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Title 3 — The President

Chapter 1 — Presidential Elections and Vacancies

§ 10. Sealing and endorsing certificates

Statutory text

The electors shall seal up the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors, and certify upon each that the lists of all the votes of such State given for President, and of all the votes given for Vice President, are contained therein.

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.

  1. The President

    Pub. L. 80–644 · 62 Stat. 672

    Enacted · 3 U.S.C. § 10

    June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674

  2. Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2023

    Pub. L. 117–328 div. P title I § 106(b) · 136 Stat. 4459

    Substituted · 3 U.S.C. § 10

    Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors” for “the certificates so made by them”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors” for “the certificates so made by them”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 106. Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent a grant recipient from deterring child pornography, copyright infringement, or any other unlawful activity over its networks.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors” for “the certificates so made by them”.

Credits

1948–2022 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674
  2. 2022Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 106(b), , 136 Stat. 5236.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 106(b), , 136 Stat. 5236.)

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