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 the vacancy in the Fifth congressional District occasioned by the failure of Orlando H. Brewster to attend:—The said Aaron B. Levisee and Orlando H. Brewster to were thereupon declared elected to supply the vacancies in the Fourth and Fifth Congressional Districts respectively, and being sent far soon after appeared and were in attendance as electors.

The said electors then proceededed to vote by ballot for President of the United States, when William P. Kellogg and Lionel A. Sheldon were appointed tellers, and upon counting the ballots for President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, of the State of Ohio, did receive eight votes for President of the United States, being all