On the remainder of the section, (relative to prosecutions for libels,) Mr Van Buren called for the ayes and noes, which were then taken, and the question decided in the affirmative, as follows:

AYES—Messrs. Bacon, Baker, Barlow, Beckwith, Birdseye, Breese, Briggs, Brinkerhoff, Brooks, Buel, Burroughs, Carver, Case, Child, D. Clark, R. Clarke, Clyde, Collins, Cramer, Day, Dubois, Duer, Dyckman, Eastwood, Edwards, Fairlie, Fenton, Ferris, Fish, Frost, Hallock, Hees, Hogeboom, Howe, Humphrey, Hunt, Hunting, Huntington, Hurd, Jones, King, Knowles, Lansing, Lawrence, Lefferts, A. Livingston, P.R. Livingston, M'Call, Millikin, Moore, Munro, Nelson, Park, Paulding, Pike, Pitcher, Porter, Price, Pumpelly, Radcliff, Reeve, Richards, Rockwell, Rogers, Root, Rose, Rosebrugh, Ross, Russell, Sage, Sanders, N. Sanford, R. Sandford, Schenck, Seaman, Seely, Sharpe, Sheldon, I. Smith, R. Smith, Stagg, Starkweather, Steele, D. Southerland, I. Sutherland, Swift, Tallmadge, Taylor, Ten Eyck, Townley, Townsend, Tripp, Tuttle, Van Buren, Van Fleet, Van Horne, Van Ness, S. Van Rensselaer, Van Vechten, Verbryck, Ward, E. Webster, Wendover, Wheaton, Wheeler, Woods, Woodward, Wooster, Yates, Young—110.

NAYS—Messrs. Dodge, Hunter, Kent, Rhinelander, Spencer, Sylvester, J.R. Van Rensselaer, E. Williams, N. Williams—9.