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In the county of Racine, eight delegates.
In the county of Milwaukee, seven delegates.
In the county of Walworth, six delegates.
In the county of Rock, six delegates.
In the county of Grant, five delegates.

In the county of Jefferson, four delegates.

In the county of La Fayette, three delegates.

In the counties of Iowa and Richland, three delegates.

In the county of Dane, three delegates.

In the county of Dodge, three delegates.

In the county of Washington, three delegates.

In the county of Green, two delegates.

In the county of Fond du Lac, two delegates.

In the counties of Sheboygan and Manitouwoc, one delegate.

In the counties of Brown and Calumet, two delegates. In the counties of Winnebago and Marquette, one dèle-. gate.

In the counties of Portage and Sauk, one delegate.

In the counties of Crawford and Chippewa, one delegate. In the counties of St. Croix and La Pointe, one delegate. In the county of Columbia, one delegate."

Which report was accepted, and the committee discharged from the further consideration of the subject.

And the question being on the adoption of the amendment as reported by said committee,

Mr. Jackson moved to amend said amendment as follows, to wit:

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And the question having been put on said amendment,

It was decided in the negative.

And the ayes and noes having been called for,

Those who voted in the affirmative were,

Messrs. Babcock, Botkin, Burns, Burt, Featherstonhaugh, Gibson, Holliday, Jackson, Pole, Stewart, Virgin, and Williston,-12.

Those who voted in the negative were,

Messrs. Cass, Cothren, Drake, Gardner, Hanrahan, Kinney, Martin, Mooers, Newell, Patch, Reed, Wakeley, Walworth, and Walker, (Speaker,)—14.

Mr. Jackson moved to amend the amendment as reported by said committee, by striking out the words "Crawford and Chippewa," and inserting in lieu thereof the words. "Crawford one delegate, Chippewa and La Pointe one del. egate, St. Croix, one delegate."

And the question having been put on said amendment,

It was decided in the negative.

And a division having been called for,,

There were 9 in the affirmative, and 13 in the negative. Mr. Gibson moved to amend the amendment as reported by said committee, by striking out "the counties of Mar quette and Winnebago, one," and inserting in lieu thereof, "the county of Marquette, one delegate; the county of Winnebago, one delegate ;" and by striking out "the counties of Calumet and Brown, two delegates," and inserting in lieu thereof, "the county of Brown, one delegate; the county of Calumet. one delegate."

Mr. Cothren called for a division of the question.

And the question having been put on the first paragraph of the amendment,

It was disagreed to.

And the question having been put on the second paragraph of the amendment which was to strike out the words "in the counties of Calumet and Brown, two delegates," and insert in lieu thereof "in the county of Brown, one delegate; in the county of Calumet, one delegate,"

It was agreed to.

The question then recurred on the adoption of the amend ment reported by said committee as amended by the house. And having been put,

It was decided in the affirmative.

And the ayes and noes having been called for,

Those who voted in the affirmative were,

Messrs. Babcock, Cass, Cothren, Drake, Gardner, Gibson, Hanrahan, Kinney, Mooers, Newell, Reed, Wakeley, Walworth, and Walker, (speaker,)—14.

Those who voted in the negative were,

Messrs. Botkin, Burns, Burt, Featherstonhaugh, Holliday, Jackson, Martin, Patch, Pole, Stewart Virgin, and Williston,-12.

Mr. Holliday moved to reconsider the vote by which the first and second blanks in section twenty-two were filled with the figures 850.

Which was agreed to.

And the question having been put on filling said blanks with the figures 850.

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It was disagreed to.

Mr. Holliday moved to fill said blanks with the figures 690;
Which was agreed to.

Mr. Martin moved to amend said bill by striking out the word "six," in the third line of section one, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "three;"

Which was disagreed to.

Mr. Williston moved to amend section one of said bill by striking out the word "White," in the first line,

And the question having been put on said amendment, It was decided in the negative.

And the ayes and noes having been called for,

Those who voted in the affirmative were,

Messrs. Babcock, Cass, Drake, Gibson, Martin, and Williston,-6.

Those who voted in the negative were,

Messrs. Botkin, Burt, Burns, Cothren, Featherstonhaugh, Gardner, Hanrahan, Holliday, Jackson, Kinney, Mooers, Newell, Patch, Pole, Reed, Stewart, Virgin, Wakeley, Walworth, and Walker, (Speaker.)—20.

Mr. Reed moved to amend section one of said bill by striking out all after the figures "1817," to the end of the original section, and inserting the following in lieu thereof, to wit:

"Every white male inhabitant of the age of twenty-one years and upwards who shall have resided in the territory six months next preceding such election, and who shall be a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such according to the naturalization laws of the United States, or who shall have taken before some officer duly authorized to administer oaths and filed the same with the clerk of the court of his own county or district, an oath to support the constitution of the United States, and to renounce all allegiance to any foreign state or government, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the county in which he shall have resided for ten days next previous thereto; and every person qualified by this act to vote at such

election shall be competent to be elected a delegate in the convention for the county in which he resides,"

And the question having been put on said amendment,
It was decided in the negative.

And the ayes and noes having been called for,

Those who voted in the affirmative were,

Messrs. Cass, Drake, Featherstonhaugh, Gardner, Hanrahan, Martin, Newell, Reed, Stewart, Walworth, and Walker, (Speaker,)-11.

Those who voted in the negative were,

Messrs. Babcock, Botkin, Burns, Burt, Cothren, Holliday, Kinney, Mooers, Patch, Pole, Virgin, Wakeley, and Williston,-13.

Mr. Wakely moved to amend section four as follows, to wit:

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Strike out all after the word "county," at the end of the twenty-first line down to the word "and," in the thirty-second line, and insert as follows, except that the returns of Richland county shall be transmitted to the county of Iowa. The returns of Manitouwoc county shall be transmitted to the county of Sheboygan. The returns of the county of Winnebago shall be transmitted to the county of Marquette. The returns of the county of Portage shall be transmitted to the county of Sauk. The returns of the county of Chippewa shall be transmitted to the county of Crawford; and the returns of the county of La Pointe shall be transmitted to the county of St. Croix." and

Insert in line thirty-fourth after the word "county," the words "or district;"

Which was agreed to.

Mr. Holliday demanded the previous question.

And the question having been put,

"Shall the main question be now put?"

It was decided in the affirmative.

The main question being on ordering said bill to a third

reading, was then put,

And decided in the affirmative.

And the ayes and noes having been called for,

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