each deputy clerk, one thousand dollars, except the deputy clerk assigned as chief clerk of the engrossing rooms of the senate and assembly, who shall receive fifteen hundred dollars each; excepting also the deputy clerk assigned as clerk to the committee on revision in the assembly and the revision clerk of the senate who shall each receive fifteen hundred dollars; to each financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; to the assistant financial clerk of the assembly, ten dollars per day; to the messenger of each of the financial clerks, five dollars per day; to each index clerk, two thousand dollars; to the first assistant index clerk of the assembly, fifteen hundred dollars; to the second assistant index clerk of the assembly and to the assistant index clerk of the senate, each one thousand dollars; to the clerk of the president of the senate, to the clerk of the temporary president and to the speaker's clerk, each ten dollars per day; to the stenographer of the president of the senate, of the temporary president, of the speaker, of the clerk of the senate, and clerk of the assembly, and each of the stenographers appointed in addition thereto by the speaker, and the clerk of the senate, five dollars per day; to each general stenographer of the assembly three dollars per day; to each sergeant-at-arms, librarian, and postmaster, six dollars per day; to the assistant sergeant-at-arms of the senate, to each assistant librarian, assistant postmaster, principal doorkeeper, assistant doorkeeper, janitor, assistant janitor, superintendent of documents, and to each assistant superintendent of documents, superintendent of the wrapping department, assistant superintendents of the wrapping

department, five dollars per day; to the stenographer of each house, two thousand five hundred dollars; to each clerk of the senate committee on finance and affairs of cities, ten dollars per day; to each clerk of the senate committees on judiciary and codes, seven dollars per day; to each clerk of the assembly committees on ways and means, and affairs of cities, ten dollars per day; to the clerk of the assembly committees on judiciary, on codes, on railroads, seven dollars per day; to each other committee clerk of each house and each general clerk of the assembly, five dollars per day; to the postoffice messenger of each house, three dollars per day; to the messenger of the president of the senate, the temporary president and the speaker's messenger, each three dollars per day; to the superintendent of the wrapping department, to each assistant superintendent of the wrapping department, to the tally clerk, and the mail and document carrier of the assembly, five dollars per day; to each general messenger of each house, three dollars per day; to each clerk's messenger of each house and to each messenger of the committees of each house, three dollars per day; to each messenger having charge of the pages in the senate and assembly, five dollars per day; and to each page, two dol lars per day. The pay of the officers or the employees who receive by this chapter a per diem compensation shall commence at the date of the appointment, and no person or employee shall receive any additional compensation during the term of service for which he shall be appointed.

§ II. Compensation during extra sessions and impeachment trials.- An employee of the senate or

assembly, during an extra session of the legislature, or an officer or employee of the senate designated to attend upon the senate when sitting as a court for the trial of impeachments, or upon the trial of public officers on the recommendation of the governor, shall receive the same per diem allowance during such term or extra session as his compensation or per diem allowance would give per day of the regular session of the same year.

§ 12. Attendance of officers of each session at opening of next session.- The clerk of each house, and one officer thereof designated by him, shall attend and receive compensation for a period of eight days for their services prior to and upon the opening of the next succeeding session of the legislature, and the following other officers only of each session shall attend and receive compensation for their services upon the opening of the next succeeding session of the legislature: the assistant clerk, the journal clerk, speaker's clerk, sergeant-at-arms, postmasters, financial clerk, index clerk, stenographer and principal doorkeeper of the senate and assembly and assistant doorkeeper and four pages in the senate, and three assistant doorkeepers, two messengers and six pages in the assembly, the assistant doorkeepers, messengers and pages to be designated by the presiding officer of the house for which appointed before the close of the session and entered upon the journal of the house. The officers named in this section shall receive for services upon the opening of a succeeding session of the legislature the same per diem compensation as they were entitled to receive at the preceding session for like services.

§ 13. Officers remaining after adjournment.— The clerk of each house and five officers thereof to be designated by the presiding officer thereof may remain after the adjournment of the legislature to perform duty under the direction of the clerk of each house respectively for not to exceed thirty days. Such officers shall receive the same per diem compensation respectively, as they were entitled to receive during the session, to be paid upon the warrant of the comptroller on the certificate of the clerk of the house for which appointed.

§ 14. Undertaking of clerk of each house. The clerk of each house before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute an official undertaking in the sum of ten thousand dollars.

§ 15. Duties of clerks. The clerks of the senate and assembly shall annually, without extra compensation, revise, and send to the members of the legislature, before the organization thereof, the clerk's manual, and shall, within thirty days after the organization of the legislature, prepare a statistical list of the members and officers, with their boarding places or places of residence while in the city of Albany.

The clerk of each house shall, as soon as practicable after the close of each session, prepare and deliver to the legislative printer the indexes to the journals, bills and documents of such house.

§ 16. Supplies furnished by clerks.- The clerk of each house shall purchase all stationery, printed blanks and other articles necessary for use in his official work,

or in the work of the sergeant-at-arms, and shall furnish its members, officers and reporters with necessary stationery and writing materials and shall prepay the postage on all letters deposited with them for transmission through the mails by members of the senate and assembly, respectively. The clerk of each house shall, under the direction and subject to the approval of the comptroller purchase such furniture as may be necessary for the house of which he is clerk.

§ 17. Accountability of clerks to comptroller.— The clerk of each house at the end of each month during the session shall account to the comptroller for all moneys received up to that time, and within ten days after the close of the session, shall file with the comptroller an abstract in such form and containing such particulars as the comptroller shall direct of all expenditures made by him, with the vouchers therefor; and shall give him satisfactory evidence that the expenditures were reasonable.

§ 18. Duties of postmasters and assistants. The postmasters and assistant postmasters and post-office messengers shall perform all the labors in the postoffices of their respective houses.

$ 19. Duties of stenographers.-The stenographers shall attend at every session of the body for which they are appointed or elected and take stenographic notes of the debates of such body and in the commit. tee of the whole thereof, and furnish a copy thereof written out in longhand, to any member of such body.