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Show Iloir to Count tlie Electoral Vote. Washinton, IS. The bill intro duced by Knott, chairman of the judiciary ju-diciary committee, to-day, provides that at 12 o'clock meridian on the second Wednesday in February, 1S77, and upon the same day every four years thereafter, the house of representatives and senate of the United States shall assemble in the hall of tho house for the sole purpose pur-pose of counting the votes cast for & resident and vice president of the nited States. The joint assembly is to be organized, after which the president pres-ident ol the senate shall appoint a teller on the part ol the aeuate and the speaker of the house a teller on the part of the house, whereupon the president of the senate shall proceed to open the certificates of the electors oT the several states, opening first Ihe stated of the original thirteen and the others next in order of their admission into the Union, and shall declare the result if no objection is made to auy of the certificates. They shall be then be delivered to the tellers, who shall then record the vote. In case of objection on behalf of either the house or senate, the objection ob-jection shall be considered by the joint convention and the question shall be decided by a majority vote. When the count of the vote is concluded con-cluded tha president of the senate shall announce the result and declare the election of the persons having a majority of the votes counted by a joiut assembly. If there be no election elec-tion the joint assembly shall be dissolved. |