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fvnrrv rv. f,JH i V i i 1; 1:0. 4a nALEiGir, it. o. rniDAY, octobsii ic, icgd JJ AfcriA Carolina Gazette, ...J. ,VBtISI, 'WIHKlf, Mt ; LAWRENCE & LEMAY. TERMS. . -.niiirrfo, three dollars per annum one . if i Jnee. Subscriber in tther Stalci "'Lt be ttlowed to remain In artean lonrer fV, ear, and persona resident without this -ho may deaire to become eubseribere, ill be stried- repaired to pay the whole f the vear's subaeritrtion in advanee. i .ti,imsta, not eieeedinr fifteen line, 1Jeentlofech.eontinunce. )jsa 40 the Editor! mtrrttpfrrt-pM8T ir? From th" Fyeeille Observer . WrttJUL IMPROVEMENT MEET- At meeting of the citit-ens of Fay .tteville. at the Town Hall on Friday sist t'S o'clock PM rfot the par Jt of electing Delegate! to the Inter- a improvement Convention, to be ,ed in Salisbury on the Itth pf Octo next; nd for other purposes, on notion. Jamei Seawell. Esq. was call id to the Chair, and Tho. L. Hybart tquested to act as Secretary. , . I On motion of Louia D. Henry, Esq., t following motution was offered for (consideration of the meeting and a- . jmi inm MMii vi - -- Eilved, That a committee be appointed to to en adjourned meeting, the priees ot "&Fe.r Riir between Fayetteville and mlneton, and .Uo. .11 the ii.lorm.fon they if nroduee aaa mercnan'mo ua U in the United States nd elsewhere, od to " . ... tncether with 3ompratTe rpon .he nrioes. and the lWt Tft, ill information they ean procure, touerim T7 inmmeroiid advantages Of this rhrer,-mt the oiiion ol Fayetteville, for a Market town. iJTbe. following gentlemen were mp Wed a Committee under Ihe first Wlutioo, vi. L. D. Henry. .Thos. H, Cameron, and Edward- V . Wil- i n motion, the meetins adjourned to '...irdi next, at S o'clockP: M: T- LlH nT?,y, -r--SaltirJay,',8ept. SLU. The meeting assembled pursuant to idiottrnment. - . - M. Louis U. lienry, r.sn., , himmittee aDtxHnted under the reso- lation adopted by the'meeting"yeslefr j aiy, submitted the followitg Report, r which wae adopted: 1 ; , UEPORT. I Tha Hnmmittee aoDointed to report , this' adjourned meeting the pricet of trtasportatioo on we wps xer w i Ween FsyetteiHe and Wilmington f .u ail infarmktion the t can procure inching the i prices of transportation on IUII Roads, Canals and rivers; and to khibtt comparative views of the same; ilio, what advaniages me vape rwr jirer and the town of Fayetterille af-. ijfd for a wart of commerce Report, That the distance from Fayetteville Vwilmtngtomty Jsrtei!U).iiUM fades; that the prices of transportation nrodttce wriicnanciuaeaneoH lid to the Navieation Company, taken ranrlhe published, printed riter are I follows: . 'pfora Fayettevxue w wummgiotti lottoo, per bile, , - . , , SO eenta. flow, per bbl. . . . fobaeao, per hhd. . ' - I Raiinir a. bale of cottoo at SOO lbs., a Ihll f flour at 200 lbs., and a hhd. of Wicco at 1200 lbs. the price by the iJUIDI. lor luu miiea. t ' Cottoor7 2.3 eenti, or $1 53 for ton. flour, 7 S-3 do. . or 1 S3 , do. a An. or I 60 do. Average nrice per ton, inclusive of i . - . i . i . tall, of all nrodUce aou lonmge coiu- Wities. for the year ending; 31st May IRM tk n v from Freisht Book f Stesm Boatl and Naf igation Com pa- ij.tiz: r f-- . -Down, perton,' r" " " Vp, 1 r do. -' ' 3 lotbat.. down, a ton per 100 milet, eoit $1 SO IT in. , do. do. 3 80 putrkslon and v Hamburg Rail Road. Length. 135miiea. price , , ti. per tOO lbi. per 100 milea, or $7 for a ttfn. This is taken from the charter of ...the pmpsny. Mr. Uexier, m viyu pni eer ot the company, reports; that the ompsny expect to carry cotton . the hole route at 81 per bale, which 'mld be about ' Seti. pet-tOOlbi. per 103 milea, or $5 per ton, ktrpohl and Mancktmr Rail Road. 82 miles at'the rate of - - r '' per 100 Iba. per 100 milet, or $7 20 a ton. This' rate is taken from document on Steam Carriages, submitted to Congress, 1st session, page 24t. . 1 ,.h . i n i... n.!f II I unaware ana uuaaon uau wuu. . At the rate of about -1 U. per tOO Iba. per 100 milei, or $4 a Jon. This rate taken from the above doc't, 'js 259. ' :, BaUlmafeani Ohio RaiTRoad, Rite about .' ..