The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-01-25

are OpeIeu ny lIle L ftSlueIb VI thC oSh
ate, al! the certificates and papers purl
porting to be certificates of Electoral
votes, which certificates aud papers shall
be opened, presented aud acted upon ID
the Alphabetical order of the states,
beginning with the letter A. And SAID
rellers having her read the same IN
the presence and hearing OF the W
Houses, shall make a list of votes as
they shall appear fropf said certificates.
and the. votes having beeu Gscertained
and counted as in this act provided, the
regult of the same shall be delivered to
the President of the Senate, who shall,
.%thereupon, announce the state OF the
vote and the names of the persons, If
any, elected, which announcement shall
be deemed q sufi .ient declaration q
persons elected President and Vices
President Of the United States, and,
together with Il list of the votes, shall
be entered on the journals of the W
Houses. Upon such reading of any
such certificate or paper, when there
shalt be only n return from a State,
the President of the Senate shall call
for objections. if any. Every objection
Shall Dt llatlC III "IItliS, hht pAH''
state clearly and conclnsively, and
without argument, the gr )und thereof,
and shall be signed by at least one SEN
ator ana one member OF the House Of
Representatives before the same slall
be received.
When all objections 50 nal, to any
vote or paper from the State shall have
been received and read, the Senate
shall, thereupon, withdraw. and such
! objections shall be submitted to the
Senate for its decision, and the Speaker
OF the House of Representatives 1;alt
in like manner, submit subj objections
to the House of Representatives for IT'S
decision, and no Electoral vote, or votes,
from any State from which bnt u re
turn has been received. shall be object
ed to, except by the affirmative vote of
the two Houses.
When the two Houses have voted,
they shall Immediately again meet, and
the presiding officer shall then an
nounce the decision of the question subs
mittel.
Sec. 2. That if more than one return,
or paper. %purporting to be Il return
from a State shall have been teceived
by the President Of the Senate. pur-
porting to be certificates of the Elector-
al votes given at the last preceding
election for President and Vice-Presi-
dent in such State, unless they shall
be duplicates OF the same return, all
such returns and papers shall be open
ed by him in the presence of the two
Houses, when met rs aforesaid, and
read by the Tellers, aud ali such returns
and papers shall thereupon be submit
ted 10 the judgment and decision, as to
.%wlict' is the true aud lawful Electoral
vote of such State, of a Commission,
constituted as follows-namely: Dnr
ing the session of eacL House on the
Tuesday neyt Preceding the first Tues
! day in February, 1877, each House shall,
by n riud Uoce vote, appoint five of its
members, who, with five Associate
Justices Of the Supreme Court of THE
United States, to be ascertaincd as
hereinafter provided, shall constitute a
Commission for the decision Of all
questions upon or in respect Of such
double returns named in tits section.
On the Tuesday next preceding Che first
.Ttesday in February, A. ID. 1877, or
as soon thereafter as may be, the
Associate Justices Of the Su-
preme Court of the United States,
now assigned TO the First, Third.
Eighth, aud Ninth Circuits, shall Sc
lect, in such manner as the majority OF
them shall deem fit, another of the Is
ISOLATED Justices of said Court, which
five persons shall b. members of said
Commission, AMI the person longest IN
Commission ofslid five Justices shall b.
President of said Commission. Mem
bers Of said Commission shall respec
! tttnHssl88 a t4ke and sn subs. Is sd t2 i E4 EHTSa
or affirm, as the case may lie, tItat Will
1impartialiy examine anil consider all
questions submitted to the Commits
sion of which am Il member, and a
true judgment give thereon, agreeab!y
to the Constitution AMI laws 50 help me
God" Which oath shall be filed with
the Senate. When the Commission
shall have been thus organized it shall
not be in the power or either House to
dissolve the sane; OF 90 withdraw any
of its members; but if any such Senator
or member shall die or become physl-
cally unable to perform the duties re
qnired by this act, the fact of such
death or physical inability shall be, by
asaid Commission before it shall, proceed
further, communicated to the Senate or
House of Representatives, as the case
may he. which bodies shall. Immediate
ly ana WITHOUT debate, proceed, by ric0
Doce vote, to fill the place 50. vacated.
and the person 50 appointed shall. take
and subscribe to the oath hereinbtfore
prescribed and become a member of said
Committee. In like mHnner if any OF
said Justices of the Supreme Court shall
die, or become physically incapable of
performing the duties required by this
act, the other of said Justices, members
of said Commission, shall Immediately
sappoint another Justice of said Court
a member OF said Commission, and in
such appointments regards shall be hal
! to iuipartiality and freedom from bias
sought by the original appointments t'
said Commission, who shall thereupon
iinmediatelv take and subscribe to the
oath hereinbefore prescribed. and be-
come a member of said Commission t.
fill the vacancy so occasioned. All GER
tifcates and papers ~purportin9 to be
certificates of the Electoral votes of each
State, shall be opened in the alphabe~
lticaI order of States, as provided III
section 1 of this act, and when there
shall be more than one such certificate
or paper, rs the certificates and papers
from such State, shall SO be opened, ex-
cepting duplicates of the same return,
they shall be read by Tellers, AMI there
upon the President of the Senate shall
call for objections, if any. Every oblec-
ton shall be made in writing. and sh'll
state clearly and conclsely and with;
out argument the ground thereof, atd
shall be signed by at least II Senator
and one member of the House of Re-
representatives. before the same shall be
received. When all such objections so
made to any certificate, vote or paper
from a State shall have been received and
read. all such certificates. votes and
papers so objected to, and all papers
accompanying the SAME, together with
such objections. shall be forthwith sub
n!itted to said Commission, which shall
proceed to consider the same with the
same powers. if any, now possessed for
that purpose by the two Houses acting
ca,or,ta1v or topether and by q ma