AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING THE THIRTIETH OF JUNE, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * * * * * * That hereafter the members of both branches of the Legislative Assemblies of the several Territories shall be chosen for the term of two years, and the sessions of the Legislative Assemblies shall be biennial; and each Territorial Legislature shall, at its first session after the passage of this act, make provision by law for carrying this act into effect.
Approved March 3d, 1869.
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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sessions of the Legislative Assemblies of the several Territories of the United States shall be limited to forty days duration.
Sec. 2. 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; Provided, That the President of the Council, and Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each receive a compensation of ten dollars per 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 Doorkeeper, one Messenger, and one Watchman, who shall each receive a compensation of five dollars per day during the sessions.
Sec. 3. 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. 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 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.