---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4521"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4521"
heading: "Mode of payment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4521"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
  - "Part B — Administration"
---

# §4521. Mode of payment


The compensation of [Members](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) and Delegates shall be passed as public accounts, and paid out of the public Treasury.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 46.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 47 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 46 derived from acts Jan. 22, 1818, ch. 5, § 3, 3 Stat. 404, and Feb. 10, 1854, ch. 11, § 1, 10 Stat. 267.