                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
           CHAPTER 1--ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
 
Sec. 8. Vacancies

    The time for holding elections in any State, District, or Territory 
for a Representative or Delegate to fill a vacancy, whether such vacancy 
is caused by a failure to elect at the time prescribed by law, or by the 
death, resignation, or incapacity of a person elected, may be prescribed 
by the laws of the several States and Territories respectively.

(R.S. Sec. 26.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 26 derived from act Feb. 2, 1872, ch. 11, Sec. 4, 17 Stat. 
28.


                        Constitutional Provisions

    Vacancies in the House of Representatives, see Const. Art. I, 
Sec. 2, cl. 4.
