February 19, 1802

On motion made and seconded that the House do come to the following resolutions:

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Repreaenta' tivee of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of the said Legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, to wit :

1st. That the State Legislatures shall, from time to time, divide each State into districts, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives from such State in the Congress of the United States ; and shall direct the mode of choosing an Elector of President and Vice President in each of the said districts, who shall be chosen by citizens having the qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature ; and that the districts, so to be constituted shall consist, as nearly as may be, of contiguous territory, and of equal proportion of population, except where there may be any detached portion of territory, not of itself sufficient to form a district, which then shall be annexed to some other portion nearest thereto; which districts, when so divided, shall remain unalterable until a new census of the United States shall be taken.

2d. That, in all future elections of President and Vice President, the persons voted for shall be particularly designated, by declaring which is voted for as President, and which as Vice President

Ordered, That the said motion, together with the resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States, respecting the choice of a President and Vice President, which were read and ordered to lie on the table on the fifteenth instant, be referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.