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68 Stat. 399.

68 Stat. 40 2.

46 Stat. 468. 5 USC 691 note.

65 Stat. 614. 12 USC 1138f. eentral Bank for eooperatives, etc.

Veterans Administration.

63 Stat. 764. 65 Stat. 614.

65 Stat. 615. Foreign Service. 60 Stat. 1003; 65 Uat. 615. 22 tree 867, 870.

Rates by administrative action. 64 Stat. 765.

PUBLIC LAW 9 4 - J U N E 28, 1955

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in the paragraph designated "Folding documents" under the heading "CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE" in the Legislative Appropriation Act, 1955, or in any subsequent appropriation Act, but the limitations contained in such paragraph are hereby increased by 7.5 per centum. (2) The limitations in the paragraph designated "Folding documents" under the heading "CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE" in the Legislative Appropriation Act, 1955, or in any subsequent appropriation Act, are hereby increased by 7.5 per centum. (h) The official reporters of proceedings and debates of the Senate and their employees shall be considered to be officers or employees in or under the legislative branch of the Government within the meaning of subsection (a) and the provisions of law referred to in such subsection. (i) The additional compensation provided by subsection (a) and the provisions of law referred to in such subsection shall be considered a part of basic compensation for the purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended. (j) Except as provided in subsection (d)(3)(C) of this section, no officer or employee shall be paid increased or additional compensation under this section for any period prior to July 1, 1955, at a rate in excess of 7.5 per centum of the aggregate rate of his basic compensation and additional compensation under the x\.cts referred to in subsection (a), computed without regard to the amendment made by subsection (b). SEC. 5. Section 66 of the Farm Credit Act of 1933 (48 Stat. 269) is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 66. No director, officer, or employee of the Central Bank for Cooperatives or of any production credit corporation, production credit association, or bank for cooperatives shall be paid compensation at a rate in excess of $14,620 per annum." SEC. 6. (a) Each of the minimum rates of salary contained in section 3(d), the maximum rate of salary contained in the second sentence of such section 3(d), and each of the maximum and minimum rates of salary contained in section 7, of the Act of January 3, 1946 (Public Law 293, Seventy-ninth Congress), as amended (38 U.S.C. sees. 15b (d) and 15f (a)), are hereby increased by 7.5 per centum. (b) Each of the rates of salary contained in section 3(e) and section 3(f) of such Act of January 3, 1946, as amended (38 U.S.C. secs. 15b (e) and (f)), is hereby increased by 7.5 per centum. (c) Each of the rates of salary increased by subsections (a) and (b) of this section which is not a multiple of $5 shall be rounded, as so increased, to the next higher $5 per annum. (d) Section 8(d) of such Act of January 3, 1946, as amended (38 U.S.C. sec. 15g (d)), is amended by striking out "$12,800" and inserting in lieu thereof "$13,760". SEC. 7. Each of the rates of basic compensation provided by sections 412 and 415 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, is hereby increased by 7.5 per centum. Each such rate as so increased which is not a multiple of $5 shall be rounded to the next higher $5 per annum. SEC. 8. (a) Notwithstanding section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. sec. 665), the rates of compensation of officers and employees of the Federal Government and of the municipal government of the District of Columbia whose rates of compensation are fixed by administrative action pursuant to law and are not otherwise increased by this Act are hereby authorized to be increased, effective on or after the first day of the first pay period which began

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