Chapter CCXXXIX. *supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act for the Apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth Census.”*May 30, 1872.1872, ch. 10.*Ante*, p. 28. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemb
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CHAP. CCXXXIX.— An Act *supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act for the Apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth Census.”*May 30, 1872.1872, ch. 10.*Ante*, p. 28. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, One additional representative in Congress to each of certain States;That from and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the following States shall be entitled to one representative each in the Congress of the United States in addition to the number apportioned to such States by the act entitled “An act for the apportionment of representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth census,” approved February second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to wit :
New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, and be elected by separate districts, as in said act how may be elected to forty-third Congress.directed : *Provided*. That in the election of representatives to the forty-third Congress only, in any State which by tliis law is given an increased number of representatives, the additional representatives allowed to such State may be elected by the State at large, unless the legislature of said State shall otherwise provide before the time fixed by law for the election of representatives therein.
Approved, May 30, 1872.