Chap. 67.—An ACT Fixing the Pay and Mileage of Members of the
General Assembly.

Approved April 23, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the presi-
dent of the senate and the speaker of the house of delegates
shall each receive the sum of ten dollars per day, and each of
the other members of the general assembly the sum of six
dollars per day for attendance upon the duties of their re-
spective houses, to commence from the eighth day of Feb-
ruary, eighteen hundred and seventy. Any member taken so
sick during the session of the general assembly, or on his
journey to the place of session, as to be unable to come to or
sit in the house, or who shall have obtained leave of absence,
shall receive wages for every day of the session he shall be so
disabled or so absent, in the same manner as if he had sat in
the house.

2. The members of the assembly shall be allowed mileage
at the rate of twenty cents per mile for every mile of neces-
sary travel to and from the place of session of the general
assembly, to be computed according to the nearest mail route
in use at the time such mileage shall be claimed.

3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this act, are hereby repealed. ,

4. This act shall be in force from its passage.