Chapter XLVIII. *regulating the Compensation of the Members and Officers of the legislative Assemblies of the several Territories of the United States, and limiting the Duration of the Sessions of said Assemblies*
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CHAP. XLVIII.— An Act *regulating the Compensation of the Members and Officers of the legislative Assemblies of the several Territories of the United States, and limiting the Duration of the Sessions of said Assemblies*. Jan. 23, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and Hoose of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Sessions of legislatures of Territories limited to forty days. That the sessions of the legislative assemblies of the several Territories of the United States shall be limited to forty days’ duration.
Sec. 2. Pay and mileage of members;That the members of each branch of said legislatures shall receive a compensation of six dollars per day during the sessions herein provided for, and they shall receive such mileage as now provided by law: of president and speaker.*Provided*, That the president of the council and the speaker of the House of Representatives shall each receive a compensation of ten dollars per Additional officers and their pay.day, and that the additional officers of each branch of said legislative assemblies shall consist of one chief clerk, who shall receive a compensation of eight dollars per day, and of one assistant clerk, one enrolling clerk, one engrossing clerk, one sergeant-at-arms, one door-keeper, one messenger, and one watchman, who shall each receive a compensation of five dollars per day during the sessions.
Sec. 3. Salaries of governors and secretaries of Territories.That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the annual salaries of the governors of the several Territories of the United States shall be three thousand five hundred dollars, and the salaries of the secretaries of said Territories shall be two thousand five hundred dollars each. Sec. 4. This act not to apply to the District of Columbia.That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no law of any territorial legislature shall be made or enforced by which any officer of a Territory herein provided Officers, &c., to receive only the pay given by the laws of the United States.for, or the officers or members of any territorial legislature shall be paid any compensation other than that provided by the laws of the United States.
Approved, January 23, 1873.