 | South Carolina, Joseph Brevard - 1814 - 620 pages
...representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted: the person having the greatest number of votes for president, shall be president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 736 pages
...and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter; and the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall,...certificates and returns, and the electoral votes of the districts shall be thereupon counted. The person having the greatest number of votes of the electoral... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 734 pages
...and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter; and the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall,...certificates and returns, and the electoral votes of the districts shall be thereupon counted. The person having the greatest number of votes of the electoral... | |
 | Basil Hall - Atlantic States - 1829 - 444 pages
...and transmit, sealed, to the seat of government of the United States. The person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have such majority, then from the persons... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1833 - 264 pages
...persons voted for as President and Vice President ; and declares that the person having the .greatest number of votes for President shall be President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and thnt the person having the greatest number of votes... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1835 - 718 pages
...and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter; and the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall,...thereupon counted. The person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of votes... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1835 - 662 pages
...and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter; and the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall,...returns, and the electoral votes of the States shall he thereupon counted. The person having the greatest numher of votes for President shall he President,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1835 - 720 pages
...on the same day in every fourth year thereafter ; and the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall,...certificates and returns, and the electoral votes of the Stales shall be thereupon counted. The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 128 pages
...Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted ; the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons... | |
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The president of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for president shall be president, if such number... 
