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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2U SESS.-CH. 39( -JUNE 8, 1942 Packing boxes: For packing boxes, $3.500, to be available imme- diately: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to furnish a packing box to any Representative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner for any session of Congress unless request therefor has been made not later than thirty days after the sine die adjournment of any such session. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including the sum of $27,500 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 (Public Act 812, Seventy-sixth Congress), the reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually paid out by them for transcribing hearings, and materials for folding, $95,000. Reporting hearings: For stenographic reports of hearings of com- mittees other than special and select committees, $30,000. Special and select committees: For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $150,000. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: For payment of one-half of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation as authorized by law, $30,000. Funeral expenses: No part of the appropriations contained herein for the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives 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 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 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, $140,000. Stationery: For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, for the first session of the Seventy-eighth Congress, and for stationery for the use of the com- mittees and officers of the House (not to exceed $5,000), $92,600. 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, $8,245, of which $2,385 shall be available immediately. Postage stamps: Postmaster, $200; Clerk, $400; Sergeant at Arms, $250; Doorkeeper, $100; in all, $950. The paragraph of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, which authorizes and directs the Clerk of the House of Representa- tives to furnish air mail postage stamps each fiscal year to each Repre- sentative, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, is hereby amended effective July 1, 1942, to read as follows: "Hereafter the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to procure and furnish each fiscal year to each Repre- sentative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, upon request by such person, United States air mail and special deliv- ery postage stamps in an amount not exceeding $50 for the mailing of postal matter arising in connection with his or her official business. Proviso. Payment to Archi- tect of the Capitol. 54 Stat. 1056 . Post, p. 593 Amendment. 55 Stat. 455. 2U.8.C., Bupp.I, 42a. Air mail and special delivery postage stamps. 339

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