The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

Chillicothe, November 20.

CONVENTION.
Extract from the journal
Saturday, November 15.

The convention according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole convention, on the resolution for submitting the constitution or frame of government, now preparing, to the people of the eastern division of the Territory North-west of the Ohio, for their acceptance or disapprobation, Mr. Byrd in the chair, and after some time spent therein, Mr. President resumed the chair and Mr. Byrd reported, that the committee had according to order, had the said resolution under consideration, and directed him to report to the convention their disagreement to the same.

On the question that the convention do agree with the committee of the whole convention, in their disagreement to the said resolution, in the words following :—

Resolved, that the constitution or frame of government, by the convention prepared for the people of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the Ohio, be submitted to them for their acceptance and confirmation in the following manner to wit: Meetings of the people for that purpose shall be holden in the several election districts in each county on the day of next, at which meeting the opinion of the people shall be taken, by ballot, those who are for accepting the constitution shall give in a ballot with the word yea wrote thereon, and those in the negative opinion, a ballot with the word nay on it. Judges shall be chosen to preside, who shall receive, count and certify the number of yeas and nays to the prothonotary, in the same manner as provided by law for the election of representatives to the general assembly; the prothonotaries in the presence of the sheriff and two justices of the peace shall count the yeas and nays, & make return thereof, sealed up to on or before the day of

And be it further resolved, That be and they are hereby appointed a committee who on the day of next, shall meet at and they or a majority of them, shall open the returns of the several prothonotaries and count the numbers of the yeas and nays, and if there appears a majority of the people for accepting the constitution, the committee shall give notice thereof in the newspapers printed at Cincinnati, Chillicothe and Marietta; and the election of the governor and members of the two houses of the general assembly, shall proceed as provided for by the constitution. But if it appears that there is not a majority of the people for accepting of the constitution, then the committee aforesaid be and they are hereby vested with power in the name and by the authority of this convention, to call another convention for the purpose of amending this or forming a constitution to be confirmed by the said convention without further reference to the people."

It was resolved in the affirmative— yeas 27, nays 7. Those who voted in the affirmative are,

Messrs. Abbot, Abrams, Baldwin, Bear, Brown, Byrd, Caldwell, Carpenter, Darlington, Donaldson, Dunlavy. Gatch, Goforth, Grubb, Humphreys, Huntington, Kirker, Kitchel, Mailie, Milligan, Morrow, Paul, Sargeant, Smith, Wilson, Wood and Worthington.

Those who voted in the negative are,

Messrs. Cutler, Gilman, M'Intire, Putnam, Reily, Updegraff and Wells.