The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-08-20
Dolitital.
From the Baltimore SUM-
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
The Manner Of Filling the Presiden-
tial Office in Every Contingency.

/ THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
The Manner Of Filling the Presiden
tial Office in Every Contingency.
Every Provision of the Constitution
! Of tile United States and the Anae1ad-
) alae1atS thereto and Of the Ac1S Of Con
) greSs, applicable to the Election q
tie President and Vice President oJ
: tie United States.
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
ART. II.
) Sec l. The executive power shall he
} vested in a President of the United
States of America. He shall hold his
Office during the term of four years, and,
together with the Vice President, chos-
en- for the same term, be elected as fol
lows:
Sec. 2. Each State shall appoint, in
may direct, a number of electors equal
to the whole number of Sena tors and
!, Representatives to which the State may
be entitled in the Congress; but no Sen
ator or Representative, or person hold
ing an Office of trust or profit under the
United States, shall be appointed an
elector.
SEC. 8. *.* [See amendment below,
art. IL.
SEC. 4. The Congress may determine
the time of choosing the electors, and
the day on which they shall give their
votes which day shall be the same
througout the United States.
Sec: $. No person except natural
born citizen shall be eligible to
the Office of President; neither. shall
any person be eligible to that Office who
shall not have attained to the age of
thirty FIVE years. and been fourteen
years resident of the United States.
Sec. 6. In case of the removal of the
| President from Office, or of his death,
resignation, or inability to discharge the
powers and duties of the said office, the
same shall devolve on the Vice Presi-
dent; and the Congress may by law
provide for the case of removal, death,
resignation or inability both of the Pres
ident and Vice President and such
officer shall then act accordingly until
the disability be removed or President
shall be elected.
AMENDMENT TO THE coNsFITUT1oN-
ART XII.
| Proposed hy two-t thirds of both
Il I0uses or Congress, -re-elrtiorr-o
October, 1903, and ratified by the Leg
islature of three fourths of the States,
before September, 1904, in accordance
with article 5th of the Constitution.
Section l. The electors shall meet in
their receptive States, and vote by bal,
lot for President and Vice Presd mt,
one of whom, at least, shall not be an
inhabitant of the same State with them
selves they shall name in their ballots
the person voted for as President, and
in distinct ballots the person voted for as
Vice President; and they shall make
distinct lists of all persons voted for as
President, and of all persons voted for
as Vice President; and of all the num-
Der of votes for each which list they
shall sign and certify, and transmit
sealed to the seat of government of the
United States, directed to the President
of the Senate; the President of the
Senate shall, in the presence of the Sen
ate and House of Representatives, open
all the certificates, and the votes shall
then be counted the person having the
greatest number of votes for President
shall be the President, if such number
be majority of the whole number OF
Electors appointed; and if no person
have such majority, then from the per
sons having the highest numbers, not
exceeding three, on the list voted for as
President, the House of Representa-
tives shall choose Immediately by bal
lot the President. But in choosing
the President, the votes shall be taken
by States, the representation from each
State having one vote a quorum for
this purpose shall consist of q member
or members from two-thirds of the
States, and majority of all the States
shall be necessary to choice. And il
the Honse of Representatives shall not
choose President whenever the right
of choice shall devolve upon them, be.
fore the fourth day of March next fol
lowing, then the Vice President shall
act as President, as in the case of the
death or other constitutional disability
of the President.
SEC. 2. The person having the great
est number of votes as Vice President
shall be the Vice President, if such
number be u majority of the whole num-
Der of electors appointed; and if no per-
son have majority then, from the
taco highest numbers on the list the
Senate shall choose the Vice President;
quorum for the purpose shall consist
of two-thirds of the whole number
of Senators, and majority of the
whole number shall be necessary to a
choice.
Sec. 8. But no person constitutional
ly Ineligible to the Office of President
shall be eligible to that of Vice Presi-
dent of the United States.
ACTS OF CONGRESS.
An Act to Establish q Uniform Time
for Holding Elections for Electors Of
president and Tace President Of the
United States IN all the States Of the
UMiOm-passed January %, 1916
ch. |,
The electors of President and Vice
President shall be appointed in each
State on the Tuesday nert after the first
Monday in the month Of Novem6er.
Provided, That each State may by law
provide for the filling of any vacancy
or vacancies which may occur in its col
lege of electors when such college meets
to give its electoral vote; and provided,
also, when any State shall have held an
election for the purpose of choosing cleo
tors, and shall fail to make a choice on
the day aforesaid, then the electors,
may be appointed on subsequent day,
on such manner as the State shall by
lay provide,