CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS FIRST SESSION, SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS ASCERTAINMENT AND COUNTING OF ELECTORAL VOTES January 3,1945 [5. Con. Res. 1] Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), Joint meeting; or That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the House ganization; procedure. of Representatives on Saturday, the 6th day of January, 1945, at 1 o'clock postmeridian, pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution and laws relating to the election of President and Vice President of the United States, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer; that two tellers shall be previously appointed by the President of the Senate on the part of the Senate and two by the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter A; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and counted in the manner and according to the rules by law provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected Presi- dent and Vice President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses. Agreed to January 3, 1945. JOINT MEETING lanuary 6,1945 [B. Con. Res. 2] Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the two Houses of Congress assemble in the Hall of the House communications of Representatives on Saturday, the 6th day of January, 1945, imme- rom te resdent diately following the counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice President as provided for in S. Con. Res. 1, for the purpose SU of receiving such communications as the President of the United States shall be pleased to make to them. Agreed to January 6, 1945. ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESS February 19, 1945 [H. Con. Res. 18] Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That there is hereby established a Joint Committee on the Organiza- JoiEticmntt o tion of the Congress (hereinafter referred to as the committee) to be composed of six Members of the Senate (not more than three of whom shall be members of the majority party) to be appointed by 839
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