article of the amended Constitution, and until appointments shall be made under such laws, unless their commissions shall be superseded by new appointments, or shall sooner expire by their own limitations, or the said offices shall become vacant by death or resignation, and such laws shall be enacted by the first Legislature under the amended Constitution.

XII. The first election for Aldermen and Justices of the Peace shall be held in the year eighteen hundred and forty, at the time fixed for the election of Constables. The Legislature, at its first session under the amended Constitution, shall provide for the said election, and for subsequent similar elections. The Aldermen and Justices of the Peace now

in commission, or who may in the interim be appointed, shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices, until fifteen days after the day which shall be fixed by law for the issuing of new commissions, at the expiration of which time their commissions shall expire. In testimony that the foregoing is the amended Constitution of Pennsylvania, as agreed to in Convention, WE, the Officers and Members of the Convention, have hereunto signed our names, at Philadelphia, the twenty-second day of February, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the sixtysecond.

DANIEL AGNEW,

WM. AYRES,

M. W. BALDWIN,
EPHRAIM BANKS,
JOHN Y. BARCLAY,
JACOB BARNDOLLAR,

CHAS. A. BARNITZ,
ANDREW BEDFORD,

THOS. S. BELL,

JAMES CORNELL BIDDLE,

LEBBEUS L. BIGELOW,

SAML. C. BONHAM,

CHAS. BROWN,

JEREMIAH BROWN,

WILLIAM BROWN,

PIERCE BUTLER,

SAMUEL CAREY,
JOHN CUMMIN,
T. S CUNNINGHAM,
WILLIAM CURLL,
WM. DARLINGTON,
GEORGE CHAMBERS,
JOHN CHANDLER,
JOS. R. CHANDLER,

VOL.

CHAS. CHAUNCEY,
NATHANIEL CLAPP,
JAMES CLARKE,
JOHN CLARKE,
WM. CLARK,
A. J. CLINE,
LINDLEY COATES,
R. E. COCHRAN,
THOS. P. COPE,
JOSHUA F. COX,
WALTER CRAIG,
RICHARD CRAIN,
GEO. T. CRAWFORD,
CORNELIUS crum,
BENJAMIN MARTIN,
JOHN J. M'CAHEN,
E. T. M'DOWELL,
JAMES M'SHERRY,
MARK DARRAH,
HARMAR DENNY,

JOHN DICKEY,

JOSHUA DICKERSON,

JACOB DILLINGER,

JAMES DONAGAN,
J. R. DONNELL,
JOS. M. DORAN,
JAS. DUNLOP,
THOMAS EARLE,
D. M. FARRELLY,
ROBERT FLEMING,
WALTER FORWARD,
JOHN FOULKROD,
JOSEPH FRY, Jr.

JOHN FULLER,

JOHN A. GAMBLE,

WILLIAM GEARHART,
DAVID GILMORE,

VIRGIL GRENELL,
WILLIAM L. HARRIS,
THOMAS HASTINGS,
EZRA S. HAYHURST,
WILLIAM HAYES,
A. HELFFENSTEIN,
M. HENDERSON,
WM. HENDERSON,
WM. HIESTER,
WILLIAM HIGH,
JOS. HOPKINSON,

JOHN HOUPT,

JABEZ HYDE,

CHAS. J. INGERSOLL,

PHINEAS JENKS,

ALEX. MAGEE,
JOEL KI MANN, T
WM. M. MEREDITH,
JAS. MERRILL,

LEVI MERKEL, DE
WM LA MILLER,
JAS. MONTGOMERY,
CHRISTIAN MYERS,
D. NEVIN, A
WM. OVERFIELD,
HIRAM PAYNE,
M. PENNYPACKER,
JAMES PORTER,

J. M. PORTER,
✓ S. A. PURVIANCE

JAMES POLLOCK,
EAC. REIGART,
A. H. READ,
G. W.RITER,
JOHN RITTER
H G. ROGERS,
S. ROYER, I
J. M. RUSSELL,
DANIEL SEAGER,
JOHN M. SCOTT,
TOBIAS SELLERS,
G. SELTZER,
GEO. SERRILI,
HENRY SCHEETZ,
GEO. SHELLITO,

THOMAS H. SILL,

GEO. SMITH,

WM. SMYTH,

JOSEPH SNIVELY,

JOHN B. STERIGERE,

JACOB STICKEL,

E. M. STURDEVANT,
THOMAS TAGGART,
M. J. THOMAS,,;
JAMES TODD,

T. WEAVER,

J. B. WEIDMAN,

R. G. WHITE,

GEO. W. WOODWARD.
R. YOUNG,

A motion was made by Mr. CLARKE, of Indiana,
That the convention do now adjourn sine die. A TOV
And on the question,

Will the convention agree to the motion!

The yeas and nays were required by Mr. CLARKE,

YEAS-Messrs. Agnew, Baldwin, Banks, Bedford, Bell, Biddle, Bigelow, Bonham, Brown, of Northampton, Brown, of Philadelphia, Butler, Chambers, Chandler, of Philadelphia, Clarke, of Beaver, Clark, of Dauphin, Clarke, of Indiana, Cox, Crain, Crawford, Crum, Cummin, Darlington, Darrah, Denny, Dickey, Donnell, Dunlop, Earle, Gilmor Grenell Harris, Hastings, Hayhurst Helffenstein, Hiester, Houpt, Hyde, Jenks Konigmacher, Krebs, Lyons, Magées Martin, M'Caben, M'Dowell, M'sherryyd Ingersoll Meredith, Merkel, Miller, Montgomery, Myers, Overfieldot Payne, Pennypackeria Porter, of Lancaster, Porter, of Northampton, Ritter, Rogers, Royer, Russell Scott, 199 Sellers, Seltzer, Serrill, Shellito, Sill, Smith, of Columbia, Smyth, of Centre, Shively, 10 Sterigere, Sückel, Sturdevant, Taggart, Todd, Weaver W Young, Sergeant Presidente il taver Weidman, White, Woodward, So the question was determined in the all The convention adjourned.

affirmative; and,

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SAMUEL SHOCH, Secretary.
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VOTE OF THE PEOPLE

ON THE

CONSTITUTION AND AMENDMENTS.

The amendments to the constitution, adopted by this convention, having been published in the form and manner prescribed, were submitted to the people for their acceptance or rejection, at the ensuing. general election, throughout the commonwealth, on the second Tuesday of October, 1838. On Tusday, December eleven, the returns from the different counties, were opened by the speaker, in the presence of the senate, as appears in the following extract from the journal of that, body.

Agreeable to order,

The speaker and members of the senate and house of representatives met in the senate chamber, for the purpose of opening and publishing the returns of the votes given, at the late election, for and against the amendments proposed by the convention to amend the constitutionMessrs. FRALEY (city) and KINGSBURY being appointed tellers.

The returns having been opened, read, and summed up,

Messrs. FRALEY (city) and KINGSBURY, the tellers aforesaid, made a report, which was read as follows, viz:

In pursuance of an act of the general assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act providing for the call of a convention to propose amendments to the constitution of the state, to be submitted to the people thereof, for their ratification or rejection." passed the twenty-ninth day of March, A. D. 1836, the speaker of the senate and the members of the senate and house of representatives of the said commonwealth, assembled in the senate chamber, at Harrisburg, on Tuesday the eleventh day of December, in the year one thousand eight hur.dred and thirty-eight; and the speaker of the senate, in the presence of the members aforesaid, did open and publish the returns of the election held on the ninth day of October, in the year last aforesaid, for and against the amendments proposed by the said convention, in the several coun ties of this commonwealth, as follows, viz: