§ 47. — Mode of payment.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC47]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 3--COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS
Sec. 47. Mode of payment
The compensation of Members and Delegates shall be passed as public
accounts, and paid out of the public Treasury.
(R.S. Sec. 46.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 46 derived from acts Jan. 22, 1818, ch. 5, Sec. 3, 3 Stat.
404, and Feb. 10, 1854, ch. 11, Sec. 1, 10 Stat. 267.
