75
STAT.]
PUBLIC LAW 87-130-AUG. 10, 1961 SENATE
323
RESTAURANTS
For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Buildings, including personal and other services, to be expended under the supervision of the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, $85,000. MAIL
TRANSPORTATION
For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $16,560. MISCELLANEOUS
ITEMS
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $2,008,345. POSTAGE S T A M P S
For postage stamps for the offices of the Secretaries for the Majority and Minority, $140; and for airmail and special-delivery stamps for office of the Secretary, $160; office of the Sergeant at Arms, $125; Senators and the President of the Senate, as authorized by law, $55,550; in all, $55,975. STATIONERY
(REVOLVING
FUND)
For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, $181,800; and for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $13,200; in all, $195,000, to remain available until expended. COMMUNICATIONS
For an amount for communications which may be expended interchangeably for payment, in accordance with such limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration, of charges on official telegrams and long-distance telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the President of the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those authorized by the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 392; 2 U.S.C. 46c, 46d, 46e), as amended, and the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U.S.C. 46d-l), o 7o Stat. aeo; 72 $15,150. ADMINISTRATIVE
PROVISIONS
The second proviso in the paragraph relating to the authority of Senators to rearrange the basic salaries of employees in their respective offices, which appears in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947, as amended (2 U.S.C. 60f) is amended to read as follows: '•'•Provided further, That no salary shall be fixed in a Senator's office under this section at a basic rate of more than $5,100 per annum, except that (1) the salary of one employee may be fixed at a basic rate of not more than $6,540 per annum, (2) the salary of one employee may be fixed at a basic rate of not more than $8,040 per annum, (3) the salary of one employee may be fixed at a basic rate of not more that $8,460 per annum, and (4) the salary of one employee may be fixed at a basic rate of not more than $8,880 per annum." The contingent fund of the Senate is hereafter made available for the payment of mileage, to be computed at 10 cents per mile by the nearest usual route, between Washington, District of Cohmibia, and a point in the home State of the Senator involved, for UK.,. to exceed
73 Stat. 443.
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