The compensation of the members, officers, and servants of the legislature shall be certified by the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, respectively, to the auditor of public accounts, who shall issue his warrant on the treasurer therefor, payable out of the legislative appropriation.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 17, art. 7 (4); 1857, ch. 5, art. 12; 1871, § 333; 1880, § 189; 1892, § 2671; 1906, § 3031; Hemingway's 1917, § 5419; 1930, § 5353; 1942, § 3351.
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