- v . , per 100 Iba. per 100 milea, or $4 a ton. This your committee have from re- irf. r - . ' " I Pttmburg and-Roanoke Rail Road. ' Rates takeo from the printed rate cnmnanvl ' ttonbaeoo in hhdiiS u, 227 rt"jM S for W milea. Aerated, . . J e . . Wfc0e,,rI,r0l"33eU- ,er d0'. FbrperbbL --'' 35 . per do.' do. According to which, the first named 'tides woud cost oer 100 lbs. ' 4l eta, per 100 milea, or S 30 ton. --m, an no, 00. or ( uu. - j M, 29 do. do. or 5 80 do. , " : JEtit Canal. - ' , -: i"tt rate, 25 eta. iter do. do. or i a ton. 1 iw( aiauoeej 1 J eta. pero. or a a ion. Thi taken from Cono-rMsional doco-1 fnt above,' page 241 to 243. . Delaware- md Hudson- Can at- The tame as Erie Canal, taken from active document, ' . River from Cheraut to CharTiion. - Average price on tonnage eommoilitiet, 2.1 rrati per 100 Iba. tier 100 milet. or 3 55 a ton. Tbitiatkea Jrom-lle .published. printed rat. - 4 ' " River Roanoke, up and down Hbd, totMc6, t V 48 or t?. 4fi per ton, rating hhd. at tK) Iba. -Flour, bbl. 50 or J 00 per do, rating bbl. at 200 Iba, '. Cotton, bale, t 50 or 0 70 per do. rating bale atOOlha. ' , . ' ' ' . Comparative Viewt. 1 Fayetternte to "Wilmington, t! nw.-.ft 1 e ton Uamburg to Cbarlctton, R. tt'd, 13S do. t 00 do. , ' (The charter ratei.) . . .... m a.. Same, contemplated lowed raiei uu a ton uirerpoo! MancneKer, urn,- , 133 do. 40 do. t k I iL- -a- ' fair loreKiiini Petersburg and Roanoke, tak ing foregoing; rates for data, Delaware and Hudae K. KM, at $4 per 100 ll.i. 100 milea, Baltimore' and Ohio R. t'd, 133 do 10 TOdo. 133do. J sido. at aame rate aa laat. 133do.S 24 do. Erie Canal, takinr ilour at $37,.. . , 0, . : ton per 100 milea - JL J1!3 aJZ Another Comparative View. Cherew to fcherle.lon, atrerage ? , . . . 00 tnnnajc article! j r ' Roauuke river ar- on produce, ' 6 42 do. Another View. Fayetteville to VVilmjnton.--inckiduig freight It toll, a bale of eitton. 1.13 milet. eotti 3 eti. HambunrtoCharleiton, on Itail Road, in length ua inuci, a oaie nnna i. Another View of Freights. 5? J32 S3 ., a.--? 3,.., Supr, pr 100 lbt. 4 eta. 40 ctl. 3 ) ctt. 17 eti. Coffee, do., ,40. 34 . to,. Molaea, hhd. $V f , 7 f 1 50 Hoxeibleike.footlS 23 15 8 fUfrginfr, piece- fitt Ll 20- Wiiid'wgUsi.lOOMO 11 Antili, 100 Iba. SO 1 4J each IS From these data, it would sefctft, that the prices of transportation on the above Rail Roads, Canals and' Rivers, range from 150 to 500 per cenu.higher than on the Cape Fear.T Should tKe"irade of FayeUevillebeaugmented by im proved facilities of TnternarcommunT cation, it is obvious that the prices will betfiminfahedtfr neswJMr that threttect of a prosperous trade, is to increase the "competition among car riers:, which: of'Tourter lessens- -the orice of transportation. Next on the scoreofti challenge lor the Cape Fear, a compar ison witli the most favored navigation, whether canal or river. It is notori ous, that accidents involving a vast de traction of human life aod property, are daily occurring 00 our Southern and Western rivers; from aawyers, shoals, tempests, floods, bursting of steam boilers, &c , while on this river. tor the last twelve years, not an acci dent has occurred proceeding -purely from the navigation ot the river, r eflect ing humau'Jife, or seriously endanger ing property. - This remarkablejsemp tion ma, perhaps, be ascribed, partly to natural causes favoring the naviga tion, partly to this judicious operatiodl of the Cape Fear Navigation Company, and partly to the skitt and caution, em ployediUai.lhemanagemntoL.j)ur. steamboats. , Next itsi advantages. 00 the tcoreoCiedSwnrThe besUtest of this will be, by comparing it with the usual speed ot transportation; of produce on Rail Roadt., Our Steam boats, (one of which is rated .250 torn larger therefore, than the average rof our seaborn vessels have frequently, during the last aeason, performed their trips ''dowOHhe "rate :'oflfelimTeild, hour and up with heavy loads at seven and eight miles an hour, The Henri etta? lately fitted up with'a new Eu ginor on- an : improvetL princiileAwilj it ii tdenv-asse4xbft.hcxt,own- ers, who are gentlemen of high atand log, SKiil anu experience m ine uusi ness, perform her trips the ensuing sea son down in nine hodrs.nd tip in fif teen hours, a distance of 1 S3 miles; this your Committee have perfect con fidence in Steam "Engines on Rail roads, with their train of produce cars, loaded, from thirty five to fifty tons u- sually travel (indeed, very rarely have ever exceeded)" from ten to fifteen miles an hour. The Charleston -RU Road 'Company expect, when their mail it fairlv under way. that the Kn tW.willcaftj-IaejuUpM . .. . .i ... i. l. 1 produce .cars tnrougn oy y gt, which would be at aboutthe rate of ten miles an hour, the length being 133 miles.