Year: 1861

I The executive power shall be vested in Presi-
dent of Confederate States OF America he and the
Vice President shall hold their cces for the term oi
siy wears but the President shall be eligible
The Prt sident and Vice President shall be eieced Is
follows:


q Each Ssate shall appoint, in such manner as the
legislature thereof may direct, number Of electors
equal 10 the whole number of Senators and ReIresen


atives to which the State nay be entitled IN the Con
sress: but no Senator Representative, or person
holding an office of trust profit Under the Coneder
ate States shall be appointed an elector- ~.


g. The electors shall meet in their respective states
and vote by ballot for President and Vice President,
one of whom al least shall not be inhabtant Of
the same State with themselves; they shall Name IN
their ballots the person voted Tor Raesdeni and an
distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President,
and they shall make distinct lists of all pereons voted
for as President, and OF ali persons voted for as Vice
President OF the number OF votes for each which
list they shall sign and certify and transmit, scaled,
-, ta ysvernme1t Of the Confederate States directed
To the President of the Senate; the President of the
Senate SHALL in the presence of the Senate and House
of Representatives., open all the certificates and the
vote shaII then be counted; the person having the
greatest number OF votes for President shall De the
President if such number be majority OF the nhoe
number OF electors appointedi and 10 person nave
such majority then, from the persons having the
highest Numbers not exceeding three, on the list OF
those voted for President, the House Of Represen
tatiyes shall choose Immediately, by ballot, the Prl
dant Rut IN choosing the President the vote shall be
taken by States, the representation from each State
having vote; quorum ior TINS sAii CON
sist of n member or members from twothirds of The
states and majority of all the States shall be neces
s.ry 10 choice And if the House Of Representatives
nof
choice shall devove upon them before the fourth day
of March next following, then the Vice President shall
act as President in case of the death or other con
sttutional disability u the President


A. The person having ihe greatest number OF votes
as Vice President shall be the Vice President, such
number be a majority Of the whole number OF elect
ors appointed: andn person have malority, then,
from the highest numbers on the list the senate
shall choose the Vice President; quorum for the par
pose shall consist of twothirds of the whole number
Of Senators, and majority of the Whoie number shall
be necessary 10 q choice


Of President shall be eligible 70 that Of Vice President


g. The Congress may determine the time of choosing
the electors and the day which they shall give their
votes; which day shall be the same throughout the
Z. No person except a natural born citizen Of the
Confederate States, citizen thereof lime OF
the adoption of the Constitution, citizen Thereof
born in the United States prior the 10th OF Dsce-
Der, $780, shall be eligible The Office of Presidents
neither shall any person be eligible 10 thai office who
shall not have attained the OF thirty nye yeas
and been fourteen years resident within The ninis
Of the Confederate States they may exist al Inc
time OF his election.


s. In case OF the removal Of the President from Of
ice or of death, resignation, inabliiy 70 ts
charge the powers and duties of the said Office, the


same shall devolve the Vice Presidents and the CoI-
gress may, by law, proviee for the case OF removal
DEATH resignation inasity both Of the President
and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then
act as President and such officer shall according
until the disability be removed or President shall be
g. The President SHALL al stated times receive for
hs services compensation which shall neither be IN
creased diminished during the period for which h'
shah have been elected and he shall receive with


in that period any other emolument from the Conied
l crate States, or any of them


10. Before he enters the execution Of his o1ice


ne shall take the following osth or .nirn.iion:


fully execute shs oce u President Of the Confederst


States and will, 70 the best Of my ability, preserve


psosacts ssnd defsna The Consultation thsrsoi."