materials, supplies or equipment furnished or work or services performed, paid for in advance, shall be made as may be agreed upon by the departments, establishments, bureaus, or offices concerned. Orders placed as provided in this subsection shall be considered as obligations upon appropriations in the same manner as orders or contracts placed with private contractors. " (k) To authorize any department, office, or agency of the District a gOrderss.from D. C. encie of Columbia government, when it is determined to be in the best interest of the District of Columbia so to do, to place orders with any other department, office, or agency of the District for materials, supplies, equipment, work, or services of any kind that such requisitioned department, office, or agency may be in a position to supply or equipped to render. The department, office, or agency placing any such orders shall either advance, subject to proper amustment on the basis of actual cost, or reimburse, such department, office, or agency the actual cost of materials, supplies, or equipment furnished or work or services performed as determined by such department, office, or agency as may be requisitioned. Orders placed as provided in this subsection shall be considered as obligations upon appropriations in the same manner as orders or contracts placed with private contractors." De1e g SEC. 2. The Commissioners are authorized to delegate any of the authority. e t i on of functions to be performed by them under the authority of this Act to any officer or employee of the District of Columbia. Repeal. SKC. 3. The second paragraph under the caption "DISTRICT or COLUMBIA" of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes", approved February 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 202, 208), as amended (title 49, sec. 110, D. C. Code, 1951 edition), is hereby repealed. Approved July 2, 1958.
Public Law 85-492 AN ACT To authorize the Clerk of the House of Representatives to withhold certain amounts due employees of the House of Representatives.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever an employee of the House of Representatives becomes indebted to the House of Representatives, or to the trust fund account in the office of the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, and such employee niils to pay such indebtedness, the chairman of the committee, or the elected officer, of the House of Representatives having jurisdiction of the activity under which such indebtedness arose, is authorized to certify to the Clerk of the House of Representatives the amount of such indebtedness. The Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized to withhold the amount so certified from any amount which is disbursed by him and which is due to, or on behalf of, such employee. Whenever an amount is withheld under this Act, the appropriate account shall be credited in an amount equal to the amount so withheld. As used in this Act, the term "employee of the House of Representatives" means any person in the legislative branch of the Government whose salary, wages, or other compensation is disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Approved July 2, 1958.
July 2, 1958 CH.R. 1.21 2521]
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