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On motion of Mr. EDWARDS, of Southampton, the Convention resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, for the purpose of considering the Resolve on the subject of the Council and the LieutenantGovernor; and the President requested Mr. Briggs, of Pittsfield, to take the chair.

Afterwards, Mr. BRIGGS reported, that the Committee had considered the Resolves on the subject of the Council, and had instructed him to report them to the Convention, as amended;

Also, that they had made progress in the consideration of the Resolves on the subject of the lieutenant-governor, but had come to no conclusion, and had instructed him to ask leave to sit again.

The question being upon granting leave to the Committee to sit again for the further consideration of the Resolves on the subject of the lieutenant-governor,

Leave was granted.

Pending the consideration of the 'Resolves on the subject of the Council,

At six o'clock, on motion of Mr. KINGMAN, of West Bridgewater, The Convention adjourned.

SATURDAY, June 4, 1853.

Met according to adjournment. Prayer was offered by the Chaplain. The Journal of yesterday was read.

Mr. ALLEN, of Worcester, from the Committee on the Frame of Government, submitted Reports, as follow:

Inexpedient to act upon the subject of an Order of May 20th, concerning special privileges and immunities.

Also, inexpedient to act upon the subject of an Order of May 24th, concerning the purchase of books by the legislature.

Also, inexpedient to act upon the subject of an Order of May 18th, concerning biennial elections and biennial sessions of the legislature. Also, inexpedient to act upon the subject of an Order of May 13th, concerning the expediency of requiring the votes of a majority of all the members elected to the legislature, to the enactment of a law or the passage of a resolve.

These Reports were severally referred to the Committee of the Whole and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SUMNER, member for Marshfield, from the Committee on the Bill of Rights, submitted a Report:

That the Committee have had under consideration the Petition of John P. Coburn and others, praying that the laws of the Commonwealth be so modified that no able-bodied male citizen be prevented from serving or holding a commission in the militia on account of his color; and that they ask to be discharged from the same, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on the Militia.

And the Report was accepted, and the Petition so referred. On motion of Mr. WHITNEY, of Conway, sustained by a vote of one hundred and twelve in the affirmative to fifty in the negative,

Ordered, That the question upon the Resolve relating to the Council, be taken at eleven o'clock to-day.

On motion of Mr. WILSON, of Natick, the Convention proceeded to the consideration of the Orders of the Day.

The first subject was the Resolves on the subject of the Council, as amended in Committee of the Whole.

Mr. DANA, member for Manchester, moved to strike out all after the word "Resolved," and substitute therefor the following:

That the Constitution should be so altered as to strike out the third section of chapter 2, relating to "the Council for advising the governor in the executive part of the government," and substitute therefor a distribution of its powers and duties to other branches and officers of the government.

Being the first Resolution of the series reported by the standing committee of the Convention.

On motion of Mr. DE WITT, of Oxford,

Ordered, That when the question is taken on the proposed amendment, it be taken by yeas and nays.

And the roll being called, one hundred and twenty-two members voted for the amendment, and one hundred and eighty-four against it. So the amendment was rejected.

Those who voted in the affirmative are:

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Messrs. Adolphus F. Brown,

Hammond Brown,

Hiram C. Brown,

Frederick Brownell,
Amos H. Bullen,
Anson Burlingame,
Benjamin F. Butler,

Isaac Case,

Amariah Chandler,
Chester W. Chapin,
Josiah Childs,

J. McKean Churchill,
Henry Clark,
Ransom Clark,
Alpheus B. Clarke,
Stillman Clarke,

Lansing J. Cole,

George B. Crane,
Joseph W. Cross,
F. B. Crowninshield,
Henry W. Cushman,
Richard H. Dana, Jr.,

Charles G. Davis,
Isaac Davis,
Gilman Day,
Elijah S. Deming,
Augustus Denton,
Alexander De Witt,
Samuel Duncan,
Bradish Dunham,
James Easton, 2d,

Lyman Fisk,
Emery Fiske,
Ezekiel W. Fitch,
James M. Freeman,
Charles A. French,
Luther Gale,
Elbridge Gates,
Joel Giles,
Leonard Gooding,
William B. Greene,
Josiah W. Griswold,
Whiting Griswold,
B. F. Hallett,
Seth Hapgood,
Phineas Harmon,
William Haskins,
Stephen E. Hawkes,
Aaron Hobart,
George Hood,

Charles P. Huntington,
Moses C. Hurlbut,
Abijah M. Ide, Jr.,

Messrs. John Jacobs,

Joseph Kimball,
Jefferson Knight,
J. S. C. Knowlton,
George H. Kuhn,
Gardner P. Ladd,
Abishai Lincoln,
Otis Little, .
William P. Marble,
Abijah P. Marvin,
Simeon Merritt,

