Electoral College

in the United States, the body of men elected in each State to cast the vote of the people of the State for presidential candidates, The State conventions of the various parties nominate the electors, one for each Representative, and one for each Senator in Congre , These persons are voted for on the general election day. The 12th amendment to the Federal Constitution orders the electors to meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for President and Vice- President separately. They are to make distinct lists of all persons voted for by themselves for the two offices, and send those lists, sealed, to the president of the Senate at ya ton. Sections 131 to 151 of the Federal Revised Statutes prescribe generally the proceedings of the electors, They are to meet on the first Wednesday in December in the year in which they are elected, in such place as the Legislature of each State may direct. The governor is to give them three certified lists of those chosen to be electors; the electors are to make three lists of the persons balloted for by. them for the presidency and vice-presidency, and to the certified lists annex the certificates. furnished by the governor. They are to appoint one of their number to carry one of the certificates to the president of the Senate before the first Wednesday in January, and to send to the president of the Senate, by mail, another cony of the certificates; and the third they are to give to the judge of the district wherein they a emble.