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The members of the General Assembly shall severally receive from the public treasury such compensation for their services as may, from time to time, be provided by law, not to exceed five dollars per day for the first seventy days of each session, and after that not to exceed one dollar per day for the remainder of the session, except the first session held under this Constitution, and during revising sessions, when they may receive five dollars per day for one hundred and twenty days, and one dollar per day for the remainder of such sessions. In addition to per diem, the members shall be entitled to receive traveling expenses or mileage,

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for any regular and extra session, not greater than now provided by law; but no member shall be entitled to traveling expenses or mileage for any extra session that may be called within one day after an adjournment of a regular session. Committees of either house, or joint committees of both houses, appointed to examine the institutions of the State, other than those at the seat of government, may receive their actual expenses, necessarily incurred while in the performance of such duty -- the items of such expenses to be returned to the chairman of such committee, and by him certified to the State Auditor, before the same, or any part thereof, can be paid. Each member may receive at each regular session an additional sum of thirty dollars, which shall be in full for all stationery used in his official capacity, and all postage, and all other incidental expenses and perquisites; and no allowance or emoluments, for any purpose whatever, shall be made to or received by the members, or any member of either house, or for their use, out of the contingent fund or otherwise, except as herein expressly provided; and no allowance or emolument, for any purpose whatever, shall ever be paid to any officer, agent, servant or employe of either house of the General Assembly, or of any committee thereof, except such per diem as may be provided for by law, not to exceed five dollars.

5. V.

ΜΟΝΤΑΝΑ.

Each member of the first Legislative Assembly, as a compensation for his services, shall receive six dollars for each day's

twenty cents for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government to his residence by the usually traveled route, and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance whatsoever. No session of the Legislative Assembly, after the first, which may be ninety days, shall exceed sixty days.

After the first session, the compensation of the members of the Legislative Assembly shall be as provided by law: Provided, That no Legislative Assembly shall fix its own compensation.

NEBRASKA.

The term of office of members of the Legislature shall be two years, and they shall each receive pay at the rate of five dollars per day during their sitting, and ten cents for every mile they shall travel in going to and returning from the place of meeting of the Legislature, on the most usual route: Provided, however, that they shall not receive pay for more than sixty days at any one sitting, nor more than one hundred days during their term. That neither members of the Legislature nor employes shall receive any pay or perquisites other than their salary and mileage. Each session, except special sessions, shall be not less than sixty days. After the expiration of forty days of the session no bills or joint resolutions of the nature of bills shall be introduced, unless the Governor shall by special message call the attention of the Legislature to the necessity of passing a law on the subject-matter embraced in the message, and the intro

The members of the Legislature shall receive for their services a compensation to be fixed by law, and paid out of the public treasury; but no increase of such compensation shall take effect during the term for which the members of either house shall have

been elected: Provided, That an appropriation may be made for the payment of such actual expenses as members of the Legislature may incur for postage, express charges, newspapers, and stationery, not exceeding the sum of sixty dollars for any general or special session, to each member; and furthermore provided, that the speaker of the Assembly, and Lieutenant-Governor, ag president of the Senate, shall each, during the time of their actual attendance as such presiding officers, receive an additional allowance of two dollars per day.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

15. II.

The presiding officers of both houses of the Legislature shall severally receive out of the State treasury as compensation in full for their services, for the term elected, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, and all other members thereof seasonably attending and not departing without license, the sum of two hundred dollars, exclusive of mileage: Provided, however, That when a special session shall be called by the Governor, such officers and members shall receive for attendance an additional compensation of three dol

The members of the General Assembly for the term for which they have been elected shall receive as a compensation for their services the sum of four dollars per day for each day of their session, for a period not exceeding sixty days; and should they remain longer in session, they shall serve without compensation. They shall also be entitled to receive ten cents per mile, both while coming to the seat of government and while returning home, the said distance to be computed by the nearest line or route of public travel. The compensation of the presiding officers of the two houses shall be six dollars per day and mileage. Should an extra session of the General Assembly be called, the members and presiding officers shall receive a like rate of compensation for a period not exceeding twenty days.

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45. II.

NORTH DAKOTA.

Each member of the Legislative Assembly shall receive as a compensation for his services for each session, five dollars per day, and ten cents for every mile of necessary travel in going to and returning from the place of the meeting of the Legislative Assembly, on the most usual route.

31. IV.

OHIO.

The members and officers of the General Assembly shall receive a fixed compensation, to be prescribed by law, and no other allowance or perquisites, either in the payment of postage or otherwise, and no change in their compensation shall take effect during their term of office.

29. IV.

OREGON.

The members of the Legislative Assembly shall receive for their services a sum not exceeding three dollars a day, from the commencement of the session; but such pay shall not exceed in the aggregate one hundred and twenty dollars for per diem allowance for any one session. When convened in extra session by the Governor, they shall receive three dollars per day; but no extra session shall continue for a longer period than twenty days. They shall also receive the sum of three dollars for every twenty miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting, on the most usual route. The presiding officers of the assembly shall, in virtue of their office, receive an additional compensation equal to two-thirds of their per diem allowance as members.

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ing from the place where such session is held, after which they shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by law; but no General Assembly shall have the power to increase the compensation of its own members. And when convened in extra session they shall receive the same mileage and per diem compensation as are fixed by law for the regular session, and none other.

6. III.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

The terms of office of the members of the Legislature shall be two years; they shall receive for their services the sum of five dollars for each day's attendance during the session of the Legislature; and five cents for every mile of necessary travel in going to and returning from the place of meeting of the Legislature on the most usual route. Each regular session of the Legislature shall not exceed sixty days, except in cases of impeachment, and members of the Legislature shall receive no other pay or perquisites except per diem and mileage.

23. II.

TENNESSEE.

The sum of four dollars per day, and four dollars for every twenty-five miles traveling to and from the seat of government shall be allowed to the members of each General Assembly elected after the ratification of this Constitution, as a compensation for their services. But no member shall be paid for more than seventy-five days of a regular session, or for more than twenty days of any extra or called session; or for any day when absent from his seat

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The members of the Legislature shall receive from the treasury such compensation for their services as may from time to time be provided by law, not exceeding five dollars per day for the first sixty days of each session; and after that not exceeding two dollars per day for the remainder of the session, except the first held under this Constitution, when they may receive not exceeding five dollars per day for the first ninety days, and after that not exceeding two dollars per day for the remainder of the session. In addition to the per diem, the members of each house shall be entitled to mileage in going to and returning from the seat of government, which mileage shall not exceed five dollars for every twenty-five miles, the distance to be computed by the nearest and most direct route of travel by land regardless of railways or water routes; and the Comptroller of the State shall prepare and presrve a table of distances to each county seat now or hereafter to be established, and by such table the mileage of each member shall be paid; but no member shall be entitled to mileage for any extra session that may be called within one day after the adjournment of a regular or called session.

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sembly shall receive for their services a salary; to be ascertained by law and paid out of the public treasury; but no act increasing such salary shall take effect until after the end of the term for which the members of the House of Delegates voting thereon were elected; and no Senator or Delegate, during the term for which he shall have been elected, shall be appointed to any civil office of profit under the Commonwealth which has been created, or the emoluments of which have been increased during such term, except offices filled by election by the people.

The members of the Legislature shall each receive for their services the sum of four dollars per day, and ten cents for each mile traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government by the most direct route. The speaker of the House of Delegates and the president of the Senate shall each receive an additional compensation of two dollars per day for each day they shall act as presiding officers. No other allowance or emolument than that by this section provided shall directly or indirectly be made or paid to the members of either house for