Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-08-21

Vice President, if such number be major
iiy Of the whole number OF Electors appoint
ed; and if no person have majority, then
from the fro highest numbers on the list the
Senate shall choose the Vice President a
quorum for the purpose shall consist Of two
thirds of the whole number of the Senate,
and majority of the whole number shall
be necessary to choice.
Sec. 8. But no person constitutioualy in
eligible to the office of President shall be
eligible to that of,Vice President of the u
nited States.
ACTS OF CONGRESS.
I'm .4ct 10 establish a Unifnm m Time for Hold
ing Elections for Electors of President and
Vice President Of the United States IN all
the SAFES in the Union. Passed January
%, 1945-ch. /.
The electors Of President and Vice Presi-
dent shall be appointed in each State, on the
Tuesday nert d(ter the first Monday in the
month Of .Norember in the year in which
they are to be appointed: provided, that each
State may by law provide for the filling of
any vacancy or vacancies which may oc-
cur in its college of electors, when such COL
lege meets TO give its electoral vote; and
provided, also, when any State shall have
held an election for the purpose Of choosing
electors, and shall fail to make choice on
the day aforesaid, then the electors may be
appointed on a subsequent Gay, in such man.
ner as the State shall by law provide.
I'm Act Relating, TO the Election of q Presi-
dent and Tice President of The United
States, and declaring the Officer rho shall
act as President in case of Vacancies in
the Offices both of President and Nce Pres
idert. Passed March l, 1892, ch. 8.
Sec. l. Electors shall be ap-
pointed in each State, for the election Of
President and Vice President of the United
States, which cleo
tors shall be equal to the number of Sena-
tors and Representatives to which the seve-
raj States may by law be entitled al the time
when the President and Vice President thus
to to be chosen should come into office; pro.
Uided dlpays, that where no apportionment
of Representatives shall have been made
after any enumeration at the time of choos-
ing electors, then the number of electors
shall be according to the existing apportion-
ment of Senators and Representatives.
See. 2. The electors shall meet and give
their votes on the first Wednesday in De-
cember, at such place in each State as shall
be directed by the Legislature thereof, and
the electors shall make and sign three GER
tifcates of all the votes by them given, and
shall seal up the same, certifying on each
that list of the votes for President and
Vice President is contained therein, and
shall, by writing under their hands, OF un-
der the hands of majority of them, appoint
a person TO take charge of and deliver 10 the
President of the Senate, at the seat of Gov
ernment, before the first Wednesday Of Jan
uary next ensuing, one of the said certif-
Gates, and the said electors shall forthwith
forward by the post Office 10 the President
of the Senate, at the seat of Government,
one other Of the said certificates; and shall
forthwith secure the ether the said oertif.
Gates, to be delivered 10 the Judge of that
district in which the said electors shall as
semble.
Sec. 8. The Executive authority of each
State shall cause three lists of the names Of
the electors to be made and certified and 10
be delivered to the electors on or before the
said first Wednesday in December, and the
electors shall annex one of the said lists to
each Of the lists of their votes.
Sec.4 If list of any votes from any
State shall not have been received at the
seat of Government on the said first Wed
nesday in January, that then the Secretary
of State shall send special messenger to
the district judge in whose custody such list
shall have been lodged, who shall forthwith
transmit the same to the seat Of Govern
ment.
Sec. 5. Congress shall be in session
" on the second Wednesday in Fsbrl-
dry succeeding every meeting Of The electors,
and the said certificates, or so many of them
as shall have been received, shall then be
opened and the votes counted, &c.
[See Constitution, article XII, above
Sec. 6. That in case there shall be no
President of the Senate at the seat of Gov
ernment on the arrival of the person intrtst-
ed with the lists of the votes Of tie electors,
then such person shalt deliver the lists ol
The votes in their custody into the office oil
the Secretary of State, to be safely kept and
delivered over as soon as may be to the
Presidentof the Senate.
Sec. 7. [See Act of Congress of 1925
ch. 8, &c. below
Sec. 8. If any person appointed 10 deliy