Article IV
Sec. 15: The compensation of the members of the legislature shall be
three dollars per day for actual attendance, and when absent on account of sickness, but the Legislature may allow extra compensation to the members from the territory of the Upper Peninsula not exceeding two dollars per day during the session.a salary of seven hundred dollars for each regular session, and at such regular session they may legislate upon such subjects as are submitted to them by special message of the governor, after the expiration of the fifty days of the session limited for the introduction of bills; when convened in extra session their compensation shall bethree dollars a day for the first twenty days, and nothing thereaftera salary of one hundred dollars;, and they shall legislate on no other subjects than those expressly stated in the governor’s proclamation, or submitted to them by special message. They shall be entitled to ten cents and no more for every mile actually traveled,in going to and returning from the place of meeting,on the usually traveled route; and for stationery and newspapers not exceeding five dollars for each member during any session. Each member shall be entitled to one copy of the laws, journals, and documents of the legislature of which he was a member;, but shall not receive at the expense of the State, books, newspapers, or other perquisites of office, or any other perquisite or compensation not expressly authorized by this constitution; and no member of the legislature shall accept or use any free pass or free ticket on any railroad during his term of office.
