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Texas Constitution:Article III, Section 24 (view source)
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* ''Spears v. Sheppard'', 150 S.W.2d 769, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/150_SW2_769.pdf#page=2 770] (Tex. 1941) ("Article III, Section 24, [] provides, in part, as follows: '. . . .' This provision of the Constitution definitely fixes the pay of a member of the Legislature at 'a per diem of not exceeding $10.00 per day for the first 120 days of each session,' and does not make the right to such per diem dependent upon actual attendance on the sessions of the Legislature. All that is required is that the Legislature be in session and that the claimant be a member thereof. This provision of the Constitution was doubtless so drawn because, as is well known, much of the work of the Legislature is performed in committee meetings during recess periods.") | * ''Spears v. Sheppard'', 150 S.W.2d 769, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/150_SW2_769.pdf#page=2 770] (Tex. 1941) ("Article III, Section 24, [] provides, in part, as follows: '. . . .' This provision of the Constitution definitely fixes the pay of a member of the Legislature at 'a per diem of not exceeding $10.00 per day for the first 120 days of each session,' and does not make the right to such per diem dependent upon actual attendance on the sessions of the Legislature. All that is required is that the Legislature be in session and that the claimant be a member thereof. This provision of the Constitution was doubtless so drawn because, as is well known, much of the work of the Legislature is performed in committee meetings during recess periods.") | ||
* ''Terrell v. King'', 14 S.W.2d 786, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/014_SW2_786.pdf#page=6 791] (Tex. 1929 | * ''Terrell v. King'', 14 S.W.2d 786, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/014_SW2_786.pdf#page=6 791] (Tex. 1929) ("By the foregoing article the Legislature is forbidden to provide any greater ''compensation'' for the services of the members of the Legislature than the stated per diem and mileage. Save as measured by duration of sessions, regular or called, no warrant can be found in the Constitution for the payment of per diem compensation to members of the Legislature. . . . So much of the resolution is therefore in contravention of section 24 of article 3 as undertakes to provide that the members of the committee from the House and Senate shall receive ''as compensation'' the sum of ten dollars per day for each day they serve.") | ||
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