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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 53 — House of Representatives Members

§ 5301. Representatives’ and Delegates’ salaries payable monthly

Statutory text

Representatives and Delegates-elect to Congress, whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of section 26 of this title, may receive their compensation monthly, from the beginning of their term until the beginning of the first session of each Congress, upon a certificate in the form now in use to be signed by the Clerk of the House, which certificate shall have the like force and effect as is given to the certificate of the Speaker.

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. § 38

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 5301

    R.S. § 38

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

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 38

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

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 34 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 38 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 226, § 1, 17 Stat. 488.

Credits

1875 · 2 acts
  1. R.S. § 38
  2. 1875Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, § 1, 18 Stat. 389.
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(R.S. § 38; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, § 1, 18 Stat. 389.)

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