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The title of the second officer, in As to his election, see President of the United States. His office In point of duration Is coextensive with that of the president The constitution of the United States, art. 1. s. 3, clause 4, directs that “the vice-president of the United States shall be president of the senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided." And by article 2, s. 1, clause 6, it Is provided that “in case of the removal of the president from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the vicepresident." When the vice-president exercises the office of president, he is called the President of the United States.

government. The seal used by the United States in congress assembled, shall be the seal of the United States, viz.: ARMS vale ways of thirteen pieces argent and gules; a chief azure; the escutcheon on ter talon, an olive branch, and in his sinister, a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto “ £ pluribus unum.”—For the Crest: over the head of the eagle which appears above the escutcheon, a glory, or breaking through a cloud, proper, and surrounding thirteen stars, forming a constellation argent on an azure field.

— Re EvERSE, a pyramid unfinished. In the zenith an eye in a triangle, surrounded with a glory proper: over the eye, these words, “ Annuit ceptis.” On the base of the pyramid the numerical letters MPCCLXXVI; and underneath the following motto, ‘Novus ordo sectorum.” —Resolution of congress, June 20, 1782; Gordon’s Dig. art. 207.