Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 2 — Organization of Congress
§ 27. Change of place of meeting
Statutory text
Whenever Congress is about to convene, and from the prevalence of contagious sickness, or the existence of other circumstances, it would, in the opinion of the President, be hazardous to the lives or health of the members to meet at the seat of Government, the President is authorized, by proclamation, to convene Congress at such other place as he may judge proper.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 34.)
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 27
(R.S. § 34.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 34.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 34 derived from act Apr. 3, 1794, ch. 17, 1 Stat. 353.
Credits
(R.S. § 34.)