Notes on 2 U.S.C. § 7 : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on 2 U.S.C. § 7 : US Code - Notes

(R.S. Sec. 25; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, Sec. 6, 18 Stat. 400; June 5,
1934, ch. 390, Sec. 2, 48 Stat. 879.)
CODIFICATION                           
R.S. Sec. 25 derived from act Feb. 2, 1872, ch. 11, Sec. 3, 17
Stat. 28.
The second sentence of this section, which was based on section 6
of the act Mar. 3, 1875 and made this section inapplicable to any
State that had not yet changed its day of election and whose
constitution required an amendment to change the day of election of
its State officers, was omitted.
AMENDMENTS                            
1934 - Act June 5, 1934, substituted "3d day of January" for
"fourth day of March".
CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS                     
The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides:
"The terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on
the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have
ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their
successors shall then begin."
Time for election of Representatives, see Const. Art. I, Sec. 4,
cl. 1.