Salary
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SALARY. A reward or recompense for services performed.
2. It is usually applied to the reward paid to a public officer for the
performance of his official duties.
3. The salary of the president of the United States is twenty-five
thousand dollars per annum; Act of l8th Feb. 1793; and the constitution,
art. 2, s. 1, provides that the compensation of the president shall not be
increased or diminished, during the time for which he shall have been
elected.
4. Salary is also applied to the reward paid for the performance of
other services; but if it be not fixed for each year, it is called
honorarium. Poth. Pand. h.t. According to M. Duvergier, the distinction
between honorarium and salary is this. By the former is understood the
reward given to the most elevated professions for services performed; and by
the latter the price of hiring of domestic servants and workmen. 19 Toull.
n. 268, p. 292, note.
5. There is this difference between salary and price; the former is the
reward paid for services, or for the hire of things; the latter is the
consideration paid for a thing sold. Lec. Elem. Sec. 907, 908.