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[CITE: 2USC49]

 
                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
            CHAPTER 3--COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS
 
Sec. 49. Certificate of salary during recess

    The Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed 
to sign, during the recess of Congress after the first session and until 
the first day of the second session, the certificates for the monthly 
compensation of Members and Delegates in Congress, which certificate 
shall be in the form in use on August 15, 1876, and shall have the like 
force and effect as is given to the certificate of the Speaker.

(Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 287, Sec. 1, 19 Stat. 145.)