---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1a"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1a"
heading: "Election to be certified by governor"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Election of Senators and Representatives"
---

# §1a. Election to be certified by governor


It shall be the duty of the executive of the State from which any Senator has been chosen to certify his election, under the seal of the State, to the President of the Senate of the United States.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 18.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 18 derived from act July 25, 1866, ch. 245, § 3, 14 Stat. 244.