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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 53 — House of Representatives Members

§ 5310. Certificate of salary during recess

Statutory text

The Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to sign, during the recess of Congress after the first session and until the first day of the second session, the certificates for the monthly compensation of Members and Delegates in Congress, which certificate shall be in the form in use on , and 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. Pub. L. 44–287 § 1 · 19 Stat. 143

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 5310

    (Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 287, § 1, 19 Stat. 145.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 287, § 1, 19 Stat. 145.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 49 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

(Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 287, § 1, 19 Stat. 145.)

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