When, after the meeting of the electors shall have been held, no certificates of votes from any State shall have been received at the seat of government on the fourth Wednesday in December, the President of the Senate or, if the President of the Senate be absent from the seat of government, the Archivist of the United States shall send a special messenger to the district judge in whose custody one certificate of votes from that State has been lodged, and such judge shall forthwith transmit that certificate by the hand of such messenger to the seat of government.
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CHAPTER 1— PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES
§ 1. Time of appointing electors
§ 4. Vacancies in electoral college
§ 5. Certificate of ascertainment of appointment of electors
§ 7. Meeting and vote of electors
§ 9. Certificates of votes for President and Vice President
§ 10. Sealing and endorsing certificates
§ 11. Transmission of certificates by electors
§ 13. Same; demand on district judge for certificate
§ 15. Counting electoral votes in Congress
§ 16. Same; seats for officers and Members of two Houses in joint session
§ 17. Same; limit of debate in each House
§ 18. Same; parliamentary procedure at joint session
§ 19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act