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# 3 U.S.C. § 2 - Repealed. Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5233]

## Notes

Section, act June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 672, related to failure to make choice on prescribed day.