...election of President and Vice-President of the United States, and the electoral votes having been opened by the President of the Senate in the presence of the two Houses of Congress and counted by the tellers appointed on the part of the two Houses, and it appearing that...

...affirmations shall be taken and subscribed by the governor, lieutenant-governor, and councillors, before the president of the senate, in the presence of the two houses of assembly; and by the senators and representatives first elected xinder this constitution, before...

...existed at the date of the passage of said act, to go into evidence aliunde the papers opened VOL. II. 29 by the President of the Senate in the presence of...regularly certified to by the Governor of the State of Lousiana, on and according to the determination and declaration of their appointment by the returning...

...Constitution and the law as it existed at the date of the passage of said act, to go into evidence aliunde, the papers opened by the President of the Senate,...regularly certified to by the Governor of the State of Louisiana, on and according to the determination and declaration of their appointment by the returning...

...for the commission " to go into evidence aliunde the papers opened by the President of the Senate, to prove that other persons than those regularly certified to by the governor " were appointed. With reference to the case of the elector alleged to have been disqualified, it was...

...were appointed."* First, they decide that it is not competent for them " to go into evidence aliunde the papers opened by the President of the Senate in the presence of the two Houses," that is to say the certificates of the electors : and second, they admit that they did go into evidence...

...the second Wednesday in February succeeding the meeting of the electors, the certificates shall be opened by the president of the senate, in the presence of the senate and the house of representatives, the votes counted, and the persons who shall fill the office...

...for four years, to commence with the 4th of March next" At the election of Thomas Jefferson, in 1801, "the President of the Senate, in the presence of the two Houses, proceeded to open the certificates of the electors of the States, beginning with the State of New Hami>shire;...

...provisions relating to diverse returns were as follows : "All such returns and papers shall be opened by him [the President of the Senate] in the presence of the two Houses, when met as aforesaid r and read by the tellers ; and all such returns and papers shall thereupon be...

...Constitution and the law, as it existed at the date of the passage of said act, to go into evidence aliunde the papers opened by the President of the Senate in...of Florida, in and according to the determination and declaration of their appointment by the Board of State Canvassers of said State prior to the time...