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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS FIRST SESSION, SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS ASCERTAINMENT AND COUNTING OF ELECTORAL VOTES Resolved by the Senate (the liouse of Representatives concurring), That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Monday, the 6th day of January, 1941, at 1 o'clock postmeridian, pursuant to the requirements of the Constitu- tion and laws relating to the election of President and Vice President of the United States, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer; that two tellers shall be previously appointed by the President of the Senate on the part of the Senate and two by the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter A; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and counted in the manner and according to the rules by law provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declara- tion of the persons, if any, elected President and Vice President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses. Agreed to January 3, 1941. JOINT MEETING Resolved by the hIouse of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the two Houses of Congress assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Monday, the 6th day of January 1941, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving such communications as the President of the United States shall be pleased to make to them. Passed January 6, 1941. January 3, 1941 [S. Con. Res. 1) January 6, 1941 [L. ('on. Res.1] Communications from the President. 4A BILL FURTHER TO PROMOTE THE DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES, February 6, 1941 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES" [H.Con. Res. 15] Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That, in accordance with paragraph 3 of section 2 of the Printing Act approved March 1, 1907, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, be, and is hereby, authorized and 995 Printing of addi- tional copies of House committee hearings. 34 Stat. 1012. 44 U. S.C. §154.

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