TUESDAY, November 12, 1872. This being the day fixed by the act of the General Assembly, entitled "An act to provide for calling a Convention to amend the Constitution," approved the eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, for the persons chosen as delegates to assemble in Convention, a number of the said delegates, sufficient to constitute a quoruin, being present, the Convention was called to order by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Hon. Francis Jordan, who address ed the Convention as follows:

Gentlemen of the Convention:-The third

section of the act of the General Assembly, approved the eleventh day of April, 1872, and entitled, "An act to provide for calling a Convention to amend the Constitution," imposes upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth the duty of calling the Convention to order at twelve o'clock, at noon, on the second Tuesday of November, 1872, of submitting the official returns of election, and of reading the proclamation of the Governor, declaring the names of the persons chosen as members of the Convention. The day and hour designated by law for these purposes having arrived, I am here to perform the duties imposed.

The other duties required of the Secretary of the Commonwealth by said act of Assembly have been discharged, and report thereof to the Convention will be inade immediately after it shall have

chosen a President. In the meantime, I have designated my Chief Clerk, Thomas M'Camant, Jas. L. Selfridge, Clerk of the House of Representatives, and John A. Smull, Resident Clerk of the House of Representatives, as temporary clerks, and A. M. Martin and H. J. Mason as stenographic reporters, to act until the Co:vention shall supply their places.

The Convention will now please come to order.

These are the official returns of the elec

tion made to the Secretary of the Con monwealth, arranged according to counties, and of which the Convention will, from this time forth, have the legal and actual custody.

In accordance with the provisions of the act, I will now read the proclamation of

the Governor.

of the Commonwealth shall, as soon as the returns of said election shall be received by him, and at all events within fifteen days after the election, in the presence of the Governor and Auditor General, open and compute all the returns received of votes given for members of the Convention; and the Governor shall forthwith is sue his proclamation, declaring the names of the persons who have been chosen members of the Convention."

And whereas, The Secretary of the Commonwealth did, on the twenty-first day of October, A. D. 1872, in the manner provided in the act of the General Assembly aforesaid, open and compute all the returns received of votes given for members of the Convention.

And whereas, It appears by the returns of the general election held on the second Tuesday of October, instant, being the eighth day of said month, that the names of the persons who have been chosen members of the Convention, areas follows, viz: Wm. M. Meredith, J. Gillingham Fell, Harry White,William Lilly, Linn Bartholomew, Hugh N. M'Allister, William Davis, James L. Reynolds, Samuel E. Dimmick, George V. Lawrence, William H. Armstrong, David N. White, William H. Ainey, John H. Walker, George W. Woodward, Jeremiah S. Black, Andrew G. Curtin, William J. Baer, William H. Smith, Franklin B. Gowen, John H. Campbell, Samuel H. Reynolds, James Ellis, Samuel C. T. Dodd, George M. Dallas, Robert A. Lamberton, Andrew A. Purman and Wm. L. Corbett, delegates at large to said Con

vention.

Corson.

From the Seventh Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Bucks and Northampton, Charles Brodhead, George Ross and George Lear.

From the Eighth Senatorial district, composed of the county of Berks, George G. Barclay, Henry W. Smith and Henry Van Reed.

From the Ninth Senatorial district, composed of the county of Lancaster, David W. Patterson, Henry Carter and Henry G. Smith.

From the Tenth Senatorial district, composed of the county of Schuylkill, Joel B. M'Camant, John M. Wetherill and Thomas R. Bannan.

From the Eleventh Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Lehigh and Carbon, Charles M. Runk, Zachariah Long and Edward Harvey.

From the Twelfth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon, Josiah Funck, Wayne Mac Veagh and Hamilton Alricks.

From the Thirteenth Senatorial district,

composed of the counties of Lazerne, Monroe and Pike, Henry S. Mott, Gideon W. Palmer, Abraham B. Dunning, Daniel L... Rhone, Henry W. Palmer and Lewis Pughe.

From the Fourteenth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming, George F. Horton, William J. Turrell and Joseph G. Patton.

From the Fifteenth Senatorial district. composed of the counties of Columbia, Lycoming, Montour and Sullivan, John J. Metzger, John G. Freeze and Henry C. Parsons.

