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59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-C 189--JUNE 13, 1945 shall be used to defray the expenses of any committee consisting of more than six persons (not more than four from the House and not more than two from the Senate), nor to defray the expenses of any other person except the Sergeant at Arms of the House or a repre- sentatlve 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 is a Representative, a Delegate from a Territory, or a Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico. Telegraph and telephone: For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, $200,000. Stationery: For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, for the second session of the Seventy-ninth Congress, and for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House (not to exceed $6,000), $93,600. Attending physician's office: For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses of the emergency room and for the attending physician and his assistants, including an allowance of $1,500 to be paid to the attending physician in equal monthly installments as authorized by the Act approved June 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 629), and including an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month each to four assistants as provided by the House resolutions adopted July 1, 1930, January 20, 1932, and November 18, 1940, $6,985. Postage stamps: Postmaster, $200; Clerk, $400; Sergeant at Arms, $250; Doorkeeper, $100; in all, $950. To enable the Clerk of the House to procure and furnish each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, United States air mail and special delivery postage stamps as authorized by law, $32,850; and the maximum allowance per capita is increased by $25 for the fiscal year 1946 and thereafter. Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand or for the employment of personnel at a rate not to exceed $5.20 per day per person, $30,000. Revision of laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by the Act approved May 29, 1928 (1 U. S . C. 59), $8,000, to be expended under the direction of the Committee on Revision of the Laws. The unexpended balance of the appropriation "For preliminary work in connection with the preparation of a new edition of the United States Code, including the correction of errors as authorized by the Act approved March 2, 1929", contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1944, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1946. For preparing and editing a new edition of the Code of Laws of the United States of America as authorized and directed by law (U. S . C ., title 1, ch. III), to remain available until expended, $150,000. Clerk's office, special assistance: For assistants in compiling lists of reports to be made to Congress by public officials; compiling copy and revising proofs for the House portion of the Official Register; preparing and indexing the statistical reports of the Clerk of the House; compiling the telephone and Members' directories; preparing and indexing the daily calendars of business; preparing the official statement of Members' voting records; preparing lists of congres- sional nominees and statistical summary of elections; preparing and indexing questions of order printed in the Appendix to the Journal pursuant to House rule IIl; for recording and filing statements of olitical committees and candidates for election to the House of Representatives pursuant to the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, 1925 (2 U. S. C. 241 -256); and for such other assistance as the Clerk of Pot, p. 633. Pot, p. 633. Air mail and spe- cial delivery stamps. 45 Stat. 1008. New edition ofU. 8 . Code. 45 Btat. 1540. IU..C. . 51a t 57 Stat. 230. 43 Stat. 1070 . 2U.S.C.,Bpp. IV,I m.