Chapter XLII. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act allowing Compensation to the Members of the Senate, Members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and to the Delegates of the Territories, and repealing all other Laws on that Subject.”*(*a*)(*a*) For previous acts on the subject, see note in vol. i.
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Chap. XLII.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act allowing Compensation to the Members of the Senate, Members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and to the Delegates of the Territories, and repealing all other Laws on that Subject.”*(*a*)(*a*) For previous acts on the subject, see note in vol. i. p. 70, and Stat. 1850, ch. 90.March 3, 1851. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That from and after No senator to receive mileage for the session commencing March 4, 1853, and every four years thereafter, if he was a member of Congress in the preceding session. the passage of this act, no member of the Senate shall be entitled to receive compensation for his attendance at the Senate, in the recess of Congress, during such meeting of the Senate as may be called on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and on the fourth day of March in every fourth year thereafter, other than the eight dollars per diem for attendance, now allowed by law: *Provided,* That this act shall not apply to a senator, not a member of either house of Congress at the expiration of the Congress preceding such called session of the Senate.
Approved, March 3, 1851.