United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 168
[Expired.]
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.
Act of April 18, 1818, ch. 69.
Salaries of the secretary of the Senate and of the clerk of the House of Representatives altered and established.
Repeal of former acts.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 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or perquisites, of any nature or kind whatever, to the said secretary and clerk, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Increase of the salaries of the principal and engrossing clerks.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there be allowed to the 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.