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Title 2 — The Congress

Part B · Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits

§ 4522. Deductions for withdrawal

Statutory text

When any Member or Delegate withdraws from his seat and does not return before the adjournment of Congress, he shall, in addition to the sum deducted for each day, forfeit a sum equal to the amount which would have been allowed by law for his mileage in returning home; and such sum shall be deducted from his compensation, unless the withdrawal is with the leave of the Senate or House of Representatives respectively.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. (R.S. § 41.)

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4522

    (R.S. § 41.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 41.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 40 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 41 derived from Res. , No. 68, § 2, 12 Stat. 628.

Credits

(R.S. § 41.)

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