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1792 381 (1792)

handle is hein.ssl/ssny0381 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS (i1 TIEi STATE OF NEW-YORK, PASSED AT HriE SIXTEENTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. CHAP. 1. AN ACT to repeal the second section of the act entitled An act for appointing electors in this State for the election of a president and vice president of the United States of America. PASSED the 1gth of November, 1792. Preamble. WHEREAS by the second section of the act entitled An act for appointing electors in this State for the election of a president and vice- president of the United States of America, it is enacted That the electors shall be taken from the four great districts of this State, as near as may be in the following proportions; that is to say, at and after the rate of four from the southern, three from the middle, three from the western, and three from the eastern district, which shall continue until another census shall be taken under the authority of this State. And whereas, there are only twelve electors to be chosen in this State, so that it is impossible to take them from the four great districts in the propor- tions aforesaid. Therefore Part oft at B/e it enacted by the People of the State of New York represented in repeateL. Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said second section of the said act shall be and hereby is repealed.