July 1, 1937, for the purposes respectively provided in such appropriations and authority. All obligations incurred during the period between June 30, 1937, and the date of the enactment of this Act in anticipation of such appropriations and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with the terms thereof. SEC. 4. This Act may be cited as the "Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1938". Approved, August 9, 1937. Total, Interior Department Appropriation Act-- NOTE. In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1938 carried in the foregoing annual Interior Department Appropriation Act, the following additional amounts are available for such fiscal year: Permanent and indefinite appropriation (pp. 855-857). Grand total, Interior Department. [In addition to the appropriations made in the foregoing Interior Department Appropriation Act, contracts are authorized thereby to be entered into, subject to future appropriations, aggregating $1,250,000. For details, see p. 876.] 1 Includes $175,000 for the fiscal year 1937. 1 $132,732,499.85 LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATION ACT [PUBLIC NO. 94-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 223-1ST SESSION] By the Act making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes, approved May 18, 1937. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, namely: SENATE SALARIES AND MILEAGE OF SENATORS For compensation of Senators_ For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators_. OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT Salaries: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,620; clerk, $2,400; assistant clerks-one $2,280, one $2,160; in all... CHAPLAIN Chaplain of the Senate___ $960,000. 00 51,000.00 11, 460.00 1,680.00 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries: Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $8,000; Chief Clerk, who shall perform the duties of reading clerk, $5,500 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; financial clerk, $5,000 and $2,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant financial clerk, $4,500; Parliamentarian, $5,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; Journal Clerk, $3,780; principal clerk, $3,780; legislative clerk, $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; enrolling clerk, $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; printing clerk, $3,540; chief bookkeeper, $3,600; librarian, $3,360; assistant Journal Clerk, $3,360; executive clerk, $3,180; first assistant librarian, $3,120; keeper of stationery, $3,320; clerks one at $3,180, one at $2,880 and $300 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, three at $2,880 each, two at $2,640 each, clerk in Disbursing Office, in lieu of position created by resolution of May 12, 1932, $2,400, six at $2,400 each, three at $1,860 each, three at $1,740 each; special officer, $2,460; laborers-one at $1,740, one at $1,620, five at $1,380 each, one in Secretary's office, $1,680, one, $1,560; in all[For additional appropriation for 1938, see p. 318.] 136, 880.00 DOCUMENT ROOM Salaries: Superintendent, $3,960; first assistant, $2,640; second assistant, $2,040; four assistants, at $2,040 each; skilled laborer, $1,380; in all_ [For additional appropriation for 1938, see p. 344.] COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Agriculture $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,600; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, 17994-37-11 $18, 180. 00 each. Naval Affairs-clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Patents-clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2.220; additional clerk, $1,800. Pensions-clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; four assistant. clerks at $2,220 each. Post Offices and Post Roads clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; four assistant clerks at $2,220 each; additional clerk, $1,800. Printing-clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Privileges and Electionsclerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Public Buildings and Grounds-clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Public Lands and Surveys-clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Revision of the Laws clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Rules clerk, $3,900 and $200 toward the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual under the direction of the Committee on Rules; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Territories and Insular Affairs-clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks, at $2,220 each; assistant clerk, $2,000; additional clerk, $1,800; in all, $504,060. For authority for increase of $80, see Pub. Res. 45, p. 382). CLERICAL ASSISTANTS TO SENATORS Clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specially provided for herein, as follows: Seventy clerks at $3,000 each; seventy assistant clerks at $2,400 each; and seventy assistant clerks at $2,220 each; such clerks and assistant clerks shall be ex-officio clerks and assistant clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman; seventy additional clerks at $1,800 each, one for each Senator having no more than one clerk and two assistant clerks for himself or for the committee of which he is chairman; messenger, $1,800; in all___. OFFICE OF SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER Salaries: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $8,000; two secretaries (one for the majority and one for the minority), at $5,400 each; two assistant secretaries (one for the majority and one for the minority), at $4,320 each; Deputy Sergeant at Arms and storekeeper, $4,800; clerks-one $3,000, one $2,100, two, at $2,000 each, one $1,800, one to the secretary for the majority, $1,800; one to the secretary of the minority, $1,800, one $1,500; assistant doorkeeper, $2,880; messengers-three (acting as assistant doorkeepers), at $2,400 each; thirty-one (including four for minority), at $1,740 each; four, at $1,620 each; one at card door, $2,640, and $240 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; clerk on journal work for Congressional Record to be selected by the Official Reporters, $3,360; upholsterer and locksmith, $2,400; cabinetmaker, $2,040; three carpenters, at $2,040 each; janitor, $2,400; five skilled laborers, $1,680 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $1,740; three female attendants in charge of ladies' retiring rooms, at $1,500 each; three attendants to women's toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $1,500 each; telephone operators-chief, $2,460 and $280 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; fourteen, at $1,560 each; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $1,200; press gallery-superintendent, $3,660; assistant superintendent, $2,520; messengers for service to press correspondents-one, $2,160; three at $1,440 each; laborers-three, at $1,380 each; thirty at $1,260 each; three, at $480 each; special $504,060.00 724,200.00 employees-seven, at $1,000 each; twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $4 per day each, during the session, $15,204; in all.. [For additional appropriation for 1938, see p. 344.] Police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms: Lieutenant, $1,740; special officer, $1,740; thirty-one privates at $1,620; in all___ POST OFFICE Salaries: Postmaster, $3,600; assistant postmaster, $2,880; chief clerk, $2,460; wagon master, $2,280; twenty-six mail carriers, at $1,620 each; in all. FOLDING ROOM Salaries: Foreman, $2,460; assistant, $2,160; clerk, $1,740; folders-chief, $2,040, fourteen at $1,440 each; in all.. The provisions of the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 are hereby amended so as to correspond with the changes made by this Act in the designations and rates of salary of certain positions under the Senate. $261, 104. 00 53, 700.00 53, 340.00 28, 560,00 CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President__ For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments... For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furnitureFor expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, $150,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926, as amended. For payment of one-half of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation as authorized by law For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand. For materials for folding For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor.. For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $35,000: Provided, That said Committee on Rules is hereby authorized and directed hereafter to add a minimum of 10 per centum to each order in excess of 10 cents served in the said restaurants and 20 per centum to all orders served outside of said restaurants, and the proceeds accruing therefrom shall be placed in a fund to be used in the payment of any deficit incurred in the management of such kitchens and restaurants---[For additional appropriation for 1938, see p. 344.] For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms_ For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor-- 4,000.00 60, 340. 00 2,000.00 150, 000, 00 29,000.00 18,000.00 1,500,00 2,000.00 35,000.00 7,960,00 200,000.00 |