habitant of the same State with themselves. They vote for President and Vice President separately, by distinct ballots. They make lists of the number of votes given, and of the persons voted for; which they transmit sealed to the seat of the General Government, directed to the Presi dent of the Senate, who in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, opens all the certificates, and the votes are counted. The person hoving the greatest number of votes for President is duly elected if such number be a majority of all the Electors appointed.

If no person have such majority, then from the persous having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, in the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose, immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President the votes are taken by States, the Representation from each having ONE vote; a quorum for this purpose consists of a member or members from two thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States is necessary to a choice.

If the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice devolves upon them, before the fourth of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the Pesident..

The period of service is four years, but there is no restriction as to reelection. If the offices of President and Vice President should both be come vacant, it then becomes the duty of the Secretary of State to com municate information thereof to the Executive of each State, and to cause the same to be published in at least one newspaper in every State, giving two months previous notice that Electors of President shall be appointed or chosen in the several States, within thirty-four days bext preceding the first Wednesday in December ensuing, when the choice of President must proceed as usual. The eleventh Presidential term will expire with the twenty-second Congress, on the third of March, 1833.

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

JOHN C. CALHOUN, of South Carolina, $5,000, per annum.

The Vice President is, ex officio, President of the Senate; and as President of the Senate, in virtue of an act of the 8th of May, 1792, one of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. His salary of 5,000 dollars per annum, is fixed by the Act of 18th of February, 1793 The Vice President is not a member of the Cabinet. The ordinary duties of this officer is, to preside in the Senate of the United States. When he does not offi ciate in that station his place is supplied by a President of the Senate pro tempore, who is chosen from the body of Senators by ballot, and receives additional compensation for his services.

The Vice President is elected in the same manner, at the same time, for the same term, and by the same Electors, as the President But if no person has a majority of the whole number of Electors, then from the two highest numbers in the list, the Senate chooses the Vice President; a quorum for this purpose consists of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole is necessary to a choice.

No person, constitutionally ineligible to the office of President, is eligi ble to that of Vice President of the United States.

ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.

An Election of President and Vice President of the United States, for the Twelfth Term, (from March 4, 1833, to March 4, 1837,) was made on Wednesday, December 5, 1832, by the following Electors, who were chosen for that purpose in the several States:

Rowland H. Bridgeham. Ephraim Fletcher.

*Were prevented by sickness from meeting the Electors; Maryland, therefore, gave but eight votes.

Indiana.

¡George Boon. Mark Crume. Thomas Givens.

Missouri.

John
John Hume.