Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 53 — House of Representatives Members
§ 5307. Certification of salary and mileage accounts
Statutory text
Salary and mileage accounts of Representatives and Delegates shall be certified by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and such certificates shall be conclusive upon all the departments and officers of the Government.
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.
R.S. §§ 47, 48
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 5307
R.S. §§ 47, 48
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. §§ 47, 48Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005
Pub. L. 108–447 div. G title I § 11 · 118 Stat. 2809
Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 5307
Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “of Representatives and Delegates shall be certified” for “of Senators shall be certified by the President of the Senate, and those of Representatives and Delegates”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “of Representatives and Delegates shall be certified” for “of Senators shall be certified by the President of the Senate, and those of Representatives and Delegates”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 11. Modification of Application of Section 47 of the Revised Statutes. Section 47 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 48) is amended by striking “of Senators shall be certified by the President of the Senate, and those of Representatives and Delegates” and inserting “of Representatives and Delegates shall be certified”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 48 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
R.S. § 47 derived from acts July 28, 1866, ch. 296, § 17, 14 Stat. 323, and Jan. 22, 1818, ch. 5, § 3, 3 Stat. 404.
R.S. § 48 derived from act Sept. 30, 1850, ch. 90, § 1, 9 Stat. 523.
R.S. § 47 constitutes first clause and R.S. § 48 constitutes remainder.
Words “mileage accounts” substituted for words “accounts for traveling expenses in going to and returning from Congress” based on text of section 17 of act July 28, 1866, ch. 296, 14 Stat. 323.
Amendments
2004—Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “of Representatives and Delegates shall be certified” for “of Senators shall be certified by the President of the Senate, and those of Representatives and Delegates”.
Credits
2004 · 2 acts
- R.S. §§ 47, 48
- 2004Pub. L. 108–447, div. G, title I, § 11, , 118 Stat. 3171.
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(R.S. §§ 47, 48; Pub. L. 108–447, div. G, title I, § 11, , 118 Stat. 3171.)