The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-11-22

-lce fs''ct-lisis OF Massachusetts, have pursit.
co ~ y course, as TO the Presidential Elect.
on, whor'i WAS 10 have been expected TO i.
serve 20 themselves the right OF elec,in.- Elsc
tors, iLcy nave, lst. excluded the neop,e from ali
share in the election, although Coy Sullivan had
assured them, that there WAS s.ss:i cient time tor
tb's purpose and 2diy. they have virtually -y.o-
lated theirstats constitution, by depri,in the 20
reilior OF his constitutional powers. According
To the G.. n. S. 80 each state (is to) apoo;rt in
such manner AS the Legislature thereof may Iii.
rect, an,i,n5er-of electors, &c.n-Accorsiing to
The constitution OF Massachusetts, "no BID or
'esoirr, of the Senate, or II. of r. shall become
aiaw, and have force rs such, until it shall have
been laid before the governor for his revisal"-
To elies has power in the present case, the Fete-
raiists have forborTe to call the act Designating
the manner OF appointment, either, bill or re.
solse. They adopt new name and call it am o..
aey--Is there any important act of Legislation,
which they might not sInuggle in, similar way /
Enquirer.
Massachusetts II. z. Nov. IL.
The following Orter. 81 the Legislature, pre- scrib
ing the manner OF appointing Electors of Pr i :
dent and Vice President, having passed the Sem
ate-feas %, Nays II, came down for concur
renee. REPORT:
1t is hereby ordered and directed by the .er;s
laturc of the Commonwealth of 6fassach,lss,t.
That on the l4th day OF November instant at four
o'clock IN the afternoon, the Senate and House
o, Representatives. will meet in convention and
by JOINT ballot, elect and appoint NrNErEEND er
sens as Electors of President and Vice President
o. the United States, not being Senator's or Re-
presentatyesin the Congress thereof, or persons
hoitiing any office of trust or profit under said u
mted States, one of whom at least shall be an in.
haptant OF each district which is assigned for thu
ChoIce OF Representatives. i'll the Congress of the
United States And whereas it NAV so happen
that one or more Of the Electors soelected or APP
pointed, may be prevented by death, sickness, re-
signston or otherwise, from attending ON the
trst Wednesday of December next. TO give in
.'-ir VOTES II IS further ordered and directed,
tat the said Electors appointed by this esrisIa-
lure DC, and they are hereby directed to meet at
me state house IN Boston, on Tuesday the sixth
Gay OF Oecenl6ern next, at 10 o'clock in the fore
hoon' Tor the purpose OF supplying such vaca-
lbs. IFS tiio me sand Electors who may then and
there be present, are hereby empowered to fill
up All vacancies which siay happen as aforesaid,
ny electlng by ballot, from the people at sIarpe
SO many suitable persons eligible by the constitu-
non, tor electors of President and Vice President
OF the United States, as may be necessary to sup
ply such vacancies, and to declare the person or
persons so appointed by said electors present. &
empowered as aforesaid or the major part of
mem, to be elector or electors of President and
vice. PRESIDENT oftIe United States, duly appon
teu ler the purpose and certify the same to the
executive authority of this Commonwealth. that
LIE persons so appointed may be entitled to the
certificate of their appointment And it is here.
ny further directed, that the said electors shall
meet at the state-house in Boston, on the first
wednesday of December next, being the seventh
day OF said month, and vote by ballot, for presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United States !;
and make distinct lists of alpersons voted for as
PRESIDENT and Vice President, and of the mum,
per OF votes for each, which lists they shall sign
Ahd certify and transmit sealed to the seat of go
Ycrnment or tal fafae
provisions of the constitution and law thereof
And the secretary ofthis commonwealth is here
by directed to transmit, without delay, to each e:
fector who may be appointed in manner aforesaid.
certificates OF his appointment. And the execu.
tive authority ofthis commonwealth is hereby re-
quested to cause the list of said Electors to be
made, certified and delivered to the .conforna y.
bly, to the provisions of the law of the u States
. This Order was postponed for subsequent