Afterwards, Mr. Wood reported, that it was the opinion of the committee that the Report ought to be accepted.

And it was accordingly accepted.

On motion of Mr. WILSON, of Natick, the Convention resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, for the purpose of considering the Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, inexpedient to act upon the subject of Orders of June 6th, relating to granting the subject “a certain remedy in law, prompt and without delay," and relating to the codification of the laws; and the President requested Mr. James, of South Scituate, to take the chair.

Afterwards, Mr. JAMES reported, that it was the opinion of the committee that the Report ought to be accepted.

And it was accordingly accepted.

On motion of Mr. WILSON, of Natick, the Convention resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, for the purpose of considering the Report of the Committee on the Secretary, Treasurer, &c., inexpedient to act upon the subject of an Order of June 11th, relating to the expediency of requiring that every person holding an office in or under the State government, shall retire therefrom at the expiration of six years service; and the President requested Mr. Davis, of Plymouth, to take the chair.

Afterwards, Mr. DAVIS reported, that it was the opinion of the committee that the Report ought to be accepted.

And it was accordingly accepted.

On motion of Mr. WILSON, of Natick, the Convention resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, for the purpose of considering the Resolve reported by the Committee on the Governor, in favor of amending the Constitution by striking out the whole of article 7, section 1, chapter 2; and the President requested Mr. Sargent, of Cambridge, to take the chair.

Afterwards, Mr. SARGENT reported, that it was the opinion of the committee that the Resolve ought to pass.

And it was accordingly read a second time, and finally passed, as follows:

Resolved, That it is expedient to amend the Constitution, by striking out the whole of article 7, in section 1, chapter 2.

On motion of Mr. EARLE, of Worcester, the Convention resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, for the purpose of considering the Report of the Committee on the Frame of Government, being a Resolve on the subject of the census; and the President requested Mr. Hooper, of Fall River, to take the chair.

Afterwards, Mr. HOOPER reported the Resolve to the Convention, with amendments, viz. :

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Inserting after the word "the," in the second line, (printed copy,) the words, "whole population of the."

And also adding at the close, the words, " instead of the decennial census now required by the Constitution."

On motion of Mr. BRIGGS, of Pittsfield, the first of the proposed amendments was amended, by striking out the words "whole population of the," and inserting instead thereof, the words, "inhabitants of each city and town in the," and also by inserting the word "all" before the word "the."

The amendment was agreed to, and the amendments of the committee, thus amended, were agreed to.

The Resolve was then read a second time, and finally passed, as follows:

Resolved, That the Constitution be so amended as to require that a census of all the inhabitants of each city and town in the State be taken in the year 1855, and on every tenth year from and after that period, instead of the decennial census now required by the Constitution.

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

The first subject was the Resolve on the basis of the House of Representatives, the pending question being upon the amendment of Mr. Thompson, of Charlestown, to the amendment of the Committee of the Whole.

Mr. DAVIS, of Plymouth, moved to amend the amendment of the Committee of the Whole, by striking out the first paragraph, and substituting therefor the following:

"Each town having five hundred inhabitants or less, shall be entitled to five representatives in ten years.

"Each town having between five hundred and fifteen hundred inhabitants, shall be entitled to an additional representative in ten years for every two hundred additional inhabitants, and each town having less than fifteen hundred inhabitants, shall have an additional representative in every ten years, for valuation year, provided that no more than one representative shall be sent in any one year."

A question was raised, as to the propriety of admitting the amendment, but the President decided to put the question, upon the principle stated by him yesterday, at the time the amendment was offered by Mr. Cady, of Monson.

Mr. BRIGGS, of Pittsfield, appealed from the decision of the Chair, but afterwards withdrew his appeal, and the decision was acquiesced in by the Convention.

At one o'clock, the Convention adjourned.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Met according to adjournment.

The Convention resumed the consideration of the Orders of the Day; the pending question being the amendment of Mr. Davis, of Plymouth, to the amendment of the Committee of the Whole.

Mr. ALLEN, of Worcester, moved the Previous Question; but afterwards withdrew the motion.

The amendment of Mr. Davis was then rejected.

On motion of Mr. ALLEY, of Lynn, sustained by a vote of one hundred and eighty-eight in the affirmative to eighty in the negative, the vote by which the yeas and nays were ordered upon the amendment of Mr. Thompson, of Charlestown, was reconsidered;

And the question recurring upon the demand for the yeas and nays, it was sustained by one-fifth of the members.

And the roll being called, one hundred and twenty-nine members voted for the amendment, and two hundred against it; so it was rejected.

Those who voted in the affirmative are :—

Messrs. Alfred A. Abbott,

P. Emory Aldrich,

James B. Allen,

Joel C. Allen,

William Aspinwall,

David C. Atwood,

George Austin,

Joseph Barrows,
Erasmus D. Beach,

John Beal,

George W. Blagden,
William J. A. Bradford,

Osmyn Brewster,
Francis Brinley,

George N. Briggs,

Asa Bronson,

Rufus Bullock,

Cephas C. Bumpus,

Timothy W. Carter,
Chester W. Chapin,

Messrs. Josiah Childs,

J. McKean Churchill,
Sumner Cole,
Ithamar Conkey,
George W. Crockett,
Leander Crosby,

Seth Crowell,

Joseph Cummings,
Charles G. Davis,
John Davis,

Robert T. Davis,
Solomon Davis,

Silas Dean,

William Dehon,

Hiram S. Denison,

Samuel Duncan,
James Easton, 2d,
Homer Ely,

A. G. Farwell,
Samuel P. Fowler,