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Title 4 - Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States
Chapter 1 - THE FLAG (§§ 1 - 10)
Section 2 - Same; additional stars
THE FLAG - 4 U.S.C. § 2 (2012)
§2. Same; additional stars
On the admission of a new State into the Union one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.)
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