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1867.
Members' Indemnity Act.
Cap. 3.

such adjournment; As to residue of session after adjournment.and if the residue of the session, after any such adjournment, shall extend to thirty days or upwards, there shall be payable to each member of the Senate and of the House of Commons attending at such residue of this session, the sessional allowance of six hundred dollars and no more, as if such residue were a session; but if such residue do not extend to thirty days, then there shall be allowed to each Member attending the residue of the session, six dollars for each day's attendance subsequent to such adjournment; provided that any allowance under this section shall be subject to the deductions, and be payable in the manner hereinbefore provided with respect to the ordinary sessions of Parliament.

Mileage allowed for both portions of Session.11. There shall be allowed in respect of travel to and from the present Session of Parliament, as well prior to any adjournment for thirty days or upwards (if such there should be) as for the residue of the Session after any such adjournment, to each Member of the Senate and of the House of Commons ten cents for each mile of the distance between the place of residence of such Member and the place at which such Session is held, reckoning such distance going and coming according to the nearest mail route, which distance shall be determined and certified by the Speaker of the Senate or House of Commons (as the case may be) and such allowance shall be payable in the manner hereinbefore provided.

Salaries of Speakers.12. The following salaries shall be payable to the Officers hereinafter mentioned, respectively:

Senate.To the Speaker of the Senate the sum of three thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

Commons.To the Speaker of the House of Commons the sum of three thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

Short Title.13. This Act may be cited as the "The Members' Indemnity Act."


Schedule Form A.

I, A. B., One of the members of the Senate (or House of Commons,) solemnly declare, that I reside at in which is distant by the nearest mail route miles, as determined by the Speaker of this House, from where the session of Parliament of Canada, which began on the day of one thousand eight hundred and was held—

That the first day during the said session on which I was present, at where the said session was held, was the day of one thousand eight hundred and .

That on the said day and on each day of the said session, after the said day on which there was a sitting of the said House, I attended such sitting, or a sitting of some Committee
thereof,*