Volume 63 · 4
Public Law 81–2
To increase rates of compensation of the President, Vice President, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Approved January 19, 1949
Statutory text
AN ACT
To increase rates of compensation of the President, Vice President, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
section 102 of title 3 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 102. “compensation of the president
The President shall receive in full for his services during the term for which he shall have been elected compensation in the aggregate amount of $100,000 a year, to be paid monthly, and in addition an expense allowance of $50,000 to assist in defraying expenses relating to or resulting from the discharge of his official duties, for which expense allowance no tax liability shall accrue and for which no accounting shall be made by him. He shall be entitled also to the use of the furniture and other effects belonging to the United States and kept in the Executive Mansion.”
Section 104 of title 3 of the United States Code (relating to salary of the Vice President) is amended by striking out “$20,000” and inserting in lieu thereof “$30,000”.
Chapter 2 of title 3 of the United States Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
“Sec. 111. “expense allowance of vice president
There shall be paid to the Vice President in equal monthly installments an expense allowance of $10,000 per annum to assist in defraying expenses relating to or resulting from the discharge of his official duties, for which no tax liability shall occur or accounting be made by him.”
The matter following the semicolon in section 601 (a) of the Legislative
60 Stat. 850.
Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended, is amended to read as follows: “and the compensation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be at the rate of $30,000 per annum”.
There shall be paid to the Speaker of the House of Representatives in equal monthly installments an expense allowance of $10,000 per annum (which shall be in lieu of the allowance provided by section
601 (b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended) to assist in defraying expenses relating to or resulting from the discharge of his official duties, for which no tax liability shall occur or accounting be made by him.
The allowance for clerical assistance to the Vice President contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act for the fiscal year
1949, at rates of compensation to be fixed by him in multiples of $5 per month, hereby is increased from $32,385 per annum to $45,000 per annum.
Sec. 2.
Computation of deduction and annuity.
In computing the amount to be deducted from the compensation of any official whose salary is increased under this Act for the
5 U. S. C. § 691 et seq.; Supp. II, § 691 et seq.
Post, pp. 266, 475, 490, 577, 609, 621, 663, 699, 704, 884.
purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, and in computing the amount of any annuity under such Act, any increase in compensation provided by this Act shall be disregarded until further Act of Congress.
Sec. 3.
Effective date.
The provisions of this Act shall take effect at noon on January 20, 1949.
Approved January 19, 1949.