{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/s27","title_num":"2","num":"§ 27.","heading":"Change of place of meeting","status":null,"guid":"iddd4d43e8-0974-11f0-acfd-82f4bd9597b0","source_credit":"(R.S. § 34.)","seq_in_title":21,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch2","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2","level":"title","num":"Title 2—","heading":"THE CONGRESS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch2","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 2—","heading":"ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id42969f81-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t2/s27\"><num value=\"27\">§ 27.</num><heading> Change of place of meeting</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whenever Congress is about to convene, and from the prevalence of contagious sickness, or the existence of other circumstances, it would, in the opinion of the President, be hazardous to the lives or health of the members to meet at the seat of Government, the President is authorized, by proclamation, to convene Congress at such other place as he may judge proper.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id42969f82-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\">(R.S. § 34.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id42969f83-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id42969f84-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I76\" topic=\"codification\" id=\"id42969f85-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Codification</heading>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">R.S. § 34 derived from <ref href=\"/us/act/1794-04-03/ch17\">act Apr. 3, 1794, ch. 17</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/1/353\">1 Stat. 353</ref>.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"119-4","currency_date":"2025-03-15","congress":119,"law_num":4,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":352,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","06","07","08","14","16","18","20","22","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"119-4","currency_date":"2025-03-15","congress":119,"law_num":4,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":352,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","06","07","08","14","16","18","20","22","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}