[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6950]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               COMMUNICATION FROM THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE

  The SPEAKER laid before the House the following communication from 
the Clerk of the House of Representatives:

                                              Office of the Clerk,


                                     House of Representatives,

                                     Washington, DC, May 15, 2013.
     Hon. John Boehner,
     Speaker, House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Speaker: I have the honor to transmit herewith a 
     copy of the Certificate of Election received from the 
     Honorable Mark Hammond, Secretary of State of South Carolina, 
     indicating that, at the Special Election held on May 7, 2013, 
     the Honorable Mark Sanford was duly elected Representative in 
     Congress for the First Congressional District, State of South 
     Carolina.
       With best wishes, I am
           Sincerely,
                                                    Karen L. Haas,
                                                            Clerk.
       Enclosure.
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                      The State of South Carolina

                           By Her Excellency

  The Governor and Commander-In-Chief In and Over the State Aforesaid


               Certificate of Election for Two-Year Term

       To the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives

       This is to Certify Pursuant to South Carolina Code Sec. 7-
     17-330 that on this Seventh Day of May, 2013 Mark Sanford, 
     First Congressional District, was duly chosen by the 
     qualified electors of the state of South Carolina as 
     representative in Congress from said state to represent said 
     state in the House of Representatives of the United States 
     for the term of two years, beginning on the fifteenth day of 
     May 2013.
       Witness: Her Excellency our Governor Nikki Haley, and our 
     seal hereto affixed at Columbia, South Carolina this 
     fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, 2013.
     Nikki R. Haley,
       Governor.
     Mark Hammond,
       Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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