Chapter 154. To amend section twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes, relative to the apportionment and election of Representatives
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CHAP. 154.— An Act To amend section twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes, relative to the apportionment and election of Representatives. February 14, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Representatives in Congress.Use of voting machines in elections for, authorized.[R. S., sec. 27, p. 5](/us/rs/s27/p5), amended. That section twenty-seven, of the Revised Statutes of the United States of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be amended so as to read as follows:
" “All votes for Representatives in Congress must be by written or printed ballot, or voting machine the use of which has been duly authorized by the State law; and all votes received or recorded contrary to this section shall be of no effect.” " Approved, February 14, 1899.