Each member of the General Assembly shall receive six dollars per day for his services during the first sixty days of any regular session of the General Assembly, and if any regular session shall be extended, such member shall serve without further per diem. Each member of the General Assembly shall also receive ten cents per mile for each mile traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government, over the most direct and practicable route. When convened in extraordinary session by the Governor, they shall each receive three dollars per day for their services during the first fifteen days, and if such extraordinary session shall extend beyond fifteen days, they shall receive no further per diem. They shall be entitled to the same mileage for any extraordinary session as herein provided for regular sessions. The terms of all members of the General Assembly shall begin on the day of their election, and they shall receive no compensation, perquisite or allowance whatever, except as herein provided. [As amended by Const. Amend. 5.]
Publisher's Notes. Compensation of General Assembly members is now governed by Ark. Const. Amend. 70, § 1; commencement of terms is governed by Ark. Const., Art. 8, § 6, as amended. See Berry v. Gordon, 237 Ark. 547 and 865, 376 S.W.2d 279 (1964) and State ex rel. Purcell v. Jones, 242 Ark. 168, 412 S.W.2d 284 (1967), for discussion of implied repeal of this provision by subsequent amendments.
Prior to its amendment, this section read: "The members of the General Assembly shall receive such per diem pay and mileage for their services as shall be fixed by law. No member of either house shall, during the term for which he has been elected, receive any increase of pay for his services under any law passed during such term. The term of all members of the General Assembly shall begin on the day of their election."
An amendment adopted in 1902 (see Acts 1901, p. 412) deleted the words "per diem."