e appointed on their part to conduct an
impeachment against any person, and are directed to carry articles of
impeachment to the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall immediately
inform the House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to receive
the managers for the purpose of exhibiting such articles of impeachment
agreeably to said notice.

II. When the managers of an impeachment shall be introduced at the bar
of the Senate and shall signify that they are ready to exhibit articles
of impeachment against any person, the Presiding Officer of the Senate
shall direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to make proclamation, who shall, after
making proclamation, repeat the following words, viz:

All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment,
while the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the Senate of the
United States articles of impeachment against -------- --------.

after which the articles shall be exhibited; and then the Presiding
Officer of the Senate shall inform the managers that the Senate will
take proper order on the subject of the impeachment, of which due notice
shall be given to the House of Representatives.

III. Upon such articles being presented to the Senate, the Senate shall,
at 1 o'clock afternoon of the day (Sunday excepted) following such
presentation, or sooner if so ordered by the Senate, proceed to the
consideration of such articles, and shall continue in session from day
to day (Sundays excepted) after the trial shall commence (unless
otherwise ordered by the Senate) until final judgment shall be rendered,
and so much longer as may in its judgment be needful. Before proceeding
to the consideration of the articles of impeachment the Presiding
Officer shall administer the oath hereinafter provided to the members of
the Senate then present, and to the other members of the Senate as they
shall appear, whose duty it shall be to take the same.

IV. When the President of the United States, or the Vice-President
of the United States upon whom the powers and duties of the office of
President shall have devolved, shall be impeached, the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States shall preside; and in a case
requiring the said Chief Justice to preside notice shall be given to him
by the Presiding Officer of the Senate of the time and place fixed for
the consideration of the articles of impeachment as aforesaid, with a
request to attend; and the said Chief Justice s