3 USC 2 & 15

[Edward Hartnett]

Quoting "Richard D. Friedman" <rdfrdman at UMICH.EDU>:

> At 02:30 PM 11/22/00 -0500, Ed Hartnett wrote:
> >1) Does anyone have any idea the kind of situations Congress had in
> mind in
> >enacting 3 USC 2?  Political upheaval?  Natural disasters?
> Technological
> >failures?  Uncertainty about the outcome?
>
> My guess is they were talking about Florida 2000.  I have a broader
> question -- does anybody know when the statute was passed, and where
> its
> legislative history may be found?  I understand it was passed in
> response
> to the legislative vacuum that existed in1876, but I don't know when --
> except that it was codified in 1948.
>
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I don't have legislative history cites handy, but the cite for the statute
itself is Act of February 3, 1887, ch. 90, 24 Stat. 373.

Ed Hartnett