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1867. An Act relating to the Indemnity to Members and the Salaries of the Speakers, of both Houses of Parliament. [Assented to 21st December, 1867.]

Preamble. Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

Allowance to members of either House for attendance at any session. 1. In each session of Parliament, there shall be allowed to each member of the Senate and of the House of Commons attending at such session, six dollars for each day's attendance, if the session do not extend beyond thirty days; and if the session extends beyond thirty days, then there shall be payable to each member of the Senate and of the House of Commons attending at such a session, a sessional allowance of six hundred dollars and no more.

Deductions for non-attendance. What shall be reckoned as days of attendance. 2. A deduction at the rate of five dollars per day shall be made, from the said sessional allowance, for every day on which the member does not attend a sitting of the House of which he is a member, or of some committee thereof, provided the House sits on such day; but each day during the session, after the first on which the member attends as aforesaid, on which there has been no sitting of such House, in consequence of its having adjourned over such day, or on which the member was in the place where the session was held, but was prevented by sickness from attending any such sitting as aforesaid, shall be reckoned as a day of attendance at such session, for the purposes of this Act; and a member shall, for the purposes aforesaid, be held to be at the place where the session is held, whenever he is within ten miles of such place.

Allowance for less than 31 days' attendance. 3. A member shall not be entitled to the said sessional allowance for less than thirty-one days' attendance reckoned as aforesaid, but his allowance for any less number of days shall be six dollars for each day's attendance.

How the indemnity shall be payable. 4. The said compensation may be paid from time to time as the member becomes entitled to it, to the extend of four dollars for each day's attendance as aforesaid, but the remainder shall be retained by the clerk of the proper House, until the close of the session, when the final payment shall be made.

Case of a member for part of a session provided for. 5. If any person is, from any cause a member of either House for a part only of any session, then provided he is a member for upwards of thirty days during such session, he shall be entitled to the sessional allowance herein before mentioned, subject to the deduction aforesaid for non-attendance as a member, and also to a deduction of five dollars for each day of

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