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[CITE: 2USC34]

 
                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
            CHAPTER 3--COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS
 
Sec. 34. Representatives' and Delegates' salaries payable 
        monthly
        
    Representatives and Delegates-elect to Congress, whose credentials 
in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of section 26 of this 
title, may receive their compensation monthly, from the beginning of 
their term until the beginning of the first session of each Congress, 
upon a certificate in the form now in use to be signed by the Clerk of 
the House, which certificate shall have the like force and effect as is 
given to the certificate of the Speaker.

(R.S. Sec. 38; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, Sec. 1, 18 Stat. 389.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 38 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 226, Sec. 1, 17 
Stat. 488.