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PUBLIC LAW 92-51-JULY 9, 1971 MISCELLANEOUS
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ITEMS
For miscellaneous items, $5,356,972, including $497,000 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with Section 4 of Public I ^ w 87-82, approved July 6, 1961: Provided, That nothing herein shall prohibit the free transfer between the telephone and telegraph accounts at any time. POSTAGE
STAMPS
For postage stamps for the Offices of the Secretaries for the Majority and Minority, $320; and for air mail and special delivery stamps for the Office of the Secretary, $410; Office of the Sergeant at Arms, $240; Comptroller, $100; Senators and the President of the Senate, as authorized by law, $137,355: Provided, That the maximum allowance per capita of $1,056 is increased to $1,215 for the fiscal year 1972 and thereafter: Provided further, That Senators from States partially or wholly west of the Mississippi River shall be allowed an additional $305 each fiscal year; in all, $138,425. STATIONERY
(REVOLVING
FUND)
For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, $368,400; and for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $15,200; in all, $383,600: Provided, That, effective with the fiscal year 1972 and thereafter, the allowance for stationery for each Senator from States having a population of ten million or more inhabitants shall be at the rate of $4,000 per annum. ADMINISTRATIVE
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PROVISIONS
Effective July 1, 1971, the third paragraph under the heading "'Administrative Provisions" in the appropriations for the Senate in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1959, as amended (2 U.S.C. 43b), is amended by striking out that first portion thereof, down through "fiscal year, and the", and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The contingent fund of the Senate is hereby made available for reimbursement of actual transportation expenses incurred by each Senator in traveling on official business, and such expenses incurred by employees in that Senator's office in making round trips on official business, by the nearest usual route, between Washington, District of Columbia, and the home State of the Senator involved, or within that State during such travel. The total amount of such expenses for which each Senator and the employees in his office may be reimbursed in any fiscal year shall not exceed a sum equal to forty times (in the case of a Senator from a State having a population of less than ten million inhabitants), or forty-four times (in the case of Senator from a State having a population of ten million or more inhabitants), fourteen cents per mile for the number of miles certified by the Senator as the distance between Washington, District of Columbia, and the place of his residence in his home State, if such distance is less than 375 miles; thirteen cents per mile, if such certified distance is 375 miles or more but less than 750 miles; twelve cents per mile, if such certified distance is 750 miles or more but less than 1,000 miles; eleven cents per mile, if such certified distance is 1,000 miles or more but less than 1,750 miles; ten cents per mile, if such certified distance is 1,750 miles or more but less than 2,250 miles; nine cents per mile, if such certified distance is 2,250 miles or more but less than 2,500 miles; eight cents per mile, if such certified distance is 2,500 miles or more but less than
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