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On motion of Mr. WATERS, of Millbury,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to consider the expediency of defining more clearly the power and the manner of removing justices of the peace for sufficient cause, the same being now involved in doubt and wholly impracticable.

On motion of Mr. DAVIS, of Acton,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Bill of Rights be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the same, that no person, by act of government, shall be released from paying his honest debts, whenever he has the ability so to do; and report thereon.

Mr. HALLETT, member for Wilbraham, from the Committee on the subject of the Council, submitted a Report and Resolves on that subject.

Referred to the Committee of the Whole and ordered to be printed. Mr. BROWN, of Douglas, moved that when the Convention adjourn, it adjourn to meet on Monday at three o'clock, P. M.

Mr. AUSTIN, of Swanzey, moved to substitute the hour of ten o'clock on Tuesday.

The question being on the motion of Mr. Austin, it was rejected. The motion of Mr. Brown was agreed to by a vote of one hundred and thirty-seven in the affirmative, and thirty-two in the negative. And then, on motion of Mr. OLIVER, of Lawrence, at half past one o'clock,

The Convention adjourned.

MONDAY, May 30, 1853.

Met according to adjournment. Prayer was offered by the Chaplain. The Journal of Saturday was read.

A communication was received from the Secretary of State, enclosing a list of the towns formed in this State since the year 1820. Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.

Mr. GOURGAS, of Concord, presented the Credentials of George S. Boutwell, elected a Delegate to the Convention from the town of Berlin.

Ordered to be placed on file.

On motion of Mr. WILSON, of Natick,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Secretary, Treasurer, &c., be instructed to consider the expediency of amending the Constitution,

so as to provide for the election by the people of the Commonwealth of a Prison Inspector.

On motion of Mr. LOTHROP, of Boston,

Ordered, That the Committee on the Qualifications of Voters, consider the expediency of providing that ability to read and write shall be an indispensable requisite for the exercise of the elective franchise in all elections held for the choice of town, city, county, and state officers.

Ordered, That the same committee consider the expediency of regarding the power to vote as a sacred trust, as well as a civil right, and of therefore providing that the neglect of this trust, that is, the neglect to vote,-when not caused by sickness, or absence from the State, shall be an offence punishable by fine, and if persevered in for a given term of years, shall work a forfeiture of the right to vote.

The following Order, offered by Mr. FRENCH, of Berkley, was referred to the Committee of the Whole.

Ordered, That the Committee on the Lieutenant-Governor inquire into the expediency of abolishing that office in this Commonwealth.

On motion of Mr. WARNER, of Wrentham, the Convention proceeded to the consideration of the Orders of the Day, the first matter being the Resolves on the subject of the governor.

On motion of Mr. THOMPSON, of Charlestown,

Ordered, That when the question is taken on the final passage of the Resolves, it be taken by yeas and nays.

And the roll being called, two hundred and eighty-nine members voted for the Resolves, and six members against them.

Those who voted in the affirmative are:

Messrs. Benjamin P. Adams,

Shubael P. Adams,

P. Emory Aldrich,

Charles Allen,

James B. Allen,

Joel C. Allen,

Parsons Allen,
John B. Alley,
Robert Andrews,
William Appleton,
Samuel Ayres,
Alvah Ballard,

George S. Ball,
Russell Bartlett,
Sidney Bartlett,

Messrs. Marcus Barrett,

Moses Bates, Jr.,
Erasmus D. Beach,

John Beal,

James M. Beebe,

Zephaniah Bennett,
Edward B. Bigelow,

Francis W. Bird,

George W. Blagden,

Gad O. Bliss,

George S. Boutwell,
Sewell Boutwell,

William J. A. Bradford,

Hiram N. Breed,

George N. Briggs,

Messrs. Adolphus F. Brown,

Alpheus R. Brown,

Artemas Brown,

Hammond Brown,

Joseph Brownell,

Amos H. Bullen,
Rufus Bullock,
Cephas C. Bumpus,
Anson Burlingame,
Benjamin F. Butler,
Henry Cady,

William Carruthers,
Isaac Case,

Amariah Chandler,

Daniel E. Chapin,
Josiah Childs,
Rufus Choate,

J. McKean Churchill,
Salah Clark,

Alpheus B. Clarke,
Stillman Clarke,
William Cleverly,
Jacob Coggin,

Nathaniel Cogswell,
Sumner Cole,
Ithamar Conkey,
Henry F. Cooledge,
George B. Crane,
Oliver S. Cressy,
Simeon Crittenden,
George W. Crockett,
Leander Crosby,
Joseph W. Cross,

Francis B. Crowninshield,

Joseph Cummings,

Thomas Cushman,

Simeon N. Cutler,

Richard H. Dana, Jr.,

Ebenezer Davis,

John Davis,

Robert T. Davis,

Solomon Davis,

Silas Dean, William Dehon, Elijah S. Deming, Augustus Denton, Alexander De Witt, James C. Doane, Samuel Duncan, Bradish Dunham, John M. Durgin, Philip Eames, John M. Earle,

Messrs. Peter Easland,

James Easton, 2d,

Lilley Eaton,

Elisha Edwards,

Homer Ely,

William T. Eustis, A. G. Farwell, James K. Fellows, Lyman Fisk, Emery Fiske, Ezekiel W. Fitch, Aaron Foster, Abram Foster,

