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 1394 F IFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2919. 1907. ¥~¤¤¤·¤v<=- — LEGISLATIVE. P,Q°gg’°¤*°¤¤l °m· To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Ekné months pay. Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and seven, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and House, and W. A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensa- _ tion then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available. d0T§,°§§‘§u,t§§,?““” The Committee on Printing of the Senate, with three members of W°*k °°¤*i¤¤¤d· the present House of Representatives who are reelected to the next Congress, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representvol S30? M gtives, sliall consttitutecz commission to tggntindue zh1e work of thi; ' ’ { ,,-' _ rintin nvesti ion mmission a in un er e provisions 0 Mm uq uy an Actgapprovedu March third, ninelzlddii hundred and five, and shall have power to inquire into the general subject of the public printing and binding for Congress and the various Executive Departments, bureaus, boards, and other offices of the Government and the distribution of public documents; and to inquire concerning the accumulations, if any, of Government ublications stored in warehouses and public buildings for which no liegal method of distribution now exists and the rental of buildings, if any, now occupied for the storage of such ¤°P°¤¤- accumulated documents; and to re rt from time to time uring the Sixtieth Congress such remedial idogislation as the Commission may deem proper; and to continue the mquiry into the necessity for.tl1e continuance of the various branch printing offices and other offices maintained by the various Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, and to report the economies, if _ _ any, which would be effected in the consolidation of such offices with ,,,,°QE"°“1·°”"“““f the Government Printing Office;' and to employ a secretary and such clerical assistance as may he necessary, such employees to be paid such compensation as said Commission may deem just and reasonable; and said Commission is authorized to send for persons, books. papers, or documents, and through its chairman or acting chairman. or the chairman of any subcommittee thereof, to administer oaths, examine witnesses, books, papers. or documents respecting all matters pertaining to the duties of said Commission; said Commission to sit. if necessary, ‘“""`°"l‘°°“‘ during the recesses of Congress; and the sum of twelve thousand dol- . lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro riated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: to be paid out by the disbursing officer of the Senate on vouchers approved ¤b{gj¤¢d*•*¤lY ¤'¤¤· y the chairman, or acting chairman, of the said Commission. Said appropriation shall be immediately available. dg22mm"" km 0 efray the expenses of the members of the joint committee of coiégpftljgfs gl 18;*; the Senate and House authorized to attend and represent the Congress gms of the United States on the occasion of the forma opening ceremonies "°*‘·P·”“°· of the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition to be held at Norfolk, Virginia, April twenty-sixth, nineteen undred and seven., seven thou- Di¤¤'*¤¤¤°¤· san dollars, or so much thereof as mav be necessary, of which sum three thousand dollars shall beaccredited to the Senate, to beexpended under the direction and b the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and four thousand, dollars accredited to the account of and expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant·at- Arms of the House of Representatives upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contin ent Expenses of the Senate and by the Committee on Accounts of the Ilouse, respectively. S°““*°‘ smears. S§,‘,{2,’.Q‘?"““"°“ °’ For compensation of Senators, seventy-five thousand dollars. The mretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed to pay