United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 2
[Obsolete.]
Chap. II.—An Act concerning the apportionment of representatives in the state of Alabama.[1]
From the 3d day of March next, the state of Alabama to have three members in the House of Representatives, agreeably to the Act of March 7, 1822, ch. 10.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, the state of Alabama shall have three members in the House of Representatives, in the Congress of the United States, it appearing, from the returns of the marshal of Alabama, deposited in the office of the Secretary of state of the United States, that the said state of Alabama at the passage of the act, entitled “An act for the apportionment of representatives among the several states, according to the fourth census,” approved March seven, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, was entitled to the number of three representatives, according to the population of the said state, and the ratio established by the said act.
Approved, January 14, 1823.
- ↑ By the Act of March 2, 1819, ch. 47, Alabama was authorized to form a state government for admission into the Union. By resolution of December 11, 1819, Alabama was admitted into the Union.