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shall be passed without the assent of three-fifths of all the members elected to both branches of the legislature.

On motion of Mr. CADY, of Monson,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Bill of Rights be instructed to consider the expediency of so amending article 11, as to make compensation for sacrifice of time and expense of counsel to the injured party in case of unjust prosecution.

On motion of Mr. IDE, of Attleborough,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Qualifications of Voters consider the expediency of so amending the Constitution, as to provide that the payment of any poll or registry tax, exceeding in amount the sum of one dollar, shall not be required to constitute any part of the qualifications of voters in this Commonwealth.

On motion of Mr. SUMNER, member for Otis,

Ordered, That each of the committees appointed under the fifteen Resolutions adopted by this Convention be authorized to consider any proposition they may deem compatible with the objects or purposes of their appointment, though not expressly or impliedly embodied in the Resolutions submitted to them; and report thereon.

On motion of Mr. HooD, of Lynn,

Ordered, That

be a committee to consider and report upon the order of business which it may be expedient or necessary for the Convention to adopt, in order to bring the session to a close on or before the first day of July next.

On motion of Mr. WALKER, of North Brookfield,

Ordered, That the Secretary of the Commonwealth be requested to furnish, for the use of this Convention, an alphabetical list of all the towns in the State entitled to only a fractional representation, or less than one each year; also, of all towns having a representation of one each year; also, of all having each two, three, four, five, six, ten, and over ten representatives annually.

Mr. ALVORD, member for Montague, presented the Credentials of Amariah Chandler, the Delegate elected from Greenfield; which were read and placed on file.

Mr. CUSHMAN, of Bernardston, from the Committee on so much of the Constitution as-relates to the Lieutenant-Governor, submitted a Report on that subject, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole, and ordered to be printed.

On motion of Mr. FRENCH, of New Bedford,

Ordered, That four o'clock this day be assigned as the time for taking the question on the motion to reconsider the vote by which the Convention agreed to the Order concerning the election in Berlin.

Mr. BATES, of Plymouth, moved that the Convention proceed to the consideration of the Orders of the Day; and the motion was agreed to by a vote of one hundred and twenty-eight in the affirmative, to ninetyeight in the negative.

The Orders of the Day were accordingly taken up and considered. The hour of four having arrived, Mr PARKER, of Cambridge, moved that the time of taking the question be postponed until Friday at four o'clock; but the motion was rejected.

Mr. SCHOULER, of Boston, moved that the time of taking the question be postponed until six o'clock to-day; but the motion was rejected. On motion of Mr BATES, of Plymouth,

Ordered, That when the question is taken, it be taken by yeas and

nays.

And the roll being called, one hundred and eighteen members voted for the reconsideration, and two hundred and nineteen members against it; so the motion to reconsider was rejected. Those who voted in the affirmative are:

Messrs. Benjamin P. Adams,

Robert Andrews,

William Appleton,

William Aspinwall,

David C. Atwood,

Samuel Ayres,

Joseph Barrows,

Messrs. Ithamar Conkey,

Charles E. Cook,

Russell Bartlett,

Sidney Bartlett,
James M. Beebe,
Luther V. Bell,
Jacob Bigelow,
George W. Blagden,
William C. Bliss,
Ebenezer Bradbury,
Milton P. Braman,
Osmyn Brewster,
Francis Brinley,
Rufus Bullock,

Cephas C. Bumpus,
Henry Cady,
Timothy W. Carter,

Rufus Choate,
Salah Clark,
Nathaniel Cogswell,

Henry F. Cocledge,

Simeon Crittenden,

Leander Crosby,

Seth Crowell,

Joseph Cummings,

Wilber Curtis,
John Davis,
Solomon Davis,
Henry L. Dawes,
William Dehon,
James C. Doane,

Moses Dorman,
Philip Eames,
James Easton, 2d,
Lilley Eaton,
Homer Ely,
William T. Eustis,
A. G. Farwell,
Aaron Foster,
Samuel P. Fowler,
Wanton C. Gilbert,

Joel Giles,

Jason Goulding,

Messrs. John C. Gray,

Artemas Hale,

A. B. Hammond,

George Hayward,

Charles Heard,

Samuel Henry,
Henry Hersey,
George S. Hillard,
William Hinsdale,
Samuel Houghton,
William J. Hubbard,
William Hunt,
Asahel Huntington,
Samuel A. Hurlburt,

Samuel Jackson,
William James,
John Jenkins,
Samuel H. Jenks,

Giles C. Kellogg,
Martin R. Kellogg,
Joseph Knight,
George H. Kuhn,
John S. Ladd,

Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.,

Isaac Livermore,

Otis P. Lord,

Samuel K. Lothrop,
Samuel P. Loud,
William P. Marble,

Seth Miller, Jr.,
Samuel Mixter,
Joseph B. Morss,

Daniel Noyes,

Nathan Orcutt,

Messrs. James W. Paige,

Those who voted in the negative are:

Messrs. Alfred A. Abbott,

Shubael P. Adams,

James B. Allen,

Joel C. Allen,

Parsons Allen,
John B. Alley,
D. W. Alvord,
George Austin,
Hillel Baker,
Alvah Ballard,
George S. Ball,

Alpheus Bancroft,
Marcus Barrett,
Eliakim A. Bates,
Moses Bates, Jr.,

Erasmus D. Beach,

John Beal,

John G. Park,

Adolphus G. Parker,
Joel Parker,

Samuel D. Parker,
Thomas A. Parsons,
George Peabody,
William C. Plunkett,
Jeremiah Pomroy,
James Read,
Sampson Reed,
George R. Sampson,
John Sargent,
William Schouler,
Charles Sherman,
John Sherrill,
John S. Sleeper,
John Souther,
Charles G. Stevens,
J. Thomas Stevenson,
William Stutson,
Thomas Talbot,
Ralph Taylor,

Charles W. Upham,
George B. Upton,
Samuel B. Walcott,
Samuel Walker,

Cyrus Weeks,

William F. Wheeler,

Benjamin White,

Joel Wilder,
John H. Wilkins,

Milo Wilson,

Josiah B. Woods.

