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The History of the Department of State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Extract

Perhaps the most important of the occasional duties of the Department of State is that which involves its agency in recording the result of the quadrennial elections held in the several States for the office of President and Vice-President of the United States. Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution provided that the electors should meet in the several States, and, having voted for a President and Vice-President, should make a list of the persons voted for, which they must sign and certify to and transmit sealed to the seat of government directed to the President of the Senate.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1910

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References

1 1 Stat., 239.

2 2 Stat., 295.

3 5 Stat., 721.

3a 25 Stat. 613.

4 Dept. of State, Miscl. Letters.

5 Dept. of State, Domestic Letters.

6 24 Stat., 373.

7 24 Stat., l.

8 1 Stat., 241.

9 Dept. of State, Miscl. Letters.

10 Dept. of State, Miscl. Letters.

11 Annals of Cong., Vol. 1, p. 424.

12 Annals of Cong., I, pp. 87, 88.

13 Documentary History of the Constitution, II, 330.

14 Documentary History of the Constitution, II, 373.

15 Messages and Papers of the Presidents, I, 71.

16 Documentary History of the Constitution, II, 405.

17 Messages and Papers of the Presidents, I, 260.

18 Documentary History of the Constitution, II, 451.

19 3 Stat., 439.

20 Documentary History of the Constitution, II, 783.

20a 15 stat. 709.

21 Documentary History of the Constitution, II, 893.

21a 16 Stat. 470.

22 World’s Fairs from London, 1851, to Chicago, 1893, (Norton) 41.

23 22 Stat., 116.

24 World’s Fairs, (Norton) 52.

25 26 Stat., 62.

26 See Report of Benj. P. Johnson, Agent of the State of New York, appointed to attend the Exhibition o* the Industry of all Nations in London, 1851.

27 12 Stat., 328.

28 14 Stat. 347.,

29 20 Stat., 245.

30 Reports of Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878, Vol. I, introduction.

31 Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Universal Exposition of 1889, I.

32 Report of Paris Com’r, i, xvii.

33 35 Stat., 183.