- Now, it is to be .recollected that our loaded Steamboats down, have the 'advantage of two powers, the cur rent ssn4ive steam power; and mat on their trips vp, "they can travel all night; this,' Engines on rait road cannot do, win? to the treat risk attending' the locomotive action of a roechan1cltt-nnr er under a vast momentum, in me dark. So thatTvhile the mtiv power on the rail road is ttationery, tne tame power on the river Is in regular pro gression. When, however; we unite . . ... r a .t . .1 It.. With thla) tne mrmer auivamagc,- met the;. aame given power on water will orooel or draw, a vastly greater amounl of tonnaee at one time, than the same !;iven power ott a 'rait roau, wiutu erence Engineers have computed is as great as six to one lo favour of the wa ter transportation,) it afford to our river, full compensation, we think, for the superior velocity ot rail road transportation, under . precisely the tame circumstances. 1 That is, admit tin that the velocity of rail road trans portation by steam power, under equal circumstances, is superior to the velo- cltr br steam fwwer1 of water IranaVnr." Ration. . In point,- therefore, of cheat,- ne$, expedition, tafdy nd the quan tum of tonnage borne, the Cape Fear, between this and Wilmington, maywe ry favourably compare with any rail f Oad or caoalt W Here then it a town r ear the centre of Jhe Stated with an easy access to the ocean, so cheap and o expeditious, that, comparatively speaking, we may sayrthat time, distance and expente are annihilated., If Fayetteville pos essea -these'; facilities- fur xommerce, and haa tnsrntalned thehiltfiiugft eve" ry adversity, local and general, what certain hopes of better days must await her, aod the State at large, under a commerce rendered prosperous by Rail Road .communications, which is sure to! improve and multtpiy-the facilities of uuc in evcrj iiireciion ana in an in finite ratio. ,iWhy may not Fayette ville become as la. ge & flourishing a ci ty as Atbtny, with a population of 25,000? Her distance from the ocean is about the same, 160 miles; her steam boats with their loaded tow boats. which can convey 400 tons, may lie a- long slda of ,Jhe. largest .vessel which enters the Port of Wilmington and load her for New York or Liverpool. The time and expense on the river, we hate shown, is now, or can be made com paratively nothing.. Like Albany, she is surrounded by a very poor country, with a rich back country. JBO or a 100 miles" oBT 'lTie answer is obvious; Albany was, made so bj .Rail Roads and Canals; and all Fayetteville wants is, a Rail Road communication, to af ford a cheap transit to her market. for the mines of azricultural'and mineral wealthv-ihat now-lie-unemployed -in our Western country. Unite her by a link of Rail Roadtf 80 miles, with the Yadkin, and as if by a charm, the wont is accomptisneu, inn norm Ca rolina will stand regenerated and pros perous. Une cooclusion must strike every reflecting; mind with irresistable torce--that this point, approximatinrthe centre of -the State, when reached, the ruuio ineace to me oceaa, can never ue supplanted or rivalled in point of rteapne8rexpeditiotrind safetyrby any enterprise whatever. 1 his would to a Kail Road from the Yadkin to the Cape rear, by making the stock ot the Com' pany permanently valuable; for, by consulting the ppinions of experienced Engineers (forjwtiich see Congression al Documents already-referred to, pa ges 237 to 247.) it will be seen that one of the greatest dangers to be ap prehended from the injudicious location of Rail Roads is, that when completed, the road with all its adjacent improve ments, through its whole line, may be supplanted by a rival enterprize more favourably located. . , -Again, as a harbour, Witmington possesses some eminent advantages Vessels of oononr mayioad t her wharves, and proceed to New York or Liverpool; her port anords the best as- sorted. carEolfoo Europe, ot any of our Sou thern Ports; every denomination ot bread stotttrm eluding Kice; every denomination ot naval stores, of the best quality, and every denomination at lumber ot the very best quality; in fact, there are but few articles of commerce that cannot here .be had. TbU port bas al ways, aod