From the Sixteenth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Cameron, M'Kean, Potter and Tioga, John S. Mann, Jerome B. Niles and Mortimer F. Elliott

From the Seventeeth Senatorial dis ric, composed of the counties of Snyder, Perry, Northumberland and Union, Joseph Baily, Levi Rooke and John P. Cronmiller. From the Eighteenth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Clinton, Cambria, Clearfield and Elk, George Achenbach, John G. Hall and Ashel C. Finney. From the Nineteenth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Cumberland and Franklin, Samuel M. Wherry, J. M'Dowell Sharpe and John Stewart.

From the Twentieth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Adams and York, William M'Clean, John Gibson and Thomas E. Cochran.

From the Twenty-first Senatorial dis trict, composed of the counties of Bedford, Fulton, Blair and Somerset, Samuel L. Russell, James W. Curry and Augustus S. Landis.

From the Twenty-second Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Centre, Juniata, Mitilin and Huntingdon, John M. Bailey, Andrew Reed and John M'Culloch.

From the Twenty-third Senatorial district, composed of the county of Allegheny, Thomas MacConnell, Samuel A. Purviance, Thomas Ewing, John W. F. White, Matthew Edwards, Thomas Howard Malcolm Hay, John B. Guthrie and Thomas H. B. Patterson.

From the Twenty-fourth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Indiana and Westmoreland, Daniel S. Porter, Andrew M. Fulton and Silas M. Clark.

From the Twenty-fifth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Fayette and Greene, Daniel Kane, Charles A. Black and John Collins.

From the Twenty-sixth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Beaver, Butler and Washington, John N. Purviance, Thomas R. Hazzard and William Hopkins.

From the Twenty-seventh Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Clarion, Armstrong, Jefferson and Forest, George W. Andrews, John M'Murray and John Gilpin.

From the Twenty-eighth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Lawrence, Mercer and Venango, David Craig, Manly C. Beebe and Robert M. DeFrance, From the Twenty-ninth Senatorial district, composed of the county of Crawford, Frank Mantor, Samuel Minor and Pearson Church.

From the Thirtieth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Erie and War

ren, Thomas Struthers, Charles O. Bowman and Rasselas Brown.

Now, therefore, I, Joux W. GEARY, Governor as aforesaid, have issued this my proclamation, hereby publishing and declaring that the persons hereinbefore named have been returned as duly elected delegates from the State at large, delegates at large from the city of Philadelphia, and as delegates from the different Senatorial districts of the State as hereinbefore recited, and are the names of the persons who have been chosen members of the Convention, to assemble in the hall of the House of Representatives, at the State Capitol, in Harrisburg, on the second Tuesday, being the twelfth day of November, A. D. 1872, at twelve o'clock M., on that day, to revise and amend the Constitution of this State, in accordance with the provisions of the aforesaid act of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this twentysecond day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and of the Commonwealth the ninety-seventh.

JNO. W. GEARY.

BY THE GOVERNOR :

FRANCIS JORDAN,

Secretary of the Commonwealtă. The SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. The next thing in order, I suppose, will be the calling of the roll, to ascertain whether or not these persons are present, or how many of them. The Clerk will please call the roll.

The Clerk then called the roll, and the following named members answered to their names:

DELEGATES AT LARGE IN THE STATE.— William H. Ainey, William H. Armstrong, William J. Baer, Linn Bartholomew, Jeremiah S. Black, John H. Campbell, William L. Corbett, Andrew G. Curtin, George M. Dallas, William Davis, Samuel E. Dimmick, Samuel C. T. Dodd, James Ellis, J. Gillingham Fell, Franklin B. Gowen, Robert A. Lamberton, George V. Lawrence, William Lilly, Hugh N. M'Allis.er, William M. Meredith, Andrew A. Purman, James L. Reynolds, Samuel H. Rovnolds, William H. Smith, John H. Walker, David N. White, Harry White an George W. Woodward.

DELEGATES AT LARGE IN PHILADELPHIA CITY.-Henry C. Carey, Lewis C. Cassidy, Theodore Cuyler, James H. Heyerin, Edward C. Knight and John Price Wetherill.