                          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.
