Messrs. Lyman W. Hapgood, Seth Hapgood, Messrs. Salah Clark, Alpheus B. Clarke, William Cleverly, Sumner Cole, Phineas Harmon, George B. Crane, Charles G. Davis, Robert T. Davis, Gilman Day, Samuel Duncan, Bradish Dunham, James Easton, 2d, James K. Fellows, Lyman Fisk, Aaron Foster, Samuel Fowle, James M. Freeman, Charles A. French, Rodney French, Samuel French, Richard Frothingham, Jr., Luther Gale, Elbridge Gates, Washington Gilbert, Charles G. Giles, Leonard Gooding, Dalton Goulding, John W. Graves, Jabez Green, William B. Greene, Josiah W. Griswold, Whiting Griswold, Samuel P. Hadley, Benjamin F. Hallett, William Haskins, Isaac Hayden, Charles C. Hazewell, Henry Hobart, Martin Howard, Abraham H. Howland, Henry K. Hoyt, Charles P. Huntington, Joseph Kingman, Charles L. Knowlton, Albert Knox, Alden Leland, Justin E. Loomis, Laban Marcy, Simeon Merritt, James L. Monroe, James M. Moore, Elbridge G. Morton, William S. Morton, Hiram Nash, William Nichols, Andrew T. Nute, Joseph E. Ober, Henry Paine, Messrs. Alanson Swain, Arnold Taft, Willard Thayer, 2d, Orison Underwood, George A. Vinton, Freeland Wallis, Amasa Walker, Increase Sumner, Those who voted in the negative are: Messrs. Benjamin P. Adams, P. Emory Aldrich, Robert Andrews, William Aspinwall, James M. Beebe, Luther V. Bell, William Bennett, Jr., Jacob Bigelow, William S. Booth, Ebenezer Bradbury, William J. A. Bradford, Osmyn Brewster, Francis Brinley, George N. Briggs, Patrick Bryant, Messrs. Rufus Bullock, Rufus Choate, Charles E. Cook, Solomon Davis, Henry L. Dawes, James C. Doane, Moses Dorman, Homer Ely, William T. Eustis, Messrs. A. G. Farwell, Samuel P. Fowler, Charles H. French, Henry J. Gardner, Wanton C. Gilbert, Joel Giles, John C. Gray, Artemas Hale, Nathan Hale, Elnathan P. Hathaway, Charles Heard, Henry Hersey, Thomas Hopkinson, Samuel A. Hurlburt, Benjamin D. Hyde, Samuel Jackson, William James, John Jenkins, Samuel H. Jenks, Giles C. Kellogg, George H. Kuhn, John S. Ladd, Job G. Lawton, Jr., Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., Tristram Littlefield, Marcus Morton, Daniel Noyes, Nathan Orcutt, James W. Paige, Messrs. Adolphus G. Parker, Joel Parker, George Peabody, Daniel A. Perkins, Jonathan C. Perkins, William C. Plunkett, Daniel Richardson, Elkanah Ring, Jr., David S. Ross, John Sherril, John Souther, Caleb Stetson, Charles G. Stevens, Joseph Thayer, Edmund P. Tileston, Charles R. Train, John S. Tyler, Charles W. Upham, George B. Upton, Thomas Wetmore, Benjamin White, Daniel Wilbur, Joseph Wilbur, Charles C. Wood, Josiah B. Woods. The question being upon ordering the Resolve, as amended, to a second reading, Mr. EARLE, of Worcester, called for the yeas and nays; but the call was not sustained by one-fifth of the members voting. The Resolve, as amended, was then ordered to a second reading, by a vote of one hundred and eighty-three in the affirmative, to ninety in the negative. On motion of Mr. GRISWOLD, member for Erving, the rule was suspended, and the Resolve considered, the question being on its final passage. Mr. GARDNER, of Boston, moved to amend, by substituting the words "eighteen hundred and fifty-three" for the words "eighteen hundred and fifty-five." Mr. PLUNKETT, of Adams, called for the yeas and nays upon this motion; but the call was not sustained by one-fifth of the members voting. The amendment was then rejected, And the Resolve was finally passed, by a vote of one hundred and eighty-nine in the affirmative, to eighty-two in the negative, as follows: Resolved, That it is expedient so to amend the Constitution, as to provide― That the legislature which shall be chosen at the general election in November, 1855, shall be required to divide the State into forty single districts for the choice of senators, such districts to be of contiguous territory, and as equal in the number of qualified voters contained in each district as may be; and also to divide the State into single or double districts, for the choice of not less than two hundred and forty nor more than three hundred and twenty representatives, each district to be of contiguous territory, and as equal in the number of qualified voters contained in each district, as may be; with proper provisions for the redistricting of the State as aforesaid, in the year 1866, and every tenth year thereafter, and with all other provisions necessary for carrying such system of districts into operation, and to submit the same to the people at the general election to be held in the year 1856, for their ratification; and if the same shall be ratified by the people it shall become a part of this Constitution, in place of the provision herein contained, for the apportioning of senators and representatives. On motion of Mr. WILSON, of Natick, the Convention proceeded to the consideration of the Orders of the Day. The first subject was the motion of Mr. White, of Quincy, that the vote by which the Convention finally passed the Resolve on the subject of appropriations for sectarian schools, be reconsidered. Mr. WHITE called for the yeas and nays upon this motion; but the call was not sustained by one-fifth of the members voting. After debate, Mr. PERKINS, of Malden, moved the Previous Question; which was ordered. And the motion to reconsider was rejected, by a vote of eightyseven in the affirmative, to one hundred and three in the negative. On motion of Mr. WILSON, of Natick, the Orders of the Day were laid upon the table. On motion of Mr. DANA, member for Manchester, the Resolves. reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, were taken from the table and considered. Mr. WILSON, of Natick, moved a suspension of the rule, requiring that propositions to amend the Constitution shall be first considered in Committee of the Whole. On this question the vote was seventy-eight in the affirmative, and seven in the negative. There appearing to be no quorum present, the question was again put, and the vote stood eighty-three in the affirmative, to ten in the negative. There still appearing to be no quorum, Mr. LOTHROP, of Boston, moved an adjournment; but the motion was rejected, by a vote of twenty-three in the affirmative, to seventyseven in the negative. The motion to suspend the rule was agreed to, by a vote of ninetyfive in the affirmative, to six in the negative. Mr. DANA, member for Manchester, offered an amendment to the third Resolve; but afterwards withdrew it. And the Resolves were then ordered to a second reading. On motion of Mr. TRAIN, of Framingham, the Orders of the Day were again taken up. The first subject was the motion of Mr. Wheeler, of Lincoln, that the vote by which the Resolve on the subject of imprisonment for debt was finally passed, be reconsidered. On motion of Mr. SCHOULER, of Boston, the motion to reconsider was Laid upon the table. The question was raised, whether the Resolve on the subject of imprisonment for debt had ever been considered in Committee of the Whole previous to being considered in Convention, And it appearing that it had not been so considered, Mr. SCHOULER, of Boston, moved a suspension of the rule, |