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Title 4 — Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States

Chapter 3 — Seat of the Government

§ 73. Same; removal from seat of Government

Statutory text

In case of the prevalence of a contagious or epidemic disease at the seat of government, the President may permit and direct the removal of any or all the public offices to such other place or places as he shall deem most safe and convenient for conducting the public business.

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. 4 U. S. C., § —

    Pub. L. 80–389 · 61 Stat. 641

    Enacted · 4 U.S.C. § 73

    (July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)

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Credits

(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)

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