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PUBLIC LAW 89-90-JULY 27, 1965

L79 STAT.

$90,400, and the maximum allowance per capita of $610 is increased to $800 for the fiscal year 1966 and thereafter: Provided, That Senators from States partially or wholly west of the Mississippi River shall be allowed an additional $200 each fiscal year; in all, $90,825. STATIONERY (REVOLVING F U N D)

For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, $242,400; and for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $13,200; in all, $255,600, to remain available until expended. COMMrNICATTON 8

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For an amount for communications which may be expended interchangeably for payment, in accordance with such limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration, of charges on official telegrams and long-distance telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the President of the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those authorized by the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 392; 2 U.S.C. 46c, 46d, 46e), as amended, and the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77: 2 T\S.O. 4 6 d - l), $15,150. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISK^NS

Long-distance telephone c a l l s. 77 Stat. 8 6 3.

68 Stat. 400; 72 Stat. 442.

Effective July 1, 1965, the paragraph relating to official long-distance telephone calls to and from "Washington, T)istrict of Columbia, under the heading "Contingent Expenses of the Senate" in Public Law 479, Seventy-ninth Congress, as amended (2 U.S.C. 46c), is amended to read as follows: "There shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, toll charges on not to exceed twenty-four hundred strictly official long-distance telephone calls to and from Washington, District of (\>lumbia, aggregating not more than twelve thousand minutes each fiscal year for each Senator and the Vice Pi'esident of the Ignited States: Frocided^ That not more than twelve hundred calls aggregating not more than six thousand minutes made in the first six months of each fiscal year shall be paid for under this sentence. The toll charges on an additional twelve Imndred such calls aggregating not more than six thousand minutes each fiscal year for each Senator from any State having a population of ten million or more inhabitants shall also be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate: Provided, That not more than six hundred calls aggregating not more than three thousand minutes made in the first six months of eachfisc^alyear shall be paid for under this sentence." Effective July 1, 1965, the paragraph relating to payment of toll charges on official long-distance telephone calls, originating and terminating outside of Washington, District of Columbia, under the heading "Contingent Expenses of the Senate" in Public Law 479, Seventyninth Congress, as amended (2 LT.S.C. 46d), is amended by striking out "$1,800" where it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "$2,200". Any Senator niay have the Sergeant at Arms compute his total maximum long-distance telephone allowance. The( minutes and calls allowance shall be computed on a formula at the maximimi rate with all calls considered as being person-to-person from Washington, Dis-

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