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charge that duty. The tellers appointed on 

 the part of the Senate and the House will please 

 take their seats." 



Senators Hamlin and Thurraan, the tellers 

 appointed on the part of the Senate, and Mr. 

 House and Mr. Crowley, the tellers appointed 

 on the part of the House, took their seats at 

 the Clerk's desk, at which the Secretary of the 

 Senate and the Clerk of the House also occu- 

 pied seats. 



The Vice-President : "I open the package 

 purporting to contain the certificates of elec- 

 tion of the State of Alabama, and hand those 

 certificates to the tellers to be reported." 



Senator Hainlin (one of the tellers) read in 

 full the certificate of the vote of the State of 

 Alabama, giving 10 votes for Winfield S. Han- 

 cock, of the State of Pennsylvania, for Presi- 

 dent of the United States, and 10 votes for 

 William H. English, of the State of Indiana, 

 for Vice-President of the United States. 



Mr. House (one of the tellers) then read at 

 length the certificate of the vote of the State 

 of Arkansas, and announced the electoral vote 

 of that State for President and Vice-President. 



Senator Thurman (one of the tellers) then 

 read the certificate of the vote of the State of 

 California, and announced the electoral vote of 

 that State for President and Vice-President. 



Mr. Reagan, of Texas: "Mr. President, I 

 suggest that, by unanimous consent of the 

 joint convention, the reading of the formal 

 parts of the certificates be omitted." 



The Vice-President : " That may be done by 

 unanimous consent, and was the course pur- 

 sued at the counting in 1857. Is there objec- 

 tion to the course suggested by the gentleman 

 from Texas?" [After a pause.] "The Chair 

 hears none, and that course will be pursued." 



Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont: "I would sug- 

 gest, in view of the unanimous consent that 

 has been given, that the tellers might examine 

 the certificates as to their formalities, and the 

 Chair could pass down in advance one of the 

 certificates in order that it might be examined 

 by the tellers, while one of the tellers is an- 

 nouncing the vote of the State preceding." 



The Vice-President: " The Chair will adopt 

 the suggestion." 



The tellers then proceeded to announce the 

 electoral votes of the States of Colorado, Con- 

 necticut, Delaware, and Florida. 



The Vice-President : " The Chair now hands 

 to the tellers the certificate of election of the 

 State of Georgia." 



Mr. Springer, of Illinois : " I call for the 

 reading of that certificate in full." 



The Vice-President: "The certificate will 

 be read at length." 



Mr. Crowley (one of the tellers) then pro- 

 ceeded to read in full the certificate of the vote 

 of the State of Georgia, but, before concluding, 

 Mr. Springer said, " Mr. President, I withdraw 

 my demand for the reading in full of the cer- 

 tificate of the State of Georgia." 



The Vice-President: "The further reading 



will be omitted, and the result of the vote will 

 be announced." 



Mr. Crowley (one of the tellers) then an- 

 nounced the result of the vote of the State of 

 Georgia, for President and Vice-President of 

 the United States. 



The Vice-President : " It appearing from the 

 certificates just read that the votes of the State 

 of Georgia were cast on a day other than that 

 fixed by act of Congress in pursuance of the 

 Constitution of the United States, the result 

 of those certificates will not be recorded until, 

 in the language of the concurrent resolution 

 under which the count proceeds, ' it shall ap- 

 pear whether the counting or omitting to count 

 such votes will essentially change the result of 

 the election.' When that fact shall appear, the 

 record will be made agreeably to the provisions 

 of the concurrent resolution." 



The certificates of the remaining States were 

 then opened, and the votes announced as they 

 appear in the following statement submitted by 

 the tellers : 



