The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-06-25

on any bill, order, resolution OF vote,
10 which the concurrence of the House
of Representatives may We necessary,
except on question Of adjournment,
a vote shall be had by sections, and a
majority of tho Senators from each Sec
tion voting shall be necessary to the
passage of such bill, order or resolu-
tion, and to the validity ofevery such
vote
Sec. 3. Two of the electors for Presi.
dent shall be appointed by each State
in such manner as the Legislature
thereof may direct, for the State at
large. The other electors to which the
State may be entitled, shall be chosen
in the respective congressional districts
into which the State may, at the regu-
lar decennial period have been divided,
by the electors of each district having
the qualifications requisite for electors
Of the most numerous branch of the
State Legislature. A majority of all
the electors in each of the four sections
in this article established, shall be nee
essary to the choice of President and
Vice President: and the concurrence
of a majority Of the States of each Sec
ton shall be necessary to the choice Of
President by the House Of Representa-
tives, and Of the Senators from each
section to the choice of Vice President
by the Senate. whenever the right of
choice shall devolve upon them respect
lively.
Sec. 4. Tho President and Vice
President shall hold their offices du-
ring the term Of six years and neither
shall be eligible to more than one term
except by the votes of two thirds ofall
the electors of each section or of the
States Of each section, whenever the
right Of choice Of President shall de-
volve upon the House Of Representa-
tives, or Of the Senators from each sec
ton, whenever the right Of choice Of
Vice President shall devolve upon the
Senate.
Sec, 5. The Congress shall by law
provide for the case ofa failure by the
House of Representatives to choose a
President, and the Senate to choose a
Vice President, whenever the right Of
choice shall devolve upon them respect
lively, declaring what officer shall then
act 40 President. and such officer shall
be elected The Congress shall alsc
provide by law for a special election
for President and Vice President in
such case TO he held and completed
within six montha from the expiration
of tho torn ofoffice of the Last proceed
ing President, and to be conducted il
all respects as provided for in the Con
stitution for regular elections Of the
same officers, except that ifthe House
of Representative shall not choose {
President, should the right ofchoice de
volve upon them, within twenty day
from the opening ofthe certificates ant
counting Of the electoral votes, ther
the Vice President shall act as Presi
dent, as in the case ofthe death or 9th
er Constitutional disability ofthe Pres
ident, The term Of Office Of the Pres
ident chosen under such special elec
ton shall continue six years from tn,
} 4th day of March preceding such cleo
ton
ARTICLE XIV.
No State shall sccede without tn
consent Of the Legislatures Of all tn
3 States of the section to which the Stat.
proposing tosecede belongs. The Pres
ident shall have power to adjust will
seeding States all questions arising BY
reason oftheir secession; but tho term
: of adjustment shall be submitted to tn
Congress for their approval before tn
same shall be valid ....
ARTICLE
, Neither the Congress nora Territorial
Legislature shall have power to inter
| ferc with the right Of the citizens of an,
| Of the States within either of the sec
, tions, to the Territories of tho United
: States; nor shall either have power Il
destroy or impair any rights Of cithe
, persons property in Territories Now
States annexed for admission into tn
Union, or formed or erected within tn
/ jurisdiction Of other States, or by tn
junction of two or more States, or part
Of Statos, and the States formed witt
the consent OF the Congress out of an,
territory orthc United States, shall b
entitled TO admission uptn an cqua
) footing with the original States, unde
. any constitution cstablishinga govern
ment Republican in form, which th
8 people thereof may ordain, within a
areanot less than thirty thousandsquar
4 miles, having n population equal to tn
then existing ratio Of representation {
the House of Representatives.
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