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The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
es that all the States, in the month of January next, before the expiration of the Presidential term, shall present candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency, the free States for the one office and the slave States for the other, as they may be respectively entitled to one and the other office; and shall certify, severally, to the two Houses of Congress and to the Supreme Court the names of the persons so chosen, and for which office they have been chosen; and on the first Monday in February following, the Supreme Court, in the presence of the two Houses of Congress, shall select from the persons whose names have been certified for the Presidency a President, and then a Vice-President from the names which have been certified for that office; the Justices of the Supreme Court to be ineligible to any other office. The fourth provides that the President shall have power to remove from office the heads of the State, Treasury, Navy, War and Interior Departments, the ney-General,