James L. Monroe,
James M. Moore,
Marcus Morton,
Hiram Nash,
William Nichols,
Alfred Norton,
Andrew T. Nute,
Charles Osgood,
John G. Park,
Samuel C. Parsons,
John Penniman,
Charles Phelps,
Henry Pierce,
John A. Putnam,
Robert Rantoul,
John Rogers,

Chester Sanderson,
Luther Sheldon,

John Sherril,
Melzar Sprague,
Samuel W. Spooner,

Caleb Stetson,
William Stevens,
Charles Sumner,

Arnold Taft,
Joseph Thayer,
Willard Thayer, 2d,
Horatio W. Tilton,
Charles R. Train,
David P. Turner,
Orison Underwood,
Bradford L. Wales,
Freeland Wallis,
Samuel Warner, Jr.,
James S. Whitney,
Joseph Wilbur,
Henry Williams,
Henry Wilson,
Willard Wilson,
Levi M. Winslow,
Otis Wood,
Ezekiel Wright.

Those who voted in the negative are :—

Messrs. Alfred A. Abbott,

Benjamin P. Adams,

Joel C. Allen,

Robert Andrews, William Appleton, William Aspinwall, David C. Atwood, Samuel Ayres, Russel Bartlett, Sidney Bartlett,

Marcus Barrett,

Moses Bates, Jr.,

John Beal,

James M. Beebe, William Bennett, Jr., Zephaniah Bennett, Jacob Bigelow, Francis W. Bird, Gad O. Bliss, William C. Bliss, George S. Boutwell, Sewell Boutwell, Ebenezer Bradbury, Milton P. Braman, Osmyn Brewster, Francis Brinley, Asa Bronson, Artemas Brown, Rufus Bullock, Cephas C. Bumpus, Henry Cady,

Timothy W. Carter,

Daniel E. Chapin,

Messrs. Solomon Davis,

Henry L. Dawes,

Silas Dean,
William Dehon,

John M. Durgin,

Philip Eames,

Lilley Eaton,
Elisha Edwards,
Samuel Edwards,
A. G. Farwell,
Sullivan Fay,
Samuel Fowle,

Samuel P. Fowler,

Wanton C. Gilbert,

Charles G. Giles,
Daniel W. Gooch,
Robert Gould,
Dalton Goulding,
F. R. Gourgas,
John W. Graves,
John C. Gray,
Jabez Green,

Samuel P. Hadley,
Artemas Hale,
Nathan Hale,

A. B. Hammond,

Elnathan P. Hathaway, Isaac Hayden,

George Hayward,

Ezra Heath, 2d,

Samuel Henry,

Henry Hersey,

James Hewes,

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Messrs. Isaac Kendall,

Joseph Kingman,

Henry W. Kinsman,

Joseph Knight,

William H. Knowlton,

John S. Ladd,
Luther Lawrence,
F. W. Lincoln, Jr.,
Tristram Littlefield,
Isaac Livermore,
Samuel K. Lothrop,
Samuel P. Loud,
John A. Lowell,

Theophilus R. Marvin,
Reuben Meader,
Seth Miller, Jr.,
Samuel Mixter,
George Morey,
Marcus Morton, Jr.,
William S. Morton,
Jonathan Nayson,

Charles Newman,

Daniel Noyes,

Henry K. Oliver,
Nathan Orcutt,
Benjamin S. Orne,
James W. Paige,
Benjamin Paine,

Henry Paine,

Jonathan Parris,
Thomas A. Parsons,
George Peabody,
Nathaniel Peabody,
Daniel A. Perkins,

Jesse Perkins,
Noah C. Perkins,
F. O. Prince,

George Putnam,

Silas Rawson,

James Read,

David Rice,

Messrs. Luther Richards,
Daniel Richardson,

Samuel H. Richardson,
George R. Sampson,
Amasa Sanderson,

John Sargent,
William Schouler,
Charles Sherman,
Chester Sikes,

John W. Simonds,
John S. Sleeper,
Matthew Smith,

John Souther,
Eben H. Stacy,
Granville Stevens,
Joseph L. Stevens, Jr.,
Alfred L. Strong,
Alanson Swain,

Ralph Taylor,

Charles Thompson,
Edmund P. Tileston,

Ephraim Tower,

William Tyler,

Charles W. Upham,

George B. Upton,

Joel Viles,

Samuel B. Walcott,

Amasa Walker,

Samuel Walker,

Asa H. Waters,
Cyrus Weeks,
Gershom B. Weston,
Thomas Wetmore,
William F. Wheeler,
Daniel S. Whitney,
Daniel Wilbur,

Joel Wilder,

Milo Wilson,
Jonathan B. Winn,
Nathaniel Wood,
William H. Wood.

Mr. WALKER, of North Brookfield, moved that the word " eight" be struck out of the first line, and the word "five" inserted instead.

Also, that the word "five" be struck out of the fourth line, and the word "eight" inserted instead.

But the amendment was rejected.

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Mr. BARTLETT, of Boston, moved to amend by striking out all after the word "people," in the second line of the first Resolve, and in

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