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[CITE: 4USC2]

 
       TITLE 4--FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES
 
                           CHAPTER 1--THE FLAG
 
Sec. 2. Same; additional stars

    On the admission of a new State into the Union one star shall be 
added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on 
the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission.

(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5 of this title.
