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The United States of America.

STATE OF Seal of Louisiana LOUISIANA.


EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

New Orleans, December 6, 1876.


We, the Electors of President and Vice President of the United States for the State of Louisiana, do hereby certify, that on this the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-six, we proceeded to vote by ballot for President of the United States, on the date above, that Rutherford B. Hayes. of the State of Ohio ~ received eight votes for President of the United States, being all the votes cast. And that we then immediately proceeded to vote by ballot for Vice President of the United States, whereupon William A. Wheeler of the State of New York received eight votes for Vice President of the United States, being all the votes cast.


In Testimony Whereof, we, said Electors, have hereunto signed our names, on this the first Wednesday, being the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and first.


William P. Kellogg
J. Henri Burch
Peter Joseph
Lionel A. Sheldon
Morris Marks
Aaron B. Levisee
Orlando H. Brewster
Oscar Joffrion