There hangs in my library a parchment which reads as follows:
Be it known, that the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, being convened at the city of Washington, on the second Wednesday of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, the under-written Vice-President of the United States of the Senate, did, in the presence of the said Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and count all the votes of the electors for a President and Vice-President of the United States: whereupon, it appeared that William Henry Harrison of Ohio, had a majority of the votes of the electors as President; by which it appears that William Henry Harrison of Ohio, has been duly elected President of the United States, agreeable to the Constitution, for four years commencing with the fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Senate to be affixed, this tenth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-one.
Rh. M. Johnson
Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.
By the Vice-President.
Andrew Dickens
Secretary of the Senate
The President-elect now receives no official notice of his election, nor any commission or certificate of the result of the count. He takes notice himself and presents himself on the 4th of March to take the oath of office.
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