Title 4. FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES, United States Code

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Title 4. FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES

Chapter 1. THE FLAG

Chapter 2. THE SEAL

Chapter 3. SEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT

Chapter 4. THE STATES

Chapter 5. OFFICIAL TERRITORIAL PAPERS

Enacting

This title was enacted by act July 30, 1947, ch. 389, § 1, 61 Stat. 641

Miscellaneous

Current through 113-100+u1

Amendments

1951—Act Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 11, 65 Stat. 713, added item for chapter 5.

Codification

Positive Law; Citation

This title has been made positive law by section 1 of act July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 641, which provided in part that: “title 4 of the United States Code, entitled ‘Flag and seal, Seat of Government, and the States’, is codified and enacted into positive law and may be cited as ‘4 U. S. C., § —’ ”.

Repeals

Section 2 of act July 30, 1947, provided that the sections or parts thereof of the Statutes at Large or the Revised Statutes covering provisions codified in this Act are repealed insofar as the provisions appeared in former Title 4, and provided that any rights or liabilities now existing under the repealed sections or parts thereof shall not be affected by the repeal.

Disposition Of Sections

Table Showing Disposition of All Sections of Former Title 4
Title 4 Former Sections	Revised Statutes Statutes at Large	Title 4 New Sections
1	R.S. §§ 1791, 1792	1
2	R.S. § 1792	2
3	Feb. 8, 1917, ch. 34, 39 Stat. 900	3
4	R.S. § 1793	41
5	R.S. §§ 203 (first clause), 1794	42
6	R.S. § 1795	71
7	R.S. § 1796	72
8	R.S. § 4798	73
9	R.S. § 1836	101
10	R.S. § 1837	102
11	R.S. § 1838	103
12	June 16, 1936, ch. 582, § 10, 49 Stat. 1521	104
	Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 7, 54 Stat. 1060.
13	Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 1, 54 Stat. 1059	105
14	Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 2, 54 Stat. 1060	106
15	Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 3, 54 Stat. 1060	107
16	Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 4, 54 Stat. 1060	108
17	Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 5, 54 Stat. 1060	109
18	Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 6, 54 Stat. 1060	110