Chapter XCI. to allow the State of California an additional Representative in the thirty-seventh Congress. June 2, 1862. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That as the census has neverCalifornia to have three representatives in the

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Chap. XCI.— An Act *to allow the State of California an additional Representative in the thirty-seventh Congress.* June 2, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That as the census has neverCalifornia to have three representatives in the thirty-seventh Congress. been reliably taken to the State of California until the year eighteen hundred and sixty, and as it appears that the said State had sufficient population to entitle her to three representatives in the thirty-seventh Congress, and as three representatives have been duly elected to the thirty-seventh Congress under the supposition that the said State was entitled to the same, as appears by the certificate of the Governor thereof, and as direct taxes have been apportioned to and paid by said State under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty, therefore the said State shall be allowed three representatives in the thirty-seventh Congress, and for that purpose the whole number of representatives is hereby increased one, until the beginning of the thirty-eighth Congress.

Approved, June 2, 1862.