Any claimant to a seat in either branch of the General Assembly, who shall feel aggrieved by the decision of the court in his case, may present his petition to the proper house within ten days after the meeting of the General Assembly, or within ten days after the decision shall have been made in his case, if the General Assembly shall then be in session, setting forth his claim, which petition shall have appended thereto the affidavit of the petitioner, setting forth that he believes that he was duly elected to the seat, and that the statements set forth in his petition are just and true, to the best of his knowledge and belief.
25 P.S. § 3407