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FOREIGN COUNTRIES See also:Argentina.—Both senators (30) and members of the See also:House of Deputies (120) receive £ro6o a See also:year. See also:Austria.—Members of the See also:Lower House (516) receive As. 8d. for each See also:day's attendance, with travelling expenses. See also:Belgium.—Members of the Chamber of Representatives (166) receive £16o a year and a See also:free pass over See also:railways. See also:Bolivia.—Senators (16) and deputies (69) receive £40 a See also:month during sessions, which last from 6o to 90 days. See also:Bulgaria.—Members of the Legislature receive As. a day during the session, which nominally lasts from the 15th of See also:October to the 15th of See also:December. See also:Denmark.—Members both of the Landsthing (66) and of the Folkething (114) receive rd. a day for the first six months of the session, and 6s. 8d. for each additional day of the session. They receive also second-class free passes on all railways. See also:France.—Members of both the See also:Senate (300) and of the Chamber of Deputies (584) receive £600 a year. See also:German See also:Empire.—Members both of the Bundesrat (58) and of the Reichstag (397) receive £15o for the session, but have deducted £1 for each day's See also:absence. They receive also free passes over the German railways during the session. See also:Baden pays members of its Second Chamber and such members of the Upper Chamber as have not got hereditary seats 12S. a day and travelling expenses, but to those members who reside in the See also:capital 9s. a day only. See also:Bavaria pays members of the Lower House (163) £18o for a See also:regular session. They are also allowed free travel over the See also:government railways. See also:Hesse.—Members of the Second Chamber (50) and non-hereditary members" of the Upper Chamber who reside more than 12 m. from the See also:place of See also:meeting receive 9s. a day and 3s. for each See also:night, besides a refund of their travelling expenses. See also:Prussia.—Members of the Lower Chamber (433) receive travelling expenses and See also:diet See also:money (according to a fixed See also:scale) of 158. a day. See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg.—Members of the Second Chamber residing in Coburg or See also:Gotha receive 6s. a day; other members receive 1os. a day and travelling expenses. See also:Saxony.—Members of the Second Chamber (82) and non-hereditary members of the Upper Chamber receive 12S. a day (6s. a day if they live in the place of meeting) and an See also:allowance for travelling. See also:Wurttemberg.—Members of both See also:chambers receive 15s. a day for actual attendance; also free passes over the railways. See also:Greece.—The members (235) receive £72 for the session, also free passes on railway and steamship lines. See also:Hungary.—Members of the House of Representatives (453) receive £2oc a year, with allowance of £66 13s. for house See also:rent. See also:Italy.—Members of the Legislature receive no See also:payment, although attempts have been made from 1862 onwards to intro-duce payment of members. It was last brought forward in 1908, the amount suggested being 24s. for every sitting attended. See also:Japan.—Members of the House of Representatives (379) and non-hereditary members of the House of Peers receive £210 a year, besides travelling expenses. See also:Mexico.—Both senators (56) and representatives (340) receive $3000 a year. See also:Netherlands.—Members of the First Chamber (50) not residing in the See also:Hague receive 16s. 8d. a day during the session; members of the Second Chamber (See also:loo) receive £166 a year, besides travel-See also:ling expenses. See also:Norway.—Members of the Storting (123) receive 13s. 4d. a day during the session, besides travelling expenses. See also:Paraguay.—Both senators and deputies receive £200 a year. See also:Portugal.—Deputies have been unpaid since 1892, but deputies for the colonies, whose homes are in the colonies, receive £20 a month or 13s. 4d. a day during sittings of the Chamber, and £10 a month when the Chamber is not sitting. See also:Rumania.—Both senators (120) and deputies (183) receive 16s. 8d. for each day of attendance, besides free railway passes. See also:Russia.—Members of the Duma receive 21S. a day during the session, and travelling expenses. See also:Servia.—Deputies (120) receive 125. a day and travelling expenses. See also:Spain.—Members of the Legislature receive no See also:salary, but deputies on their See also:election receive a railway See also:ticket for 2480 M. travel. See also:Sweden.—Members of both the First Chamber (150) and the Second Chamber (230) receive £66 for each session of 4 months, besides travelling expenses. See also:Switzerland.—Members of the See also:State See also:Council are paid by the See also:canton they represent, and their salary varies according to the See also:wealth or liberality of the canton. The salary ranges thus from 12s. 6d. to 25s. a day, the See also:average of the whole being 16s. a day. Members of the See also:National Council (167) e paid from Federal funds. They receive As. 8d. a day for each day they are See also:present, with travelling expenses. (T. A. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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