History of the United States Code
13 Feb 2021
Research
The Acts of Congress became the Revised Statues in 1878 which then became the United States Code organized into Titles in 19xx.
Revised Statutes of 1878: History up to 1878
Office of Law Revision Counsel
Table 3 List 1789-2020
Second Congress (Enter Volume 1 Page 239 to find The Presidential Election Act enacted on 1 March 1792)
Chapter 8. An Act relative to the Election of a President and Vice President of the United States, and declaring the Officer who shall act as President in case of Vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice President.
Section 1.
Section 2.
Section 3.
Section 4.
This Act was was Supplemented on 26 March 1804 in the Eighth Congress (see below).
Third Congress
Fourth Congress
4th Congress: Compensation for the riders delivering from Electors to President of the Senate
For compensation to persons employed in bringing votes to the seat
of government, for electors of the President and Vice President of the
United States, one thousand six hundred dollars.
Fifth Congress
Sixth Congress
Seventh Congress
7th Congress: Establishment of Ohio Territory and their qualifications for Electors
Eighth Congress
8th Congress Session 1 Chapter L page 295 1804 used by 1873 definition of Title 3 Section 1
Chapter L. An Act supplementary to the act intituled "An act relative to the Election of a President and Vice President of the United States, and declaring the Officer who shall act as President in case of Vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice President."
Section 1.
Section 2.
Section 3.
Section 4.
Ninth Congress
Tenth Congress
Eleventh Congress
Revised Statutes of 1873
Section 136. It shall be the duty of the executive of each State to cause three lists of the names of the electors of such State to be made and certified, and to be delivered to the electors on or before the day on which they are required, by the preceding section, to meet.
Research
Research past week or so uncovered these additional resources going back all the way to 3USC1.9 source in 2nd Congress 1792:
search page 1
Archive.org 1873 Rev Stat source
Section 136. It shall be the duty of the executive of each State to cause three lists of the names of the electors of such State to be made and certified, and to be delivered to the electors on or before the day on which they are required, by the preceding section, to meet.
Acts of 45th Congress
Wiki page for Revised Statutes
Acts of 6th Congress
Search page for House Counsel page
LOC Search page