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any mode of determining the tie — Then in the total absence of law
we had to resort to precedent and ^we find that in the Senate of the
United States that when that body is governed by a President pro
tem that he has in the first place a right to a vote as a Member
and then on a tie has also the casting vote, thus giveing [sic] two votes -
It is however true that the vice President of the United States when
presiding as President of the Senate has but one vote — the casting vote
— and that is because he is no member of that body: Grays
friends also object to the proclaiming of Hunt at the Court House
don [sic] upon the ground that the Officer of the Court was ordered to do so
when but four Magistrates were on the Bench. To this we reply that
three Justices forms a Court — You will perceive that the
from the Record that at 7 oClock in the evening when Hunts
Voters had gone home, or many of them, that Grays Magistrates
then at 7 oClock assembled and had a new balloting and elected
Gray - But at this second Election you will perceive that only
eleven Votes were given in. Now you will perceive by reference to the
proper documents in your Office that there are 31 Magistrates in
this County and all the various laws of this state establishing
Circuit Courts requird that in the transaction of County Business
there must be present a majority of the whole number or the
County [even?] a full claim against the County cannot be
admitted unless a Majority of the whole in the County is present —