Salary

a reward or recompense for services performed. It is _ usually applied to the reward paid to a public officer for the perform. ance of his official duties. The salary of the president of the United States is twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, Act of 18th Feb. 1793; and the constitution, art. 2, s..1, provides that the compensation of the president shall not be increased nor diminished, during the time for. which he shall have been elected. 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 honorium. Poth. Pand. h. t.