Chapter LXXI. *to extend the Time within which Persons elected to Office may take the Oath of Office prescribed in an Act entitled “An Act to admit the State of Texas to Representation in the Congress of the United States,” approved March thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy*
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CHAP. LXXI.— An Act *to extend the Time within which Persons elected to Office may take the Oath of Office prescribed in an Act entitled “An Act to admit the State of Texas to Representation in the Congress of the United States,” approved March thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy*. May 4, 1870.1870, ch. 39.*Ante*, p. 81. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Officers elect in Texas to have thirty days from April 30, 1870, to take and file oath of office.
That all persons duly elected to office in the State of Texas, and holding the proper certificate of such election, shall have thirty days from April thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, within which to take, subscribe, and file the oath of office prescribed in the act of Congress approved March thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the admission of the State of Texas to representation in the Congress of the United States. Approved, May 4, 1870.