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 PUBLIC LAW 624-JUNE 27, 1956

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COPYRIGHT OFFICE

Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, including publication of the decisions of the United States courts involving copyrights, $1,287,547. LEGISLATIVJ: REFERENCE SERVICE

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, 2°us1r lie"and ^s amended (2 U.S.C. 166), $1,067,387: Provided, That no part of note. this appropriation may be used to pay any salary or expense m connection with any publication, or preparation of material therefor (except the Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued by the Library of Congress unless such publication has obtained prior approval of either the Committee on House Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.

DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the preparation and distribution of catalog cards and other publications of the Library, $1,487,100. INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

General increase of the L i b r a r y: For expenses (except personal services) necessary for acquisition of books, periodicals and newspapers, and all other material for the increase of the Library, $300,000, to continue available during the next succeeding fiscal year. Increase of the law library: For expenses (except personal services) necessary for acquisition of books, legal periodicals, and all other material for the increase of the law library, $90,000, to continue available during the next succeeding fiscal year. Books for the Supreme Court: For the purchase of books and periodicals for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the Librarian of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $27,500. BOOKS FOR THE B L I N D

46 Stat. 1487.

For salaries and other expenses necessary^ to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the blind", approved March 3, 1931 (2 U.S.C. 135a), as amended, $1,067,481. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

60 Stat. 810.

Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress for salaries shall be available for expenses of investigating the loyalty of Library employees; special and temporary services (including employees engaged by the day or hour or in piecework); and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C.55a). Not to exceed ten positions in the Library of Congress may be exempt from the provisions of appropriation Acts concerning the employment of aliens during the current fiscal year, but the Librarian shall not make any appointment to any such position until he has ascertained that he cannot secure for such appointments a person in any of the categories specified in such provisions who possesses the special qualifications for the particular position and also otherwise

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