The second Resolve was agreed to, and ordered to a second reading, by a vote of seventy-three in the affirmative, to forty-one in the negative.

At half-past six o'clock, on motion of Mr. PLUNKETT, of Adams, The Convention adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, July 27, 1853.

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

The Order offered yesterday, by Mr. Mixter, of New Braintree, and laid over, was taken up, amended and adopted, as follows:

Ordered, That the Secretary be directed to send to each of the towns in this Commonwealth that have not sent a Delegate to this Convention, one copy of Barnes's Constitutions of the United States, one copy of the Journal of the Massachusetts Convention of 1820, and one copy of the Journal and Debates of this Convention.

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 right of juries to judge of the law, &c.

After debate, Mr. WALKER, of North Brookfield, moved the Previous Question; which was ordered, by a vote of one hundred and fifty-nine in the affirmative, to seventy-five in the negative.

On motion of Mr. GARDNER, of Seekonk, the yeas and nays were ordered upon the question of agreeing to the Resolve;

And the roll being called, one hundred and ninety-two members voted in the affirmative, and one hundred and forty-six in the negative.

So the Resolve was ordered to a second reading.

Those who voted in the affirmative are:

Messrs. Josiah G. Abbott,

Shubael P. Adams,

Charles Allen,

Messrs. Joseph W. Cross,

Thomas Cushman,
Simeon N. Cutler,

James B. Allen,

John B. Alley,

Josiah Allis,

D. W. Alvord,
George Austin,
Hillel Baker,
Alpheus Bancroft,
Marcus Barrett,
Eliakim A. Bates,
Moses Bates, Jr.,
John Beal,
Zephaniah Bennett,
Edward B. Bigelow,
Francis W. Bird,
George S. Boutwell,
Sewell Boutwell,
Hiram N. Breed,
Asa Bronson,

Adolphus F. Brown,
Alpheus R. Brown,
Hammond Brown,

Hiram C. Brown,

Joseph Brownell,

Patrick Bryant,

Anson Burlingame,
William Carruthers,
Isaac Case,

Chester W. Chapin,
Daniel E. Chapin,
Henry Chapin,
J. McKean Churchill,

Henry Clark,
Ransom Clark,
Salah Clark,
William Cleverly,
Sumner Cole,
George B. Crane,

Charles G. Davis,

Isaac Davis,

Gilman Day,
Silas Dean,

Augustus Denton,
Samuel Duncan,
Bradish Dunham,
John M. Durgin,
John M. Earle,
Peter Easland,
Elisha Edwards,
Joseph M. Ely,

James K. Fellows,
Lyman Fisk,

Emery Fiske,
Abram Foster,
James M. Freeman,
Charles A. French,
Rodney French,

Samuel French,

Richard Frothingham, Jr.,
Johnson Gardner,

Elbridge Gates,

Washington Gilbert,

Charles G. Giles,
Daniel W. Gooch,
Leonard Gooding,
John W. Graves,
Josiah W. Griswold,
Whiting Griswold,
Samuel P. Hadley,
Benjamin F. Hallett,
Lyman W. Hapgood,
Seth Hapgood,
William Haskins,
Stephen E. Hawkes,

Isaac Hayden,

Messrs. Henry W. Kinsman,

Joseph Knight,

George H. Kuhn,

John S. Ladd,

Job G. Lawton, Jr.,

Abishai Lincoln,

Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.,

Isaac Livermore,

Otis P. Lord,

Samuel K. Lothrop,
Samuel P. Loud,
Seth Miller, Jr.,
Samuel Mixter,
George Morey,
Jonathan Nayson,
Daniel Noyes,
Henry K. Oliver,
Nathan Orcutt,
John G. Park,
Adolphus G. Parker,
Joel Parker,

Jonathan C. Perkins,

William C. Plunkett,

Jeremiah Pomroy,

James Read,

Sampson Reed,

Messrs. George R. Sampson,
John Sargent,

William Schouler,
Chester Sikes,
John S. Sleeper,
Matthew Smith,

John Souther,
Caleb Stetson,

Charles G. Stevens,

Granville Stevens,

Increase Sumner,

Edmund P. Tileston,

Charles R. Train,

David Turner,
George B. Upton,
Samuel B. Walcott,

Samuel Walker,

Cyrus Weeks,

William F. Wheeler,
Benjamin White,
Joel Wilder,
John H. Wilkins,
J. B. Williams,
Milo Wilson,
Jonathan B. Winn,
Josiah B. Woods.

The Resolve on the subject of legal remedies to the representatives of persons killed by the negligence or misconduct of railroad corporations, was, on motion of Mr. DAVIS, of Plymouth,

Laid upon the table.

The Resolve on the subject of the law martial, was, on motion of Mr. CHURCHILL, of Milton, by a vote of seventy-seven in the affirmative, to fifty-seven in the negative,

Laid upon the table.

Mr. BIRD, of Walpole, called for the yeas and nays upon the question of laying the Resolve upon the table; but the call was not sustained by one-fifth of the members.

On motion of Mr. SCHOULER, of Boston, the Orders of the Day were laid upon the table;

And at a quarter before two o'clock, on motion of Mr. ScHouler, The Convention adjourned.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Met according to adjournment.

Leave of absence was granted to Mr. Huntington, of Becket, for the remainder of the session.