The act further provides that, “if two or more persons shall have the same number of votes, it shall be decided in the same manner as Grand Jurors are drawn for, in the Superior Courts”--that is, the names of such persons as received the same number of votes were to be written on slips of paper and put into a box or hat; a boy under twelve years of age then drew out one of the slips, and the person whose name appeared thereon received the certificate of election. The electors chosen received certificates of election signed by the committee, and the three electors thus chosen were directed by the act to “convene at Knoxville on the first Wednesday in December, 1796, and proceed to elect a president and vice-president of the United States.” This act, or method of selecting presidential electors, was re-enacted by the general assembly of Tennessee, October 26, 1799, for the presidential election to occur in 1800. I am not aware that this method of selecting presidential electors was ever adopted by any other state. This seeming digression from the main subject will be pardoned, in view of the fact that Chief Justice Fuller, as I understand him, refers to the act under consideration as applicable only to the Miro District. The method of choosing presidential electors prescribed in this act shows how implicitly the people at that time trusted their representatives, and also the confidence the representatives reposed in the judgment and patriotism of the citizen, as well as the confidence which the people then had in the honor and patriotism of each other. FOOTNOTES: [J] Haywood, Ramsey, Putnam and Phelan unanimously and invariably so spell it. [K] Haywood’s History of Tennessee. [L] This “big Injun” seems to have written his name as the fancy struck him. The signature to one of the letters is “McGillivray,” while the other two are signed “McGilveray.” All are in the same handwriting, and all are evidently autographic. CHAPTER VII. _ANDREW JACKSON AS A “SPORT.”_