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a choice made by the two Houses valid, which was not so without such act; for in doing so it would exercise a power not given it by the constitution, and which can be exercised only by the two Houses in convention. Against the right, then of the said Appleton, Usher & Bodwell to sit and vote in this convention, the undersigned hereby Protest as destructive to, and subversive of, the rights of the people of this State and of both branches of the Legislature, and of all those just principles by which the constitution and the laws have regulated our elections.

Daniel Hutchinson Sargent Shaw Eben Knowlton John P. Wedgwood Joseph Fogg John Wentworth A. Richardson P.L. Glidden Jos. Johnson Eliab Latham Joseph C. Small Anson G. Chandler Dominicus Jordan Peter Rowe Nathan Lord Jun. John Lermond James Strout Joseph Kelsey Jabez Bradbury Robert Lambert David Swett Stillman Howard Daniel Waterman Jun. Abner Kezar Abraham Thomas

Robert P. Dunlap Theodore Ingalls John L. Megquire Thomas Daves Joseph G. Cole Stephen Morrell Charles Hutchings Jun. John Burnham James Steele Benj. White Jos. Howard Joseph Bonney Ephraim Stinchfield Phinehas Frost Abraham Bean Lemuel Bartlett Curtis P. Howe Timothy Spinney Thomas Goodwin 3rd Reuben Bartlett Silas Barnard Albert Smith Jacob Trafton H.H. Hutchinson Joseph Tobin