Under the Act, effective as of January 1, 1964, each member of the General Court [...] receive seventy-eight hundred dollars for each regular annual session, the President of [...] and the Speak of the House of Representatives shall each receive the same amount as additional compensation, and the floor leaders of each of the major political parties in the Senate and House, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means and the Chairman and Vice-Chair of the committee of the House, shall each receive thirty-nine hundred dollars as additional compensation, to be paid as provided in the Act. After the same date the annual expense allowance is to be six hundred dollars for each member and the travel allowance is to be [...] cents per mile with a stated minimum and and alternative, and a member chosen to fill a vacancy or who resigns during a session is to be entitled to per diem compensation at the rate [...] for each annual session and to the allowances for travel and other expenses for the [...] his membership.

It is also provided that in addition to the compensation for the 1963 annual session the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House shall be paid thirty-nine hundred dollars [...] the floor leaders of each major political party in the Senate and House, the Chairman the Senate Committee on Ways and Means and Chairman and Vice-Chairman of that committee of [...] shall be paid twenty-nine hundred and twenty-five dollars and each other member shall be [...] nineteen hundred and fifty dollars. Each member shall also be entitled to an additional expense allowance of two hundred dollars for the calendar year 1963 and travel allowance [...] be at the rate of eight cents per mile with a stated minimum and an alternative for the [...] of the calendar year of 1963.