Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 5: PER DIEM AND MILEAGE OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 5

AMEND. 5. PER DIEM AND MILEAGE OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY
(CONST., ART. 5, § 16 AMENDED) .
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment amended Ark.
Const., Art. 5, § 16, which was subsequently repealed by
Ark. Const. Amend. 94. Amendment 5 was declared to have
been adopted by the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives on February 10, 1913 (see Acts 1913, p. 1525). The
vote for the amendment was 103,246 and the vote against
the amendment was 33,397.
See Berry v. Gordon, 237 Ark. 547 and 865, 376 S.W.2d
279 (1964), and State ex. rel. Purcell v. Jones, 242 Ark. 168,
412 S.W.2d 284 (1967), for discussion of implied repeal of
this provision by subsequent amendments.
Compensation, including per diem and mileage, of Gen-
eral Assembly members is now governed by Ark. Const.,
Art. 19, § 31.