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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 238, 239-JUNE 23, 1949 SEC. 2. In the case of any Member of the House of Representatives other than the Speaker, the majority leader, the minority leader, the majority whip, and the minority whip, the aggregate amount of the charges which may be so paid from the contingent fund for any fiscal year shall not exceed $500. SEC. 3. After June 30, 1949, no telegrams shall be charged to the official business of the House of Representatives by any Member. SEC. 4. Effective July 1, 1949, the clerk hire of each Member of the House of Representatives shall be at the rate of $12,500 per annum. No person shall receive basic compensation from such clerk hire at a rate in excess of $5,000 per annum. SEC. 5. The last sentence of section 501 of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "now" the words "or hereafter". SEC. 6. As used in this Act, (a) the term "Member" or "Member of the House of Representatives" includes a Representative in Congress, a Delegate from a Territory, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and (b) the term "State" includes the several States, the Territories, and Puerto Rico. Approved June 23, 1949. [CHAPTER 239] AN ACT Authorizing the transfer to the United States section, International Boundary and Water Commission, by the War Assets Administration of a portion of Fort Brown at Brownsville, Texas, and adjacent borrow area, without exchange of funds or reimbursement. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States section, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, is hereby authorized to accept by transfer without reimbursement or exchange of funds, and to assume permanent custody and control over, in connection with the lower Rio Grande flood- control project under the jurisdiction of said United States section, that portion of Fort Brown at Brownsville, Texas, and adjacent borrow area, described as follows: Tract 1, Fort Brown.-A tract containing two hundred and forty-one and six one-hundredths acres in the Espiritu Santo grant in Cameron County, Texas, out of and a part of the Fort Brown mili- tary reservation as shown on map recorded in volume 8, page 23, of the map records of Cameron County, Texas. Tract 2, Borrow Area.- A tract containing seventeen and four- tenths acres in share numbered 19 of the Espiritu Santo grant, Cam- eron County, Texas, conveyed to the United States of America by deed from Carrie M. Combe, individually and as independent execu- trix of the estate of Frederick J. Combe, deceased, recorded in volume 322, page 352, of the deed records of Cameron County, Texas; both of said tracts being shown on drawing numbered 4311-RC-12, San Benito, Texas, January 15, 1947, of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, United States section, designated "Flood Control Project-Lower Rio Grande, Texas-Fort Brown Military Reservation", and on field notes attached thereto, which drawing and field notes are on file with said United States section and with the War Assets Administration, said property having hereto- fore been declared surplus to the War Assets Administration; and the War Assets Administration, or other Federal agency in responsible charge, is authorized and directed to transfer said property to the said United States section without reimbursement or exchange of funds. 265 Limitation on amount paid from contingent fund. Clerk hire. 59 Stat. 301. 5U. .C.§931. Definitions. June 23, 1949 [H. R. 1338] [Public Law 122] International Bound- ary and Water Com- mission, U. S. section. Transfer of land at Brownsville, Texas.

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