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 1=01zr·Y-NINT11 oonennss. sees. II. os. 90. 1887. 373 _CHA.P. 90. —A¤ act to fix the day for the meeting of the electors of President and Feb. 3, 1887. Vice-Presiden t, and to provide for and regulate the counting of the votes for Presi· 4 dent and Vice-President, and the decision of questions arising thereon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United counting ,,k,m,_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the electors of each State ral vote. shall meet and give their votes on the second Monday in January next Mutiug of ¤l¤¤- following their appointmeut, at such place in each State as the legisla- "°;§‘S so 135 ture of such State shall direct. 22, ,,,,{g,,d:h_ ’ P' Sec. 2. That if any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to Determination of the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its iinal determine- ¤<>¤¢¤¤¤ by _ SUM tion of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or gz; gg ,:)°&°°';f:"; any of the electors of such State. by judicial or other methods or pro- mem of ,,]B£3,,s_ eedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time iixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to the said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned. Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the executive of each State, as Certification of soon as practicable after the conclusion of the appointment of electors •>l¤<=*¤¤‘§ by SUM in such State, by the iinal ascertainment under and in pursuance of the °x°"‘m'°· laws of such State providing for such ascertainment, to communicate, under the seal of the State, to the Secretary of State of the United States, a certilicate of such ascertainment of the electors appointed, setting forth the names of such electors and the canvass or other ascertainment under the laws of such State of the number of votes given or cast for each person for whose appointment any and all votes have been given or east; audit shall also thereupon be the duty of the executive of each State to deliver to the electors of such State, on or before the day on which they are required by the preceding section to meet, the same certiticate, in triplicate, under the seal of the State; and such certiileate shall be inelosed and transmitted by the electors at the same time and in the same manner as is provided by law for transmit- B. S., mc.140, p. ting by such electors to the seat of Government the lists of all persons 23- voted for as President and of all persons voted for as Vice-President; and section one hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes is R. S., see. 136, p. hereby repealed; and if there shall have been any final determina· 22, r<>1>¤=¤l¤d· tion in a State of a controversy or contest as provided for in section two of this act, it shall be the duty of the executive of such State, as soon as practicable after such determination, to communicate, under the seal of the State, to the Secretary of State of the United States, a certificate of such determination, in form and manner as the same shall have been made; and the Secretary of State of the United States, as soon Certitlcatestobo as practicable after the receipt at the State Department of each of the P¤bl*¤h°d· certificates herein before directed to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, shall publish, in such public newspaper as he shall designate, such certificates in full; and at the first meeting of Congress there- Copies to he sent after he shall transmit to the two Houses of Congress copies in full of *0 C¤¤K¤¤¤- each and every such certificate so received theretofore at the State Depertinent. Sec. 4. That Congress shall be in session on the second Wednesday Counting elecin February succeeding every meeting of the electors. The Senate and mm "°”°*m C°“‘ House of Representatives shall meet in the Hall of the House of Rep- $"”‘ resentatives at the hour of one deloek in the afternoon on that day, R. S., sec.142, p. and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer. Two 23- tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, O c n in and as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates mdgug ,,,5.,m_ and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which cares or electoral certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in vote-