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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 189-JUNE 13, 1945 Furniture: For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000. Furniture: For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, and for the purchase of furniture, $8,000. Inquiries and investigations: For expenses of inquiries and investi- gations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenog- raphers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, $150,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and sub- sistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926, as amended. 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, $35,500. Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $18,000. For materials for folding, $1,500. Fuel, and so forth: For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $2,000. Senate restaurants: For payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with the Act approved September 9, 1942 (Public Law 709, Seventy-seventh Congress), $35,000. Motor vehicles: For maintaning, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $8,760. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $401,762. Packing boxes: For packing boxes, $970. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $350; office of Sergeant at Arms, $150; in all, $500. Air-mail and special-delivery stamps: For air-mail and special- delivery stamps for Senators and the President of the Senate as authorized by law, $10,249.66, and the maximum allowance per capita of $96.66 is increased to $105.66 for the fiscal year 1946 and thereafter. The Committee on Appropriations, authorized by Senate Resolu- tion Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, to employ expert and clerical assistance for the purpose of obtaining and laying factual data and information before the committee for its consideration in the discharge of its functions, hereby is authorized to expend from the contingent fund of the Senate, during the fiscal year 1946, $50,000 in pursuance of the purposes set forth in said resolution: Provided, That whenever any person has left or leaves any civilian position in any department or agency in the executive branch of the Govern- ment in order to accept employment by the Senate Committee on Appropriations, he shall be carried on the rolls of such committee and shall be solely employed by such committee, and responsible only to it; but he shall be entitled upon making application to the Civil Service Commission within thirty days after the termination of his employment by such committee (unless such employment is terminated for cause) to be restored to a position in the same or any other department or agency where an opening exists, comparable to the position which, according to the records of the department or agency which he left to accept employment by the Senate Committee sion, such person would be occupying if he had remained in the employ of such department or agency during the time he was employed by such committee; and such person shall be restored to such position with the same seniorty, status, and pay as if he had 243 Post, p. 605. Per diem and sub- sistence. 44 Stat. 688 5U.S.C.§821; Supp. IV ,, 823. 56 Stat. 750. 40 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 174f-174j. Post, p. 632. Assistance in ob- taining factual data. Appropriations Committee, status of certain employees.
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