Mr. R. Clarke explained his object in offering the resolution. If the amendments were not incorporated with the remaining parts of the old constitution, and presented in connexion, the people would never be able to comprehend the subject; and it would take another Convention of lawyers to interpret the amendments.

The resolution was further supported by Messrs. Young, Sharpe, and Van Buren, when the question was taken by ayes and noes, and decided in the affirmative, 94 to 17, by all the members present, excepting Messrs. Birdseye, Buel, Edwards, Hees, Huntington, Jay, King, Paulding, Rhinelander, R. Smith, Sylvester, Van Horne, J.R. Van Rensselaer, Van Vechten, Wheaton, E. Williams, and Yates, who voted in the negative.