The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-19

Electors, in any manner it shall deem ex-
pedient. Every such determination made
pursuant to such law SO enacted before said
day, and made prior to the said time of
meeting of the Electors, shall be conclusive
evidence of the lawful title of the Electors
been appointed, and shall govern in the
counting of the Electoral votes, as provided
in the Constitution, and as hereinafter reg
ulated.
SEC. g.. 1t shall be the duty of the Execu.
tive of each State to cause three lists of the
names of the Electors of such State duly as
certained to have been chosen to be made
and certified, and to be delivered to the
Electors on or before the day on which they
are required by this act to meet.
SEC Congress shall be in session on the
second Monday in February succeeding ev-
cry meeting Of the Electors. The Senate
and House of Representatives at the hour
of one O'Clock in the afternoon on that day;
aud the President of the Senate shall be
their presiding officer. Two tellers shall be
previously appointed on the part of The
Senate and two on the part of the House of
Representatives, to whom shall be handed,
as they are opened by the President of the
| Senate, all the certificates and papers pur.
porting to be certificates of the Electoral
vo es, which certificates and papers shall be
opened, presented and acted upon in the
alphabetical order of the States, beginning
| with the letter A I; and said ~tellers, having
then read the same in the presence and
hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list
of the votes as they shall appear from the
said certificates; and the votes having been
ascertained and counted as in this act pro-
| vided, the result of the same shall be de.
| Iivered to the President of the Senate, who
shall thereupon the state of the
vote, and the names of the persons, if any,
elected, which announcement shall be
deemed a sufficient declaration of the per.
sons elected President and Vice-President
of the United States, and together with a
list of the votes, be entered IN the
journals of the two Houses. Upon
such reading of any such certificate or paper
the President of the Senate shall call for OBJ
jections, If any. Every objection shall be
made in writing, and shall state clearly and
concisely, and without argument, the
ground thereof, and shall be signed by al
least one member of the House of Repre-
sentatives before the same shall be received.
When all objections SO made to any vote OF
paper from a State shall have been received
and read, the Senate shall thereupon with.
draw, and such objections shall besubmitted
to the Senate for its decision; and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives
shall, in like manner, submit such OBJ.
jectio1s to the House of Representatives
for its decision; and no Electoral vote OF
votes from any State from which but one
return has been received shall be rejected
except by the affirmative votes OF both
Houses. II more than one return or papers
purporting to be a return from q State
shall have been received by the President
of the Senate, those votes, n those only,
| shall be counted which shall have been
regularly given by the Electors vino are
shown by the evidence mentioned in sec
ton 4 of this actt o have been appointed
but in case there shall arise the question
which of two or more of such State tribu.
malls, determining what Electors have been
appointed, as mentioned in section 4 Of this
act, is the lawful tribunal of such State, the
votes regularly given of those Electors, and
those only, from snch State shall be
counted whose title as Electors the two
Houses acting separately, shall concurrently
decide is supported by the decision of the
tribunal of such State so provided for by
its Legislature. And in such case of more
than one return, or paper purporting to be
a return, from a State, if there shall have
been nc such determination of the question
in the State as aforesaid, then those votes
and those only shall be counted which the
two Houses, acting separately, shall concu
rently decide to be the lawful votes of the
legally appointed Electors of such State,
| When the two Houses have voted, they
shall Immediately again meet, and the pre-
siding officer shall then the de
cision of the questions submitted. Nc
votes or papers from any other State shall
be acted upon until the objections pre-.
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any State shall have been finally disposed of
SEC. 7. That while the two Houses shall
be in meeting, as provided in this act, NJ
debate shall be allowed and no question!
shall be put by the presiding officer, excep
to either House on a motion to Withdraw
and he shall have power to preserve order
SEC. s. That when the W Houses sep
arate to decide upon an objection that ma.
have been made to the counting of an,
Electoral vote or votes from any State, o
other question arising in the matter, eacl
Senator and Representative may speak t
such objection or question five minutes
and not oftener than once; but after sue
debate shall have lasted two hours, it shal
be the duty Of the presiding officer of eac
House to put the main question without ful
Their debate.
SEC. 9. That at such Joint meeting of tn
l WV OubC cCht6 oDdA4 w ~ Az
lows: For the President of the Senate, tn
Speakers chair; for the Speaker, immedi
ately upon his left; the Senators, in tn
body of the hall upon the right of the pre-
siding officer; for the Representatives, il
the body of the hall not provided for tn
Senators; for the t%ellers, Secretary of tn
Senate, and Clerk of the House of Represer
t~atives, at the Clerks desk; for the othe
officers of the two Houses, in front of tn
Clerks desk and Upon each side of tt
Speakers platform. Such joint meetin
shall not be dissolved until the count of tn
Electoral votes shall be completed and tn
result declared; and no recess shall b
taken unless a question shall have arisen il
regard to. counting any such votes, or Other
wise, under this act, in which case it shall b
competent for either House, acting+sel
arately, in the name hereinbefore pre-
vided, to direct a recess of such House nc
beyond the next day, Sunday excepted, a
the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon
But il the counting OF the Electoral vote
and the declaration OF the result shall nc
have been completed before the fifth caller
dar day next AFTER such first meeting of tn
two houses, no further or other recess sha
be taken by either.
SEC. 10. That section 140 of the revise
statutes of the United States be, and tn
same is hereby, so amended that the word
" first Wednesday in January then next er
suing" be stricken out, and the word
1" secoud Monday next after their meeting
be inserted therein.
Sec. II. That section 14l of the revise
statutes of the United States be, and tn
same is hereby, SO amended that the word
" first Wednesday" be stricken out, and tn
words "on or before the day inserte
therein.
L IL. That sections 131, 1856, 1856, IA:
147, 14S, and 1i9 be, and the same ar
hereby, repealed.
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