Virginia Argus

TRENTON, February 11.

Legislature of New-Jersey.

Friday, February 1.

The following Communication was received from the Legislature of New-Hampshire, and submitted to the House of Assembly on Tuesday last, read and committed to a committee of the whole House, to sit to-morrow.

State of New-Hampshire.

In the House of Representatives, December 26th, 1798.

RESOLVED, That the Senators and Representatives of this state be, and they hereby are requested to use their best endeavours, that Congress propose to the legislatures of the several states, the following amendments to the constitution of the United States viz,

That the electors of President and Vice President in giving in their votes, shall respectively distinguish the person whom they desire to be President from the one they desire to be Vice-President, by annexing the words President or Vice-President, as the case may require, to the proper name voted for.

And the person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors chosen, shall be Vice-President. And if there be no choice, and two or more persons shall have the highest number of votes, and those equal, the Senate shall immediately choose by ballot, one of them for Vice-President: And if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list, the Senate shall, in like manner, choose the Vice-President. But in choosing the Vice-President, the votes shall be taken by states, the senators from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice: And in case the senators and representatives of this state, in congress, shall find that the aforesaid amendment is not conformable to the sentiments of a constitutional majority of both branches of the national legislature, they are hereby requested to so modify the same, as to meet the sentiments of such majority. Provided however, that any amendment which may be agreed upon, shall oblige the electors to designate the person they desire to be President, from the one who they desire may be vice president.

Resolved further, That his excellency the governor be, and he hereby is requested to communicate the foregoing resolve to the supreme executive of the several states, and also to transmit the same to the senators and representatives in congress.

February, 13.

On Tuesday last, in the house of Assembly of this State, the resolution of the legislature of New-Hampshire, proposing to amend the Federal constitution, so that the votes for President and Vice-President may be designated on the ticket, was taken up, and after some time spent thereon, it was finally agreed that the farther consideration thereof be postponed till the next sitting of the legislature.