Chapter CLXVIII. fixing the compensation of the secretary of the Senate, and clerk of the House of Representatives, and making provision for the clerks employed in their offices
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Chap. CLXVIII.— An Act fixing the compensation of the secretary of the Senate, and clerk of the House of Representatives, and making provision for the clerks employed in their offices.April 30, 1816. [Expired.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69. Salaries of the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives altered and established. United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That in lieu of the compensation heretofore allowed by law to the secretary of the Senate, and clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States, they shall severally receive the sum of three thousand dollars annually, payable quarterly, as heretofore.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of any act heretofore passed, providing any compensation, salary or perquisites, of any nature or kind whatever, to the said secretary and clerk, shall be, and Repeal of former acts. the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That there be allowed to the Increase of salaries of the principal and engrossing clerks. principal and engrossing clerks of the Senate and of [the] House of Representatives, an addition of twenty per centum on the compensations to which they are at present entitled by law.
This act shall take effect and continue in force for two years from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Approved, April 30, 1816.