Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-09-11
The Congressional Compensation Act.

Inc congressional compensation Act
The following is an official copy Of the
new Congressional compensation act:
AN Act 10 regulate the Compensation of
Members Of Congress.
Be ienacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives. ofth United Safes Of .7meri.
ca IN Congress assembled, That the compen-
saton Of each Senator, Representative, and
Delegate in Congress, shall be $4,000 for
each Congress, and mileage, as now pro-
vided by law, for two sessions only, TO be
paid in manner following, 10 wit.-On the
first day of each regular session, each Sen
ator, Representative, and Delegate shall re-
ceive his mileage for one session; and on the
first day Of each month thereafter, during
such session, compensation at the rste Of
So 900 per annum during the continuance
OF such session; and at the end of such sess-
ion he shall receive the residue Of his sal
ary due TO him at such time, at the rate a.
ioresaid, still unpaid; and at the beginning
Of the second regular session of the Con-
gress, each Senator, Representative, and
Delegate shall receive his mileage for such
second session; and monthly, during such
session, compensation at the rate of SO 900
per annum, till the 4th day of March ter.
minating the Congress; and on that day each
Senator, Representative, and Delegate shall
be entitled TO receive any balance of the
$4,000 not Heretofore paid in the said
monthly nstalm ents as above directed.
Sec. 2. find be it further enacted, That
the President Of the Senate pro tempore, when
there shall be no Vice President, or the
Vice President shall have become Presi-
dent of the United States, shall receive the
compensation provided by law for the Vice
President, and the Speaker of the House OF
Representatives shall receive double the
compensation above provided for Represent
atives, payable at the times and in the man.
ner above provided for payment of the com.
pensation Of Representatives.
Sec. 8. find be ii further enacted, That
this law shall apply to the present Congress,
and each Senator, Representative, and Del
egate shall be entitled to receive the differ
ence only between their per diem compen-
sation already received under the law now
in force, and the compensation provided by
this act.
Sec. 4. ind be ii further enacted, That in
the event of the death of any Senator, Rep
resentative, or Delegate, prior to the COM
mencement of the first session of the Con-
gress, he shall he neither entitled to mileage
nor compensation; and in the event Of death
after the commencement of any session, his
representatives shall be entitled TO receive
so much of his compensation, computed al
the rate of SO 900 per annum, as he may
not have received, and any mileage that may
have actually accrued, and be due and un-
paid.
Sec. 5. find be ii further enacted, That
if any books shall hereafter be ordered 10
and received by members OF Congress, by a
resolution Of either or both houses of Con-
gress, the price paid for the same shall be
deducted from the compensation hereinbe-
fore provided for such member or members:
Provided howeuer, That this shall not ex-
tend to books ordered to be printed by the
public printer during the Congress for
which the said member shall have been e.
lected.
Sec. 6. find be ii further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at- Arms of
the House, and Secretary of the Senate,
respectfully, TO deduct from the monthly
payments of members as herein provided
for, the aInoun. of his compensation for each
day that such member shall be absent from
the House or Senate, respectively, unless
such Representative, Senator, or Delegate
shall assign as the reason for such absence
the sickness of himself or of some member
of his family.
Sec. 7. find be it further enacted, That
all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with
or repugnant to the provisions of this act
|, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
SOUTHERN EDUoATIoS.-Bishop Polk, oi
Louisiana, has addressed a letter to the edi-
tor of the New Orleans Delta, covering a
I circular addressed by him to the Bishops Of
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas,
Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and the Caro-
linas, on the necessity of organizing sys-
TEN of Southern education, and building up
Southern religious institutions, as part Of
general system of defence, of which the
South is daily growing in more need.
An EmPrY WAGoS.-A Cincinnati cor.
respondent Of the Baltimore American gives
cheering account Of the prospects of the
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