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[CITE: 3USC13]

 
                         TITLE 3--THE PRESIDENT
 
             CHAPTER 1--PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES
 
Sec. 13. Same; demand on district judge for certificate

    When no certificates of votes from any State shall have been 
received at the seat of government on the fourth Wednesday in December, 
after the meeting of the electors shall have been held, the President of 
the Senate or, if he be absent from the seat of government, the 
Archivist of the United States shall send a special messenger to the 
district judge in whose custody one certificate of votes from that State 
has been lodged, and such judge shall forthwith transmit that list by 
the hand of such messenger to the seat of government.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 9, 
65 Stat. 712; Pub. L. 98-497, title I, Sec. 107(e)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 
Stat. 2291.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Pub. L. 98-497 substituted ``Archivist of the United States'' 
for ``Administrator of General Services''.
    1951--Act Oct. 31, 1951, substituted ``Administrator of General 
Services'' for ``Secretary of State''.


                    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 98-497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 
of Pub. L. 98-497, set out as a note under section 2102 of Title 44, 
Public Printing and Documents.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 14 of this title.
