Section 39

Section XXXIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the state treasurer shall be appointed on the second Tuesday in January, in every year, for which purpose each house shall at least three days previous to such appointment, choose a teller, and furnish the other house with a minute of such choice, and on the day of such election, the members of both houses shall assemble at such hour as shall have been agreed upon by the two houses, in the chamber of the house of representatives, and the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, shall preside, alternately at such elections, and the tellers shall take down in writing the name of every member voting at such elections, and that of the person voted for, whereupon the president of the meeting shall declare the result of such election; and if either of the candidates has a majority of all the members present, the president of the meeting shall declare such candidate to be duly elected state treasurer for the current year, and duplicate certificates thereof shall be immediately made out and signed by the said president and attested by the tellers, and the said tellers shall make report to their respective houses, in order that the same may be entered on their journals, but if there should not be a majority at the first poll for either candidate, the meeting shall proceed to vote until a choice be made.