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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 780-OCT. 9, 1940 For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for the Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Build- ing, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate, under the supervision of the Com- mittee on Rules, United States Senate, $15,000. No part of any appropriation made for the contingent expenses of the Senate shall be used to defray the expenses of any person except the members of any congressional committee, the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate or a representative of his office, and except the widow or minor children or both of the deceased, to attend the funeral rites and burial of any person who at the time of his or her death was a Senator of the United States. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For payment to the widow of William B. Bankhead, late a Repre- sentative from the State of Alabama, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Willis Benjamin Gibbs, late a Representative from the State of Georgia, $10,000. For payment, in equal increments to each, to the sons and the daughter of George N. Seger, late a Representative from the State of New Jersey, $10,000. The three foregoing sums to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. Contested-election expenses: For payment to Estes Kefauver, con- testee, for expenses incurred in the contested-election case of Neal versus Kefauver, as audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered 1, $360.07. For payment to Albert F. Swanson, contestant, for expenses incurred in the contested-election case of Swanson versus Harrington, as audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Num- bered Three, $2,000. The foregoing sums for contested-election expenses to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL Senate Office Building: For painting the Senate Cabinet Shop, located in the Senate Office Building, under the Office of the Ser- geant at Arms, $1,400. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Books for the adult blind: For an additional sum required to enable the Librarian of Congress to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind," approved March 3, 1931 (2 U. S. C. 135a), as amended, $25,000. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE The Superintendent of Documents is hereby authorized to deliver to the Librarian of Congress, from the sales stock in the Government Printing Office, two hundred and fifty sets of The Writings of George Washington, as published by the Bicentennial Commission, for distri- bution through international exchange and for such other distribution for the use of foreign governments as may be deemed appropriate. INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS BENJAMIN HARRISON MEMORIAL COMMISSION The appropriation of $2,500 for the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Commission, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, approved April 6,1940 (Public Act Numbered 447, Seventy-sixth 1031 Kitchens and res- taurants. Ante, p. 466 . Funeral expenses. William B. Bank- head. Payment to widow. Willis Benjamin Gibbs. Payment to widow. George N. Seger. Payment to sons and daughter. Contested-election expenses. Senate Cabinet Shop. Ante, p. 473. Books for adult blind. Ante, p. 476 . 46 Stat. 1487. 2U. . C.Ci. 13., 135b: Supp. V, i 135a. The Writings of George Washington. Distribu: ion. Eeapproprlation. Ante, p. 83 .