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TITLE 4-FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES

Chap.Sec.
1.The Flag1
2.The Seal41
3.Seat of the Government71
4.The States101
5.Official Territorial Papers141
Table Showing Disposition of All Sections of Former Title 4
Title 4 Former SectionsRevised Statutes Statutes at Large
1R.S. §§ 1791, 1792
2R.S. § 1792
3Feb. 8, 1917, ch. 34 , 39 Stat. 900
4R.S. § 1793
5R.S. §§ 203 (first clause), 1794
6R.S. § 1795
7R.S. § 1796
8R.S. § 4798
9R.S. § 1836
10R.S. § 1837
11R.S. § 1838
12June 16, 1936, ch. 582, § 10 , 49 Stat. 1521
Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 7 , 54 Stat. 1060 .
13Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 1 , 54 Stat. 1059
14Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 2 , 54 Stat. 1060
15Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 3 , 54 Stat. 1060
16Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 4 , 54 Stat. 1060
17Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 5 , 54 Stat. 1060
18Oct. 9, 1940, ch. 787, § 6 , 54 Stat. 1060

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1951⁠—Act Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 11, 65 Stat. 713, added item for chapter 5.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Positive Law; Citation

This title has been made positive law by section 1 of act July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 641, which provided in part that:

“title 4 of the United States Code, entitled ‘Flag and seal, Seat of Government, and the States’, is codified and enacted into positive law and may be cited as ‘4 U. S. C., § —’ ”.

Repeals

Section 2 of act July 30, 1947, provided that the sections or parts thereof of the Statutes at Large or the Revised Statutes covering provisions codified in this Act are repealed insofar as the provisions appeared in former Title 4, and provided that any rights or liabilities now existing under the repealed sections or parts thereof shall not be affected by the repeal.