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Title 2 — The Congress

Part B · Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits

§ 4552. Certificates to pay rolls of employees of House

Statutory text

The Clerk, Sergeant at Arms, and Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall make certificate each month to their respective pay rolls, stating whether the persons named in such pay rolls and employed in their respective departments have been actually present at their respective places of duty and have actually performed the services for which compensation is provided in said pay rolls, and in each case where a person carried on such pay roll has been absent and has not performed the services in whole or in part for which payment is proposed, the reason for such absence and for such nonperformance of services shall be stated.

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. Pub. L. 56–830 § 1 · 31 Stat. 960

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4552

    Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 968

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 968

  2. House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act

    Pub. L. 104–186 title II § 204(41) · 110 Stat. 1718

    Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 4552

    Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “and Chief Administrative Officer” for “Doorkeeper, and Postmaster”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “and Chief Administrative Officer” for “Doorkeeper, and Postmaster”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (41) The twelfth undesignated paragraph relating to contingent expenses, under the center heading “LEGISLATIVE.” and the center subheading “HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.”, in the first section of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1901 (2 U.S.C. 89), is amended by striking out “Doorkeeper, and Postmaster” and inserting in lieu thereof “and Chief Administrative Officer”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 89 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “and Chief Administrative Officer” for “Doorkeeper, and Postmaster”.

Credits

1901–1996 · 2 acts
  1. 1901Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 968
  2. 1996Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(41), , 110 Stat. 1736.
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(Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 968; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(41), , 110 Stat. 1736.)

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