The preceding TABLES in pages 40-44, were furnished for the National Calendar, by William Lambert, esq. Mathematician of this City. 1824. EXECUTIVE. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. JAMES MONROE, of Virginia, $25,000 per annum. [The President must be thirty-five years of age, fourteen years a resident of the United States, a natural born citizen, or a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. In case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability, the duties of his office devolve on the Vice President: and, by act of the 1st March, 1793, in case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of President and Vice President, the President of the Senate pro tempore; and in case there shall be no President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being, is to act as President. The legal title of this officer is The President of the United States; and he is, by the Constitution, Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the service of the United States. He receives embassadors and other public ministers; and it is his duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. He is empowered, with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the Senators present, to make treaties; and, by and with the advice of a majority of the Senate, he appoints embassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers established by law, whose appointments are not otherwise provided for in the Constitution, and the appointment of whom, when for an inferior nature, is not vested by Congress in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. He commissions all officers of the United States; and may grant reprieves and pardons, except incases of impeachment. The compensation of the President is 25,000 dollars per annum, which cannot be increased or diminished during the term for which he is elected. His salary was fixed by act of 18th February, 1793. He, as well as the Vice President, is elected by Electors in the respective States, who are chosen as the Legislatures of the severa! President of the United States. States may provide. According to an act of Congress, of the 1st of March, 1792, the choice of these Electors must be made within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday of December, of the year in which an election of President and Vice President takes place; and they must be equal in number to all the Senators and Representatives in Congress : but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, can be appointed an Elector. The votes for President and Vice President are given by the Electors on the first Wednesday of December, in every fourth year throughout the Union. The next election will take place on the first day of December next. The electors meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves. They vote for President and Vice President separately, by distinct ballots. They make lists of the number of votes given, and of the persons voted for-which they transmit sealed to the seat of the general government, directed to the President of the Senate, who, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, opens all the Certificates, and the votes are counted. The person having the greatest number of votes for President, is duly elected, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed. If no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, in the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose, immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes are taken by States, the Representation from each having ONE vote; a quorum for this purpose consists of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States is necessary to a choice. If the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice devolves upon them, before the fourth of March, next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death, or other constitutional disability of the President. The period of service is four years; but there is no restriction as to re-election. There is, however, no instance of any President's having served for a longer time than eight years. If the offices of President and Vice President should both become vacant, it then becomes the duty of the Secretary of State to communicate information thereof to the Executive of each Vice-Preisdent of the United States. State, and to cause the same to be published in at least one newspaper of every State, giving two months previous notice that Electors of President shall be appointed or chosen in the several States, within thirty-four days next preceding the first Wednesday in December ensuing; when the choice of President must proceed as usual. The ninth Presidential term will expire with the eighteenth Congsess, on the third of March, 1825. Presidents since the adoption of the Constitution. 1. George Washington, of Virginia, from 1789 to 1797. VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, of New-York, $5,000 per annum. [The Vice-President is, ex-officio president of the Senate; and as President of the Senate, in virtue of an act of the 8th of May, 1792, one of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. His salary, of 5,000 dollars per annum, is fixed by the act of 18th of February, 1793. The Vice President is not a member of the Cabinet. The ordinary duties of this officer is, to preside in the Senate of the United States. When he does not officiate in that station, his place is supplied by a President of the Senate pro tempore, who is chosen from the body of Senators by ballot, and receives additional compensation for his services. The Vice President is elected in the same manner, at the same time, for the same term, and by the same electors as the President. But if no person has a majority of the whole number of electors, then from the two highest numbers in the list the Senate chooses the Vice President: a quorum for this purpose consists of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole is necessary to a choice. No person, constitutionably ineligible to the office of President, is eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.] |