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67 Stat. 439. Bonds and sureties.

^propriations. Short title.

PUBLIC LAW 6 2 5 - J U N E 29, 1956

Alaska. Walruses.

STAT.

mittees of the House of Representatives shall be transferred to the House Studio. (4) A sufficient reserve shall be set aside from the Joint Senate and House Recording Facility Revolving Fund to liquidate any outstanding accounts payable. (5) After appropriate adjustments for the value of assets assigned or transferred to the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, the balance in the Joint Senate and House Recording Facility Revolving Fund shall be distributed equally to the Senate and House of Representatives for deposit to the respective revolving funds authorized by this section. (j) Pending acquisition of the stock, supplies, materials, and equipment necessary to properly equip both studios, the present services and facilities shall be made available to both studios in order that each studio may carry out its duty. (k) No person shall be an officer or employee of the House or Senate Recording Studio while he is engaged in any other business, profession, occupation, or employment which involves the performance of duties which are similar to those which would be performed by him as such an officer or employee of such studio unless approved in writing by the committee in the case of the House Recording Studio Jind the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration in the case of the Senate Recording Studio. (1) The Joint Recording Facility positions and salaries established pursuant to the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1948, and all subsequent Acts are hereby abolished. (m) Effective with the completion of the transfer provided for by subsection (i) hereof the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution establishing in the Treasury of the United States a revolving fund within the contingent fund of the House of Representatives", approved August 7, 1953 (2 U.S.C. sec. 123), is repealed. (n) The Director of the House Recording Studio shall give bond to the Clerk of the House of Representatives with one or more sureties in the penal sum of $20,000, with condition for the faithful performance of his duties and the preservation and security of all property in his care. The Director of the Senate Recording Studio shall give bond to the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate with one or more sureties in the penal sum of $20,000, with condition for the faithful performance of his duties and the preservation and security of all property in his care. (o) Such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section are hereby authorized to be appropriated. SEC. 106. This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch x\ppropriation Act, 1957". Approved June 27, 1956. Public Law 625

June 29, 1956 [S. 3778]

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CHAPTER 460

AN ACT To amend the Act for the protection of walruses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act of August 18, 1941 (ch. 368, 55 Stat. 632; 48 U.S.C. 248), is amended by changing the colon at the end of the first proviso to a comma and by inserting thereafter: "and said skins or hides may be exported from the Territory subject to such limitations on numbers and sizes of skins or hides exported as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe for the purpose of protecting and conserving the walrus herds:".

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