Section 6

Act 116 of 1909, § 6, under LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL, PRINTING OF.

Act 116 of 1909, § 6

Section 6. The chief clerk of the Senate is hereby authorized to appoint at the beginning of each regular biennial session of the Senate, and at such other times as may be necessary, two expert stenographers, who shall be known as the official reporters of the Senate, and two expert typewriters. The chief clerk of the House of Representatives is hereby authorized to appoint at the beginning of each regular biennial session of the House of Representatives, and at such other times as may be necessary, three expert stenographers, who shall be known as the official reporters of the House of Representatives, and three expert typewriters. The official stenographers shall take the debates, and such other matter as may be required by the chief clerks and journal clerks of either House, and the typewriters shall transcribe the same. The compensation of each of said official stenographers shall be twelve dollars per diem, for every day of each regular biennial, special, or extraordinary session; and the typewriter shall each receive six dollars per diem, for every day of each regular biennial, special, or extraordinary session. Each of the above-named officers and employes shall return, as such, to the next regular biennial session of the Legislature following that for which they were appointed; and those who are not reappointed, or appointed or elected to some other office in the Legislature, shall be allowed their regular per diem compensation. Each of the above-named officers and employes shall be entitled to the same mileage, for each regular biennial, special, or extraordinary session, as is provided for the other officers of the General Assembly, in section four of the act approved April twelfth, one thousand nine hundred and five. The Librarian of the Senate shall appoint a competent person or persons to index the Legislative Journal, and for the payment of the same the sum of one thousand dollars shall be allowed. The Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding is hereby authorized to appoint, at the beginning of each session of the Legislature, a clerk (who shall be a competent printer), whose duty it shall be to supervise, arrange, and measure the composition of the Legislative Journal; for which services he shall receive the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, until the Journal, appendix, and index have been completed.