shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States."

"This stately memorial of the first President is an imposing obelisk of white marble and granite, over five hundred feet high and fifty-five feet square at the base, standing near the Potomac River, not far from the White House, in the city of Washington. The walls are fifteen feet thick, thus leaving a great hollow within, through which an elevator takes passengers to the top. The cornerstone was laid in 1848 but the great work was not completed until 1885. The venerable Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, who delivered the oration at the laying of the corner-stone, performed the same part of the program at the dedication of the monument in 1885. We quote a few sentences from Winthrop's oration in 1848: 'Lay the cornerstone of a monument which shall adequately bespeak the gratitude of the whole American people to the illustrious Father of his Country. Build it to the skies; you can not outreach the loftiness of his principles. Found it upon the massive and eternal rock; you can not make it more enduring than his fame. Construct it of the peerless Parian marble; you can not make it purer than his life. Exhaust upon it the rules and principles of ancient and modern art; you can not make it more proportionate than his character.'

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LESSON 14.-ARTICLE II, SECTION 1-CONTINUED.

MORE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT.

Congress sets the day for the election of the electors. Congress also sets the day for the electors to meet and vote. These days are the same all over the United States.

Paragraph 4. "The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States."

Any citizen of the United States may be elected President: If he was born in the United States; if he is thirty-five (35) years old or over; and if he has been living in this country for fourteen (14) years.

Paragraph 5. "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."