صور الصفحة
PDF
النشر الإلكتروني

Election for the Fifteenth term, commencing 4th March, 1845, and termi

nating 3d March, 1849.

[blocks in formation]

James K. Polk, elected President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties on 4th March, 1845.

George Mithin Dallas, elected Vice President, attended in Senate, and

took the oath of office on 4th March, 1845.

Election for the Sixteenth Term, commencing 4th March, 1849, and terini

nating 3d March, 1853.

[blocks in formation]

290 Whole number of electors...... 163 127 163 127

Zachary Taylor, elected President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties, 4th March, 1849.

Millard Fillmore, elected Vice President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties, 4th March, 1849.

Zachary Taylor, President of the United States, having deceased on Tuesday the 9th July, 1850; and Congress being then in session:

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WEDNESDAY, July 10, 1850.

The following communication, received by the Secretary of the Senate, was read:

To the Senate of the United States:

In consequence of the lamented death of Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States, I shall no longer occupy the chair of the Senate; and I have thought that a formal communication to the Senate, to that effect, through your Secretary, might enable you the more promptly to proceed to the choice of a presiding officer. MILLARD FILLMORE.

WASHINGTON, July 10, 1850.

The following message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Fisher :

Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives :

I have to perform the melancholy duty of announcing to you that it has pleased Almighty God to remove from this life Zachary Taylor, late Presi. dent of the United States. He deceased last evening, at the hour of half past ten o'clock, in the midst of his family and surrounded by affectionate friends, calmly and in the full possession of all his faculties. Among his last words were these, which he uttered with emphatic distinctness: "I have always done my duty-I am ready to die-my only regret is for the friends I leave behind me."

Having announced to you, fellow-citizens, this most afflicting bereavement, and assuring you that it has penetrated no heart with deeper grief than mine, it remains for me to say, that I propose this day, at 12 o'clock, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, in the presence of both Houses of Congress, to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, to enable me to enter on the execution of the office which this event has devolved on me. MILLARD FILLMORE.

WASHINGTON, July 10, 1850.

A similar message having been communicated to the House of Representatives and the necessary arrangements made between the two Houses:At 12 o'clock meridian

The President of the United States, the Heads of Departments, the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, and the Senate of the United States, having entered the Hall of the House of Representatives

The oath of office was administered to the President by the Honourable William Cranch, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

Congress.

Synoptical table of terms of office, and length of service, in the Senate, and of the Presidents pro

[blocks in formation]

Session.

Commencement
of Session.

Termination
of Session.

Number of days
in each Session.

Names of Vice Presi-
dents of the United
States.

4 Mar. 1789 29 Sept. 1789 210 John Adams

John Adams

4

[blocks in formation]

1234

« السابقةمتابعة »