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title: "1 U.S.C. § 104"
description: "Numbering of sections; single proposition"
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title_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
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status: "current"
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# 1 U.S.C. § 104 - Numbering of sections; single proposition

## Text

Each section shall be numbered, and shall contain, as nearly as may be, a single proposition of enactment.

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)