cancies in the offices both of President
and Vice-President," approved March 1, 1792.]

Sec. 2. _And be it further enacted_, That the electors shall meet and
give their votes on the said first Wednesday in December, at such place
in each State as shall be directed by the legislature thereof; and the
electors in each State shall make and sign three certificates of all the
votes by them given, and shall seal up the same, certifying on each that
a list of the votes of such State for President and Vice-President is
contained therein, and shall, by writing under their hands or under the
hands of a majority of them, appoint a person to take charge of and
deliver to the President of the Senate, at the seat of Government,
before the first Wednesday in January then next ensuing, one of the said
certificates; and the said electors shall forthwith forward by the
post-office to the President of the Senate, at the seat of Government,
one other of the said certificates, and shall forthwith cause the other
of the said certificates to be delivered to the judge of that district
in which the said electors shall assemble.

Sec. 3. _And be it further enacted_, That the executive authority of
each State shall cause three lists of the names of the electors of such
State to be made and certified, and to be delivered to the electors on
or before the said first Wednesday in December, and the said electors
shall annex one of the said lists to each of the lists of their votes.

Sec. 4. _And be it further enacted_, That if a list of votes from any
State shall not have been received at the seat of Government on the said
first Wednesday in January, that then the Secretary of State shall send
a special messenger to the district judge in whose custody such list
shall have been lodged, who shall forthwith transmit the same to the
seat of Government.

Sec. 5. _And be it further enacted_, That Congress shall be in session
on the second Wednesday in February, 1793, and on the second Wednesday
in February succeeding every meeting of the electors, and the said
certificates, or so many of them as shall have been received, shall then
be opened, the votes counted, and the persons who shall fill the offices
of President and Vice-President ascertained and declared agreeably to
the Constitution.

Sec. 6. _And be it further enacted_, That in case there shall be no
President of the Senate at