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80TH CONG., 2D SESS.- JUNE 18, 19, 20, 1948 the protection of their civil rights, all with due regard to the estab- lished customs of such peoples. SEC. 4. For the purposes of this concurrent resolution, the com- mittee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such times and places during the sessions, recesses, and adjourned periods of the Eightieth Congress, to employ such consultants, specialists, clerks, and other assistants, to travel, and authorize its assistants to travel, freely through such areas and such other places, to utilize such transportation, housing, and other facilities as the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Air Force may make available, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such corre- spondence, books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advis- able. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $50,000, shall be paid one-half from the contingent fund of the Senate and one-half from the contin- gent fund of the House of Representatives, upon vouchers approved by the chairman or vice chairman. Disbursements to pay such expenses shall be made by the Secretary of the Senate out of the contingent fund of the Senate, such contingent fund to be reimbursed from the contin- gent fund of the House of Representatives in the amount of one-half of disbursements so made. Passed June 18, 1948. COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That there be printed six thousand additional copies of the report (House Report Numbered 1920) on the Communist Party of the United States as an Advocate of Overthrow of Government by Force and Violence, of which five thousand copies shall be for the use of the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representa- tives and one thousand copies shall be for the House document room. Passed June 19, 1948. UNITED STATES BOARD OF PAROLE Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That, in accordance with paragraph 3 of section 2 of the Printing Act, approved March 1, 1907, the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to have printed for its use two thousand five hundred copies of the hearings held before a special subcommittee of said committee during current Congress, relative to investigation as to the manner in which the United States Board of Parole is operat- ing and as to whether there is a necessity for a change in either the procedure or basic law. Passed June 19, 1948. ADJOURNMENT Resolved by the House of Representatives (te Senate concrring), That when the two Houses adjourn on Sunday, June 20, 1948, they Hearings. Employment of con- sultants, etc. Witnesses. Expenses. June 19, 1948 [H. Con. Res. 199] Printing of addi- tional copies of House report. June 19, 1948 [H. Con. Res. 213] Printing of hearings of special subcom- mittee. 34 Stat. 1012 . 44 U.S.C. 154 . June 20, 1948 [H. Con. Res. 218] 62 STAT.] 1435