Samuel Fowle,

Samuel P. Fowler, James M. Freeman, Charles A. French, Samuel French,

Richard Frothingham, Jr., Luther Gale,

Elbridge Gates,

Washington Gilbert,

Charles G. Giles,

Joel Giles,
Daniel W. Gooch,
Leonard Gooding,
Robert Gould,
Jason Goulding,
Francis R. Gourgas,
John W. Graves,
John C. Gray,
Jabez Green,

William B. Greene,
Samuel P. Hadley,
Artemas Hale,

Charles B. Hall,
Benjamin F. Hallett,
A. B. Hammond,
Lyman W. Hapgood,
Seth Hapgood,
Phineas Harmon,

William Haskins,

Elnathan P. Hathaway,

Stephen E. Hawkes,

Isaac Hayden,
Charles Heard,

Ezra Heath, 2d,

Samuel Henry,

Henry Hersey,

James Hewes,

William H. Hewes,

Levi Heywood,

William Hinsdale,

Messrs. Aaron Hobart,

Henry Hobart,

Edwin Hobbs,

Nathaniel Holder,
George Hood,

Thomas Hopkinson,

Samuel Houghton,
Martin Howard,
William J. Hubbard,
William Hunt,

Charles P. Huntington,
George H. Huntington,
Moses C. Hurlbut,
Benjamin D. Hyde,
John Jacobs,
Samuel H. Jenks,
John Johnson,
Giles C. Kellogg,
Isaac Kendall,
Edward L. Keyes,
Joseph Kimball,
Joseph Kingman,
Henry W. Kinsman,
Jefferson Knight,
Joseph Knight,
J. S. C. Knowlton,
William H. Knowlton,
George H. Kuhn,
Gardner P. Ladd,

John S. Ladd,

Job G. Lawton, Jr.,

Alden Leland,
Abishai Lincoln,

Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.,
Tristram Littlefield,
Isaac Livermore,
Samuel K. Lothrop,
Samuel P. Loud,
John A. Lowell,
William P. Marble,
Laban Marcy,
Abijah P. Marvin,
Reuben Meader,

Simeon Merritt,

Samuel Mixter,

James L. Monroe,
Joseph B. Morss,
Marcus Morton,

Marcus Morton, Jr.,

William S. Morton, Hiram Nash,

Jonathan Nayson,

Charles Newman,

Messrs. William Nichols,
Daniel Noyes,

Andrew T. Nute,

Henry K. Oliver,
Nathan Orcutt,
Benjamin S. Orne,
Charles Osgood,
E. Wing Packer,
Benjamin Paine,
Henry Paine,
John G. Park,
Adolphus G. Parker,
Joel Parker,
Samuel D. Parker,
Jonathan Parris,
John Partridge,
Thomas E. Payson,
Nathaniel Peabody,
John Penniman,
Daniel A. Perkins,
Noah C. Perkins,
Charles Phelps,
Henry Pierce,
James M. Pool,
Peter Powers,
George Putnam,
John A. Putnam,
Robert Rantoul,
Silas Rawson,
James Read,
Sampson Reed,
David Rice,

Luther Richards,

Samuel H. Richardson,
Elkanah Ring, Jr.,
John Rogers,
James C. Royce,
George R. Sampson,

Chester Sanderson,

John Sargent,
William Schouler,
John Sherril,
Chester Sikes,
John S. Sleeper,
Matthew Smith,
John Souther,
Melzar Sprague,
Samuel W. Spooner,
Charles G. Stevens,
Granville Stevens,
Joseph L. Stevens, Jr.,

William Stevens,

Alfred L. Strong,

Messrs. Charles Sumner,

Increase Sumner,

Alanson Swain,

Arnold Taft,

Thomas Talbot,

Ralph Taylor,
Joseph Thayer,
Willard Thayer, 2d,

John W. Thomas,
Charles Thompson,
Edmund P. Tileston,
Abraham Tilton,
Horatio W. Tilton,
Ephraim Tower,
Charles R. Train,

David Turner,
William Tyler,
Orison Underwood,
Charles W. Upham,
George B. Upton,
Joel Viles,

Freeland Wallis,

Samuel Walker,

Andrew H. Ward,

Messrs. Marshal Warner,

Those who voted in the negative are:—

Messrs. William Aspinwall,

David C. Atwood,

Benjamin F. Copeland,

Samuel Warner, Jr.,

Cyrus Weeks,

Gershom B. Weston,

William F. Wheeler,

Benjamin White,
George White,
Daniel S. Whitney,
Daniel Wilbur,

Joel Wilder,
John H. Wilkins,
Henry Williams,
J. B. Williams,
Henry Wilson,
Milo Wilson,
Willard Wilson,
Jonathan B. Winn,
Levi M. Winslow,
Nathaniel Wood,
Otis Wood,

William H. Wood,

Josiah B. Woods,

Ezekiel Wright.

Messrs. Samuel Edwards,

Dalton Goulding,
Samuel B. Walcott.

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So the Resolves were finally passed, as follow:

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Resolved, That it is expedient, to alter and amend the Constitution, so as to provide that no person except a citizen of Massachusetts, shall be eligible to the office of governor.

Resolved, That it is expedient to alter and amend the Constitution, by abolishing the property qualification for governor.

Resolved, That it is expedient to alter and amend the Constitution, so as to provide for the election of governor, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November, annually.

Resolved, That it is expedient to alter and amend the Constitution, so as to provide that in case of the failure of an election of governor by the people, he shall be elected by the Senate and House of Representatives, by joint ballot.

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 Frame of Government, on the subject of the name "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts," and

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