AFTERNOON SESSION.

Met according to adjournment.

Mr. MORTON, of Taunton, modified his Resolution offered in the morning session, so as to read as follows:

Resolved, That the Committee of the Whole to whom was referred the Report of the Committee on the State Credit, be discharged from the further consideration of that subject, and that the same be referred to a select committee, with instructions to report a Resolve limiting the power of the legislature to incur debts and create liabilities in behalf of the State.

On motion of Mr. WHITNEY, of Boylston, sustained by a vote of one hundred and four in the affirmative to fifty-one in the negative, The Resolution was laid upon the table.

The Orders of the Day were then laid upon the table, and

On motion of Mr. BUTLER, of Lowell, the Convention resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, for the purpose of considering the Resolves on the subject of the House of Representatives, and the President requested Mr. Wilson, of Natick, to take the chair.

Afterwards, Mr. WILSON reported the Resolves to the Convention, with an amendment, as follows::-

Striking out all after the word "Resolved," and substituting therefor, the following, viz. :—

That the Constitution be so revised and altered, that the representation of the Commonwealth be apportioned as follows:—

Every town of a less number than one thousand inhabitants, shall be entitled to five representatives, in each ten years, with an additional representative for the year when the valuation of estates shall be settled.

Any two of such towns may, by a vote of a major part of the legal voters of each, at legal meetings thereof, unite together in a district, which shall be entitled to a representative each year, and which shall continue for a period of not less than five years, excepting the year in which the valuation of estates is settled.

Every town of one thousand inhabitants, and of less than four thousand, shall be entitled to one representative each year.

Every town of four thousand inhabitants, and of less than eight thousand, shall be entitled to two representatives each year.

Every town of eight thousand inhabitants, and of less than twelve thousand, shall be entitled to three representatives each year.

Every city or town of twelve thousand inhabitants, shall be entitled to four representatives each year.

Every city or town of over twelve thousand inhabitants, shall be entitled to as many additional representatives in each year as the number of times five thousand may be contained in the additional number of the inhabitants thereof.

Resolved, That this apportionment be based upon the census of 1850, until a new census be taken.

Resolved, That the Senate, at its first session after this Constitution shall have been adopted, and at its first session after the next State census shall have been taken, and at its first session next after each decennial State census thereafterwards, shall apportion the number of representatives to which each town and city shall be entitled, and shall cause the same to be seasonably published; and in all apportionments after the first, the numbers which shall entitle any city or town to two, three, four or more representatives, shall be so adjusted, in proportion, as hereinbefore provided, that the whole number of representatives, exclusive of those which may be returned by towns of less than one thousand inhabitants, and of the towns which shall hereafter be created with power to send one representative, shall never exceed three hundred and seventy.

Resolved, That no town hereafter be incorporated with a privilege of representation as such, containing less than fifteen hundred inhabitants.

Resolved, That each city in this Commonwealth shall be divided, by such means as the legislature may provide, into districts of contiguous territory, as nearly equal in population as may be, for the election of representatives, which districts shall not be changed oftener than once in five years: provided, however, that no one district shall be entitled to elect more than three representatives.

Mr. HUNTINGTON, of Northampton, moved to amend the amendment of the Committee of the Whole, by striking from the first paragraph the words "one thousand," and inserting instead thereof, the words "twelve hundred."

And also, by making the same alteration in the third paragraph. And, pending the question upon this proposition,

On motion of Mr. HUNTINGTON, the subject was postponed until to-morrow.

On motion of Mr. LIVERMORE, of Cambridge, the Resolve reported by the Committee on the Pay Roll, on the subject of the compensa

tion of the members of the Convention, was taken from the table and considered.

On motion of Mr. LIVERMORE, the Resolve was amended by substituting the word "requested" for the word "authorized," in the twelfth line.

On motion of Mr. MORTON, of Fairhaven, the Resolve was further amended, by striking out the words, "provided, that in no case shall any member receive more than two hundred dollars for attendance."

Mr. HooD, of Lynn, moved further to amend the Resolve, by substituting the word "two" for the word "three," in the third line.

And also moved, that when the question is taken upon the amendment, it be taken by yeas and nays.

But one-fifth of the members not voting in the affirmative, the yeas and nays were not ordered.

Afterwards, Mr. DANA, member for Manchester, again moved for the yeas and nays on the amendment, and they were ordered. Mr. Hoop then withdrew his amendment,

Which was renewed by Mr. BIRD, of Walpole,

And, upon his motion, the yeas and nays were again ordered. Mr. THOMAS, of Weymouth, moved an adjournment; but the motion was rejected.

The roll being called, fifty-four members voted for the amendment, and one hundred and ninety-two against it.

So it was rejected.

Those who voted in the affirmative are :—

Messrs. Parsons Allen,

John B. Alley,

D. W. Alvord,

Samuel Ayres,
Moses Bates, Jr.,

William Bennett, Jr.,
Francis W. Bird,

George S. Boutwell,

Sewell Boutwell,

Hiram N. Breed,

Hammond Brown,
Hiram C. Brown,
Rufus Bullock,
Benjamin F. Butler,
Chester W. Chapin,
Charles E. Cook,
George W. Crockett,
F. B. Crowninshield,
Henry W. Cushman,
Isaac Davis,
Elijah S. Deming,

Messrs. Lyman Fisk,

James M. Freeman,
Elbridge Gates,
Wanton C. Gilbert,
Joel Giles,

Whiting Griswold,
Nathan Hale,

Seth Hapgood,
George Hood,
Martin Howard,
Moses C. Hurlbut,
William James,
William P. Marble,
Simeon Merritt,
Marcus Morton, Jr.,
Charles Newman,
É. Wing Packer,
Sylvanus B. Phinney,
Luther Richards,
Samuel H. Richardson,
John W. Simonds,