will torever present peculiar at tractions to the American cossling ves self, because it is a fresh water har bour, where the bottoms of vessels are exempt from the wonderful destruction occasioned by the salt water, worm. This advantage is incalculable, for the greater the amount of Wnigelhat ienters a port, the greatercompetilion lor Irelght; and the less the price for transport ing our produce abroad; besides the specie put in circulation lor repairs, outfits, &c, and the employment to our ship mechanics. In this flattering view of the advan tages which Fayetteville possesses, in respect to her position for tirade there is but one draw back; and as this docu ment ts-to meet the public eye, invit jng to itself candid examination and scrutiny of its facts and arguments, we 1 i i. ...... i ... lead the public from a right conclusion. In very -dry seasons, when the naviga tion of most of our Southern and Wee tern fivers is sutpenriedY the-nstiga-tion of this river is also suspended, for steamboats as large as those that, now navigate our river, drawing from three and a half to seven feet water; although, always, except in very uncommon sea sons, navigable . for tow boats. -This disadvantage, however,is not reme dial, and is alleviated by three coo siderations: -First, that it is suscepti ble of navigation the whole year, and in the tlryeat seasons,, by stesra boats of eighteen inches draft, such ss are now plying op the sluices of the Con necticut river, the Gennesse river, and for ilhe Isat Seft have navigated the Western Branch of the Susquehanoah through and beyond Ih range of the Allegaoy Mountains; fur which fact we refer to the Rail Road . Journal, vol.. 2, No. 37, .page 584 the dimensions of the boat there given are 95 feet length, 13 feet beam, draft 15 inches,,35 horse power. ; Se cond,' that when the navigation Ss sus pended by' i draught, it happens there is very little trade, the farmers being engaged in their croptt And third, that NrT'"rkin,cnniylvania and -biio, have in point ot wealth, population and pros perity, become the wonder of the age. anj that lor, lour months td the year, laaour ami commerce are suspended by the cold, frost, and ice; and when the . Spring breaks the Icy fetters nf their riversr the overwhelming torrent ueso ktfftveryj our disidvantazes sink into insienifi cance, when compared with these, is it not an encouragement to march oa and neper give up the thip? - - - - Respectfully" submitted, ' ;d:i,oiJiS.li,.llKNRY 7 -TH03. N- CAMERON.- EDWM) W. WILLKINGS. Oi motion of Dr. Cameron, it was Retnlved. That a Delegation eontiatiag- of twemjr .peraont, be appointed to repreaeat thia eoonty and town, in lh Suliiburr CooTeulioo, On motion, the following gentlemen were .appointed: L. Bothune, Chas. McAlis'er. Jon. Evans, Alex. Elliott, D iv. McNeill. G W. Holmes. Duo can McCormick. Wm. Murchisoo, Jon. SniUi, Dtvid Gitlit. Ed'd L..Wins low, C. P. Mtllett, L. I). Henry," Jos; B.ker, J. Seawell, Tho. J. Curtis, E W. Willkingt. Jno. H. Hill. Thomas 8twdfof,' Er Tr Htx'mmrr" Oq motion of John McRie, Esq 1QQ0 copies of the Report were ordered to tie printed. . On motion, the meeting adjourned. J, SEAWELL. Ch'in. T. L . H irn Amt See'y , - ' - - - - dmtntments to the Constitution.- The United States Telegraph of 4he 1st instant publishes the following propos ed-amendmerrts tohe-CtmstrttttmnfiriTcrshalt be waled arTdaec6iihredatr the United States. They were pre pared"(says tHe Telegraph by"6nc""ori our most distinniished legislators and jurists- one who, in the midst of party exclfement lias always Been" on 'the side of the people onewho has never been charged with any heresy of opi nion-and tlie. uprightness of: whose conduct -h- led hinTta the" highest trusts white it" protected him against aliimptttation pL?jnistcr .regtiye..". Amendment! to the Constitution of the United Statealqr theeoniideratiou of the Concreia, to ""be by tliera pronuaeifto the State, to be valid when ratified by the Lcgiilaturea of three- . fourth ol the aereral atatea, The people of the several States having the right of suffrage for the most numerous branch of their state Legislature, at elections to be holdeo periodically, commencing on the se cond Monday in September, next pre ceding the expiration of the term, for which the President and Vice" Presi dent last in . office, were elected, ex Icept in case