(From Annals of Congress, Fourth Congress, second session, 1544.)
The Vice-President laid before the Senate the following communication:
_Gentlemen of the Senate_:
In consequence of the declaration made yesterday in the Chamber of the
House of Representatives of the election of a President and
Vice-President of the United States, the record of which has just now
been read from your journal by your secretary, I have judged it proper
to give notice that on the 4th of March next, at 12 o'clock, I propose
to attend again in the Chamber of the House of Representatives, in order
to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to
be taken by the President, to be administered by the Chief Justice or
such other judge of the Supreme Court of the United States as can most
conveniently attend, and, in case none of those judges can attend, by
the judge of the district of Pennsylvania, before such Senators and
Representatives of the United States as may find it convenient to honor
the transaction with their presence.
(JOHN ADAMS.)