Volume 4
Public Law 20–C
allowing compensation to the members of the legislature of the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Approved May 24, 1828
Statutory text
An Act
allowing compensation to the members of the legislature of the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That there shall be paid to each member of the two branches of the legislature of the territory of Arkansas three dollars a day for each day he shall actually attend the session thereof; and, also, three dollars for every twenty-five miles’ travel, in going to and returning from such session; to be computed by the actual distance from the place where such member resides to the place where the session of the legislature shall be held, which said distance shall be distinctly certified by the governor of said territory: Provided, however,
Proviso.
That no member shall be entitled to, or shall receive compensation, for daily attendance, for more than thirty days in every two years; or for going to and returning from said legislature, more than once in said two years.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That there shall be paid once in
720 dollars to be paid the governor biennially for certain purposes.
two years, seven hundred and twenty dollars, to the governor of said territory, to be applied towards defraying the incidental expenses of the legislature, in such manner as the said legislature shall direct.
Sec. 3.
And be it further enacted, That there be, and is hereby,
480 dollars appropriated to the district judge of the state of Missouri, &c.
appropriated out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and eighty dollars to the district judge of the state of Missouri, and to each of the judges of the superior court for the territory of Arkansas, for their extra services as land commissioners from the twentysixth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, to the thirty-first day of December next.
Sec. 4.
And be it further enacted, That for the contingent expenses
15,000 dollars appropriated for contingent expenses of the Senate for 1828.
of the Senate for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury.
Approved, .