of an election prior to the ordinary period as hereinafter provided, within their respective States, at the times and places, and in the manner prescribed by the legislature thereof, shairvotiB for i rpersoin for President of the United States, aod Tor another per son" for Vice President, of wh'onvone at least ih same ' State with themseJvejsTZlEiish. voter shall igmfythe person voted for as President, and the person voted for as Vice President. The persons in each State, charged by the Legislature thereof, with the duty ot conducting the elections and collecting the votes, shall make lists plainly showing all the persons voted tor as rrest-Jent and as Vice Presiden t, and the number of votes for each; which lists they shall sign, certify, and deliver to the person or per sons respectively authorized by tne Le eislaturs of the State to receive them J farjhe purpose of enomcratifis and as-. Certaining the aggrtgati'ndmbeof votes in such State for all persons, for President and Tor Vice President, and the aggregate number of votes for 'each. The persons so charged with such du ty, shall assemble at the time; and Filace appointed therefor by the Legis atureof the State aod then and there produce the said certified lists, and therefrom they shall make an aggregate list plainly showing all persons voted for as President and as Vice President, and of the whole nun-ber of votes for each person; and shall ascertain' the aersen-ns'beiiiaft-nBV received-!! f;reatest number of votes of such State or President, and the person who shall have received the greaiest nnm&er for Vice President.- ThT Legislatures of the States respectively shall provide by law for giriog the casting vote between two or more , persons standing highest in numbers, who shall be found to have received In equal number of votes of the-people of the Stale, either for rresideor or for vice President: and having so ascertained the person who has received the greatest number of votes of soch State for President, and who has received the greatest number of votes for Vice President, they shall make three distinct certificates under their hands, statinsr the person who has received' the greatest number of votes for President, and the person who has received the greatest number for Vice President.'. jrhe -Eiecutive of the State shall make known, under the seal of the State annexed to each cer- tiScate, that the persons certifying the result of the votes for President and Vice President, are "tn" persons there unto authorised by the law of the State. The persons so making the said certifi cates the votes, shall seal top each certificate separately, together with the verification of the Executive, noting on and scale aforesaid, shall be the Presi the envelope of each, that it contains dent, if such nembcr be a majority of and Jr'ice President: one of which cer tificates they shall direct to the Presi- dent of the Senate of the United Stats, and lrmi.mil it n l. ... , - t .1.. n.u i ,v 4 1U, uuT- in ih presence ot tnooenste and tlousa eminent of the United Stftiesbytrf meisenielci4 oy them, to be de-l failure of electing Presideist, the elec nvered to the President of the Senate tion shall be referred again to the peo at theaoat of G ivernment. or in his ah- pie of tha several States to choose be sence to the Secretary of the Senate, tween the Iwoperaon's hiving thehighest before the second Monday in Novem number of the electoral votes, ccor- bet, theo-next- asuigJ-ih- tnber-fdw to the reale aforesaid; and if epon ad certificates itirv sharrforthwuht forward, by the postoflke', lo the Presi dent of the Senate at the seat of Gov ernment of the United- States: the third they shall cause forthwith to be delivered to the District Judgt of the United States for the district wherein they shall be aasembled: if a certificatf of the vote of any" State shall not have been received at the seat of'Gotftrn meot on the said second Monday in November, the Secretary of the De partment of State shall tend a special messenger to iba District Judge in whose custody such certificate . shall have beeoi.idged, wh shall forthwith transmit it to. the scat of Government. The Congress ahall be in session on the said .second Monday in November; and if the certificates of the votes of all the State slull have been then receiv edtri President of the Senate shall. ?