The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-08-20

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President and Vace President. Pas
sed March /, 1892, ch. 8.
Sec. |. Electors shall be
appointed in each State for the election
of President and Vice President OF the
United States, which
electors shall be equal to The number Of
Senators and Representatives to Which
the several States may by law be en-
titled at the time when the President
and Vice President thus to he chosen
should come into Office 2'rOUiaed al
p0ays, that where no apportionmcnt of
| representatives shall have been made af-
ter any enumeration at the time of choos-
ing electors, then the number of electors
be according to the existing apportion-
ment of Senators and Representatives.
SEC. 2. The electors shall meet and
give their votes on the first Wednesday
IN December, at such place in each State
as shall be directed by the Legislature
thereof, and electors in each State
shall make and sign three certificates of
all the votes by them given, and shall
seal up the same, certifying on each that
list of the votes for President and
i Vice President is contained therein, and
shall, by writing under their hands, or
under the hands of a majority of them,
appoint person to take charge of and
deliver to the President of the Senate,
at the seat of government, before the
first Wednesday Of January neat en-.
suing. one of the said certificates, and
the said electors shall forthwith forward
| by the post-office to the President of the
| Senate, at the seat of Gov ernment, one
of the said certificates; and shall forth
with secure the other of the said certifi-
Gates to be delivered to the judge of that
district in which the said electors shall
assemble.
SEC. 3. The executive authority of
each State shall cause three lists of the
names of the electors to be made and
certified and to be delivered to the cleo
tors on or before the said first Wed'ies-
day IN December, and the electors shall
annex one of the said lists to each of
the lists of their votes
Sec. A. If list of votes from any
State shall not have been received at
the seat of government on the said first
Wednesday in January, that then the
Secretary of State shall send a special
messenger to the district Judge in whose
custody such list shall forthwith trans
nit the same to the seat of government.
SEC: 5: t0ugrcss shalt De IN session
on the second Wednesday IN
February, succeeding every meeting of
the electors, aud the said certificates or
so many of them as shall have been re-
eeived, shall then be opened and the
votes counted. sc. TSee
Constitution, article XII, above.
| SEC. 6. That in case there shall be
no President of the Senate at the seat of
government on the arrival of the person
intrusted with the list of the votes
of the electors, then such person
shall deliver the lists of votes in their
custody into the Office of the Secretary
of State, to be safely kept and delivered
over as soon as may be to the President
of the Senate.
Sec. 7. [See Act of Congress of
1925, ch. 9, &c, below
Sec. 8. If any person appointed to
deliver the votes of the electors to the
President of the Senate, shall, after ac-
cepting of his appointment, neglect to
perform the services required of him by
this act, he shall forfeit the sum of
$1,000.
Sec 9. In case of removal, death,
resignation, or inability both of the
President and Vice President of the U.
States, the President of the Senate, pro
| tempore, and in case there shall be no
President of the Senate, then the Spea-
ker of the House of Representatives,
for the time being, shall act as Presi-
dent of the United States until the dis
ability be removed, or a President shall
be elected.
Sec. 10. Whenever the Offices of
President and Vice President shall both
become vacant, the Secretary of State
shall forthwith cause notification there
of to be made to the Executive of every
State, and shall also cause the same to
| be published in at least one of the news
papers printed in each State, specifying
that electors of the President of the
United States shall be appointed or
chosen in the several States, within
thirty four days preceding the first
| Wednesday in December then next en-
suing,1 provided, there shall be the
space of two months between the date
of such notification and the said first
Wednesday in December; and if the
| term for-which- the President and Vice
President last in Office were elected shall
not expire on the third day of March
next ensuning, then the Secretary of
State shall specify in the notification
that the electors shall be appointed or
chosen within thirty four days preced-
ing the first Wednesday in December
in the year next ensuing, within which
time the electors shall accordingly be
appointed or chosen. And the electors
shall meet and give thcifOotes on the
said first Wednesday in December, and
the proceedings and duties of the said
electors and others shall be pursuant to
the directions prescribed in this act
TNote.-The lines in brackets in the
above section are perhaps superseded by
the words on the Tuesday mert after
the first Monday IN the month Of No
vena6er," by the act of l645, ch. |, which
see above"
Sec. IL. The only evidence of re-
fusal to accept, or of resignation, of
the Office of President or Vice President,
shall be an instrument in writing declar-
ing the same, and subscribed by the per-
son refusing to accept, or resigning, as
the case may be. and delivered into the
Office of the Secretary of State.
Sec. IL. The term of four years, for
which President and Vice President
shall be elected, shall in all cases CON-
mence on the fourth day of March sue
ceeding the day on which the votes of
the electors shall have been given.