Messrs. William Bennett, Jr.,

Zephaniah Bennett,
Edward B. Bigelow,
Francis W. Bird,

Gad O. Bliss,

William S. Booth,

Sewell Boutwell,

William J. A. Bradford,

Hiram N. Breed,
Asa Bronson,

Adolphus F. Brown,
Alpheus R. Brown,
Artemas Brown,
Hammond Brown,
Hiram C. Brown,

Joseph Brownell,

Patrick Bryant,

Messrs. Asahel Buck,

Anson Burlingame,

Benjamin F. Butler,

William Carruthers,

Isaac Case,

Amariah Chandler,
Chester W. Chapin,
Daniel E. Chapin,
Josiah Childs,

J. McKean Churchill,
Henry Clark,

Ransom Clark,

Alpheus B. Clarke,
William Cleverly,
Lansing J. Cole,
Sumner Cole,
George B. Crane,

Oliver S. Cressy,

Joseph W. Cross,

Henry W. Cushman,

Thomas Cushman,
Simeon N. Cutler,
Richard H. Dana, Jr.,

Ebenezer Davis,
Isaac Davis,
Robert T. Davis,

Gilman Day,

Silas Dean,
Elijah S. Deming,
Augustus Denton,
Alexander De Witt,
Samuel Duncan,
Bradish Dunham,
John M. Durgin,
Peter Easland,
Calvin D. Eaton,
Elisha Edwards,
Samuel Edwards,
Joseph M. Ely,
Sullivan Fay,
Lyman Fisk,

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Messrs. John W. Graves,

Jabez Green,

William B. Greene,

Josiah W. Griswold,
Whiting Griswold,
Samuel P. Hadley,
Charles B. Hall,

B. F. Hallett,

Lyman W. Hapgood,

Seth Hapgood,

Phineas Harmon,

William Haskins,

Elnathan P. Hathaway,

Stephen E. Hawkes,

Ezra Heath, 2d,
James Hewes,
William H. Hewes,

Aaron Hobart,

Henry Hobart,

Nathaniel Holder,

George Hood,
Martin Howard,

Abraham H. Howland,

Henry K. Hoyt,

Charles E. Hunt,

Charles P. Huntington,

Abijah M. Ide, Jr.,

John Jacobs,

John Johnson,
Isaac Kendall,
Edward L. Keyes,
Joseph Kimball,
Joseph Kingman,
Hiram Knight,
Jefferson Knight,

J. S. C. Knowlton,
William H. Knowlton,

Albert Knox,

Gardner P. Ladd,

Wilber C. Langdon,

Job G. Lawton, Jr.,

Alden Leland,

Otis Little,

Tristram Littlefield,

Abijah P. Marvin,

Charles Mason,

Simeon Merritt,

James L. Monroe,

James M. Moore,

Elbridge G. Morton,
Marcus Morton, Jr.,
William S. Morton,
Jonathan Nayson,

Charles Newman,

Messrs. William Nichols,

Alfred Norton,

Andrew T. Nute,
Joseph E. Ober,
Benjamin S. Orne,
Charles Osgood,
E. Wing Packer,
Benjamin Paine,

Samuel C. Parsons,
John Partridge,
Nathaniel Peabody,
Jeremiah Pease, Jr.,
John Penniman,
Daniel A. Perkins,
Jesse Perkins,
Charles Phelps,
Silvanus B. Phinney,
Henry Pierce,
James M. Pool,
John A. Putnam,
Robert Rantoul,

Silas Rawson,

David Rice,

Luther Richards,

Daniel Richardson,
Nathan Richardson,
Samuel H. Richardson,
Elkanah Ring, Jr.,
Joseph M. Rockwood,
John Rogers,
David S. Ross,
James C. Royce,

Amasa Sanderson,

Chester Sanderson,

Luther Sheldon,

Chester Sikes,

Perez Simmons,

John W. Simonds,

Melzar Sprague,

Messrs. Samuel W. Spooner,

The Order, as adopted, is as follows:

Caleb Stetson,
Granville Stevens,

Joseph L. Stevens, Jr.,
William Stevens,
Gideon Stiles,

Alfred L. Strong,

Charles Sumner,
Increase Sumner,
Alanson Swain,
Isaac C. Taber,
Arnold Taft,
Willard Thayer, 2d,
John W. Thomas,
Charles Thompson,
Abraham Tilton,
Horatio W. Tilton,
David P. Turner,
William Tyler,

Orison Underwood,

George A. Virton,

Bradford L. Wales,

Frederic T. Wallace,

Freeland Wallis, Amasa Walker, Marshal Warner, Samuel Warner, Jr., Gershom B. Weston, Daniel S. Whitney, James S. Whitney, J. B. Williams, Henry Wilson, Willard Wilson, Jonathan B. Winn,

Charles C. Wood,

Nathaniel Wood,

Otis Wood,

Ezekiel Wright.

In Convention, May, 9, 1853.

Ordered, That the Secretary be directed, in notifying the town of Berlin, to use substantially the form herewith submitted:—

HALL OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION,

Boston, May, 1853.

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To the Selectmen of Berlin:—

GENTLEMEN:-The Hon. Henry Wilson, late Delegate for Berlin, in the Convention for revising the Constitution, having tendered his resignation as such Delegate, which has been accepted by the Con

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