&Hf$t l-,oa,era prjicUJpC c1fctinrt.nf president, the 0;:;' cable'. in the presence of the Senate ami f the House of Representatives, open ail the certificates of the votes of the several States. The votes of the curding to the ratio of the Senators and Represen tati ves c o mbi nedr'trr-whlch each State ahall be then entitled in that Congress; the person having the greatest number of the votes of ihe piople of State Tor President,, shall be accounted as having the whole relative weight of nheelecf oralvoTOr such State, in like manner as if the voice of the- State had been ao-sini fied- at f r- mef1y7by a number tf electorstqual to uiu wiiuie nuinoer ot senators ami ucp resentativesto which Ihe Slate Sha'l be then' entitled, and such number of elec toral votes of such State shall be accord ingly act down & accounted forthatper son. rln like manner, the person hiv ing the greatest number of votes of the people of a State for Vice President, shall be accounted as havins recieved the whole electoral weight and vote of mat stale, according to the scale and ratio aforesaid. ; v.. The person havins the ereitest num ber of the electoral votes for President, according to the scale aiuresaid.nhall be declared elected, if that number be a majority of the whole number of the electoral votes, to which all the States shall then be entitled, according to the scale and ratio aforesaid. If no person shall have uch mainri ty for-Pmident, the Senate ihaH rte-; dare the; fact,! and. shall also declare the two persons havings the - highest nombersof the-!ectorat votes accnunti' iedyhe-waleandalionirofesaTd whereupon the Secretary of the Depart ment of State shall forthwith cause a notification to be made to the Execu tive of every State, that the election of President of the United States hss failed for the time, and shall also make known the two persons who received the highest number of the electoral votes as iforessid. and shall cause a publication thereof, without delay, in at least one of the newspapers punted in each State; specifying, also, that an election byJho people shall tie hidden to chpose. ooe the two persons having the higliesTnurnber ofelectoraliyotes lor President, to commence, on the se cond Monday In January then next en suing; and the people of the Several States shall accordingly, within "their respective States, tote at the places, and In the manner prescribed by the Legislature of the State, tor one of said two persons ss President; which votes shall be certified, collected, enumerat ed, and counted in each State as provi ded for by the Legislature thereof," ami the aggregate result shall be ascertain ed and signified, as before, in three leaJbjmftijfc A9 the Executive, and ahall be sealed and endorsed as herein before diree'ed The ooe they shall transmit to the Pre tident of the Senate at the seat of Gov ernment, bp a messenger by them se lected for that purpose, to be delivered to the President of the Senate, or in his absence to the Secretary of the Sen ate, before the twenty-seventh of Feb rosry then neat ensuing; one other" of said certificates they shall I or ward by the post office to tho President of the Senate, and the third they shall cause to be deposited with the District Judge of the United States ss before; to be seat for, if necessary, as before direct ed. t ' - , Unon the twenty-seventh or twenty eurhth daV of February, if the certifi cates of the votes of all the States shall have been: then received at the seat of Government, if not, then S soon there after as practicable, the Presided of th Senate shall, toihe presence tne Senate and the House of Representa tives, open the votes of all the States; tbey shall bo scaled and accounted ar cording to . the ratio aforementioned, and the person having the. greatest num ber; of the etectoraljrofiisjf the States fur President, according to the' ratio ..-....'. . V--. fV the States shall be then As often as upon counting the votes '.