2 USC § 5308 - Substitute to sign certificates for salary and accounts

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identifier: "/us/usc/t2/s5308"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "2 USC § 5308 - Substitute to sign certificates for salary and accounts"
title_number: 2
title_name: "THE CONGRESS"
section_number: "5308"
section_name: "Substitute to sign certificates for salary and accounts"
chapter_number: 53
chapter_name: "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERS"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "MEMBER PAY"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Nov. 12, 1903, P. Res. No. 1, 33 Stat. 1.)"
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# § 5308. Substitute to sign certificates for salary and accounts

section 5307 of this title

The Speaker is authorized to designate from time to time some one from among those appointed by him and appropriated for and employed in his office, whose duty it shall be under the direction of the Speaker to sign in his name and for him all certificates required by  for salary and accounts for traveling expenses in going to and returning from Congress of Representatives and Delegates.

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**Source Credit**: (Nov. 12, 1903, P. Res. No. 1, 33 Stat. 1.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

, referred to in text, was in the original “section forty-seven of the Revised Statutes”, which initially enacted part of  and was subsequently reclassified as . See Codification notes under sections 48 and 5307 of this title.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to  prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.