The Chairman of the Committees on Ways and Means and
Claims shall appoint a clerk each to their respective commit-
tees. The compensation of all the clerks and employees shall
be five dollars a day, except the Chief Clerk, Reading Clerk
and Journal Clerk, who shall be paid ten dollars a day; the
Clerk to the Committee on Claims and Chief Engrossing Clerk,
six dollars a day each.

The Pages shall be required, when necessary, to assist the
folders and the officers of the House in such duties as may be
assigned to them, when not actually engaged in the active du-
ties of the office of Page.

No extra compensation shall be allowed to any member or
officer of the House, during the present session, except to the
members of the Committee on Engrossed Bills and Resolu-
tions, with such additional members of said committee as may
be authorized to be appointed at or about the close of the ses-
sion, and to the clerks of said committee, and such additional
clerks as may be authorized to be appointed at or about the
close of the session, and such others as may be required to
remain in attendance upon the business of the House after
final adjournment; but no extra compensation shall be paid
in any event, except in pursuance of resolution or order of the
House, to be reported upon by its appropriate committee, to be
passed by aye and nay vote, by a majority of all the members
elected to the House, which said order or resolution shall also
fix the amount that shall be allowed.

All clerks, officers or employees shall be prompt in their
attendance at each opening of the House, and shall remain at
their several posts daring the entire sitting of the House,
ready to render any service in accordance with their several
duties.

No clerk, officer or employee shall be absent at any time
during the sitting of the House, unless by permission of the
Speaker, nor absent himself from the service of the House,
unless in pursuance of leave of absence obtained from the
House

THE CHIEF CLERK
Shall keep the files of the House, preserve all petitions and
other papers belonging to the Archives. He shall place appro-
priate endorsements upon all papers presented to the House,
and after entering the same in books kept for that purpose,