- ,i r .t . t presence i ate and House of Representatives, the nrst, second, or any successive vote of the people, (he direction to declare and make known the two burliest in number, will not literatlv annlv ami to which all entitled. ' define two persons only; but by reason ofan equality of electoral votes between two or morewill point to threeor more, -persons. mert flie Selste T shall declare 7 and make known , those three or more , so coming in competition, and included 0 within he spirit of the rule which seeks the two highest, by excludinrr the hin- dermost from the future election by , vue N)ie) anu in aaia utree or more - -persons ahall, as aforesaid, be made k'town to the Exicuttve of every State. ran i in the publications in the news ' papers before directed, at the persons ' from whttnt" it .Prestden'fis -.to be chosen. And upon every second or after failure great snail appoint and make known the time when the consequent elections by the people ' shall 'commence in every '""" State, w'hich. time shall be uniform throughout lhe"Uoited States; and alsoT appoint the time within ' which ' the ag gregT"ydf?Troni be certified and returned to the teat of the Government of the United States, and -the timi foropening nnd countinjrthe .vHellirejncittnt Senate and the 1 1 ouse of RepVcsefltiBirei."" t-:" 1 --r . Sec. 2, The person having the great est number f the electoral votes ol the States forVic" President," accounted according to ihe ratio, and scale before declared as to the election ofa presi dent, shall be - the Viee President. if -such number be a majority of the whole number of the electoral votes to which "the Stales "are-"then""'ehtilled as afore- said; but if no person have such majority for Vice President, and if the President , be elected, In that case, the Senate shall,' by ballot, choose a Vice President from v the three-who shall have received the , , greatest number' of electoral votes, A quorum for that purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of yen.. ators and a majority of the whole num- " . ber of Senators, to which all the States are entitled, atofir be necessary to a " choice,- ' " : - t i But if there be a failure or the dec" tion for President, and no person shall have av majority of all the electoral, votes accounted according to the scale Tadd "ratio aforesaid for Vice President, "T" in that case, the two persons having the , . highest number of votes for iViej ...Presi-L-. petition, by reason of an en ui lily of (he electoral ' votes betweep two or more , v then those three or more, so pointed to . "5 TnT comprehended within the spirit of the rule which ; seeks the two highest numbers, shall be ' made known to the Executive of every State, and by publi cations as aforesaid, so as to gtre no-. tiee to the people, of the persons from i whom they are to choose a Vice Pres). . dent; and; the votes for Vice President shall be accordingly taken, at the time appointed for choosing President, aod -be collected, enumerated, certified, and i iransmitted, to the seat f GoverDmenr of the United States. ;ias JieforeIrT v: -Jj. is Ainfteaiilhere sh ofan election by the people of the sete ; ral State, as well tn the office of PresU . dent as to that of Vice President also,", the election of Vice President shall again be referred to the people, along . with the election of President, to chouse a vice rretineat irom toe two persons...., having the highest number of votes, or ;' from three or more coming within the 7"' spirit of the direction as before explain Sr.c. 3. No person not ' eligible un" er-the -constitution -te- the - elDct-tifi- President. shall be eligible to the of fice of Vice President of the United " , " K States. :-; ; ;' : See. 4. The better io ensure du e lection of President And Vice Presi , dent before the fourth day. of March, and to render the elections, returns, and examinations of the. results more . convenient .to Ihe people 'and to tha -Congress, the limes before mentioned v for holding the elections may be chan- " " ged by lawi but In such chango the, commencement of the elections shall be the same throughout the U. States,- -and, tiie Congress may also, by law, determine the timet for returning the ' , certificates of the votes of the States to . thf seat if jOo'crnmoiif and the tlm e' for opening nd counting the cettili- cates in the presence of the Senate and , House of Representatives. - ' ' " Skc. 5.- i In case a Vice President- -shall be elected, and of a future to e lect a President by- the voies of , the people of the several States, the. Vice President fleet shall act as President -, until, a President shall be elected. In . cases of vacancies in the offices both of " President and Vice President,; by rear son of the failure of election before tho '"" I "4 4 I