[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 119, 109th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

119 STAT. 3623
 
JOINT SESSION--DECLARATION OF
ELECTED PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
NOTE: Jan. 4, 2005 -  [S.Con.Res.1]

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),
That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the House of
Representatives on Thursday, the sixth day of January 2005, at 1 o'clock
post meridian, pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution and laws
relating to the election of President and Vice President of the United
States, and the President of the Senate shall be their Presiding
Officer; that two tellers shall be previously appointed by the President
of the Senate on the part of the Senate and two by the Speaker on the
part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they
are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and
papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which
certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in
the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter ``A'';
and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing
of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear
from the said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and
counted in the manner and according to the rules by law provided, the
result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate,
who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement
shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected
President and Vice President of the United States, and, together with a
list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses.

Agreed to January 4, 2005.