ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL Office of the Architect of the Capitol Salaries: For the Architect of the Capitol, Assistant Architect of the Capitol, Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant, and other personal services at rates of pay provided by law; and the Assistant Architect of the Capitol shall act as Architect of the Capitol during the absence or disability of that official or whenever there is no Architect, and, in case of the absence or disability of the Assistant Architect, the Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant shall so act; $144,000. Appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol shall lie available for expenses of travel on official business not to exceed in the aggregate under all funds the sum of $3,000. Capitol Buildings and Grounds Capitol Buildings: For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Building and electrical substations of the Senate and House Office Buildings, under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, fuel, oil, waste, and appurtenances; furnishings and office equipment; special and protective clothing for workmen; personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of art without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; purchase or exchange, maintenance and operation of passenger motor vehicle; not to exceed $300 for the purchase of necessary reference books and periodicals; not to exceed $150 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Architect of the Capitol, at meetings or conventions in connection with subjects related to work under the Architect of the Capitol: $745,600. Terraces of Capitol Building: For reconstruction, repair, alteration, and improvement of the terraces of the Capitol Building, including expenditures for personal and other services and all other necessary items, $837,000. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; Capitol Power Plant; personal and other services: care of trees; planting; fertilizers; repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; waterproof wearing apparel; maintenance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; $250,000. Legislative garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal and other services, and all other necessary expenses, $34,200. Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For maintenance, repairs, and rebuilding of the subway transportation system connecting the Senate Office Building with the Capitol, including personal and other services, $3,500. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment, and for labor and material incident thereto, and repairs thereof; for purchase of waterproof wearing apparel and for personal and other services; including five female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms at 67 Stat. 328 $1,800 each, for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building; to be expended under the control and supervision of the Architect of the Capitol; in all, $779,600. preliminary plans and estimates, additional senate office building Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the Appropriation of $850,000 provided in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1948, for construction and equipment of an additional office building for the United States Senate, is hereby made available for expenditure for the preparation of additional preliminary plans and estimates of cost for an additional office building for the use of the United States Senate, designed primarily to provide additional office accommodations, such expenditure to be made by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction and supervision of the Senate Office building Commission created by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of April 28, 1904 (33 Stat. 481), as amended by the Act of July 11, 1947 (61 Stat. 307), the membership of which is hereby increased from five to seven members, such additional members to be appointed by the President of the Senate. House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, waterproof wearing apparel, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $972,000. Capitol Power Plant: For lighting, heating, and power (including the purchase of electrical energy), for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, legislative garage, and for airconditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office and Washington City Post Office, reimbursement for which shall be made and covered into the Treasury; personal and other services, fuel, oil, materials, waterproof wearing apparel, and all other necessary expenses in connection with the maintenance and operation of the plant, $1,330,600. Changes and improvements, Capitol Power Plant: Toward carrying out the changes and improvements authorized by the Act of October 26, 1949 (Public Law 413, Eighty-first Congress), $1,000,000, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the House Office Building Commission. Senate restaurants: For repairs, improvements, furnishings, equipment, labor and materials, and all necessary incidental expenses, to provide additional accommodations for the Senate restaurants, Senate Office Building, $4,250, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended. Library Buildings and Grounds Structural and mechanical care: For the necessary expenditures for mechanical and structural maintenance, including minor improvements, equipment, supplies, waterproof wearing apparel, and personal and other services, $450,000. Furniture and furnishings: For furniture, partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, office and library equipment, apparatus, and laborsaving devices, $50,000.