Chapter CLXX. in relation to the Election of Representatives to Congress by single Districts
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Chap. CLXX.— An Act in relation to the Election of Representatives to Congress by single Districts. July 14, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Representatives in Congress to be elected by single districts. That in each State entitled in the next and any succeeding Congress to more than one representative, the number to which such State is or may be hereafter entitled shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, equal in number to the number of representatives to which said State may be entitled in the Congress for which said election is held, no one district electing more This act not to apply to California.than one representative: *Provided,* That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the State of California so far as it may affect the election of representatives to the thirty-eighth Congress: *And provided, further,* That in the election of representatives to the thirty-eighth Congress from the Additional representative from Illinois may be elected from the State at large.State of Illinois, the additional representative allowed to said State by an act entitled “An act fixing the number of the House of Representatives from and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, may be elected by the State at large, and the other thirteen representatives to which the State is entitled by the districts as now prescribed by law in said State, unless the legislature of said State should otherwise provide before the time fixed by law for the election of representatives therein.
Approved, July 14, 1862.