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Which were read, and
Severally referred to the Committee upon the Judiciary
Department.
Mr. Pleasants submitted the following order :
Ordered, That it is the sense of this Convention, that the
question of removing the disability heretofore imposed on ne-
groes, to testify in Courts of Justice, ought to be settled by
this Convention, and that the Constitution now being framed
ought to contain a provision removing such disability ;
Pending the consideration of which,
Mr. Pleasants moved the previous question,
The question being,
"Shall the main question be now put ?"
Mr. Wickes demanded the yeas and nays,
The demand being sustained,
The yeas and nays were called and appeared as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.
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Messrs.
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Garey,
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McCormick,
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Carmichael, Pt.,
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George,
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Merryman,
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Alvey,
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Giddings,
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Motter,
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Barnes,
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Gill,
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Murray,
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Bateman,
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Goldsborough, T.
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Nicolai,
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Bell,
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Hayden,
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Page,
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Bennett,
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Hoblitzell,
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Parran, John
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Brent,
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Hollyday,
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Perry,
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Brewer, B. city,
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Horsey, of F.,
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Pleasants,
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Brown,
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Howard,
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Pole, '
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Buchanan,
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Howison,
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Ritchie,
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Carter,
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Ireland,
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Spates,
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Chambers,
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Jones,
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Stoddert,
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Cover,
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Kennedy,
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Syester,
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Devries,
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Kilbourn,
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Vansant,
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Dobbin,
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Lee,
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Wallace,
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Ferry,
Flaherty,
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Longwell,
Mackubin,
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Walsh,
Whitman,
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Franck,
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Manro,
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Wilkinson— 58,
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Galt,
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Maulsby,
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NEGATIVE.
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Messrs.
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Hammorid,
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Peters,
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Archer,
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Hodson,
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Rennolds,
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Rider
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Brooke,
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Hubbard,
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Riggs,
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Dorsey,
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Jamison,
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Ringgold,
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