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must be taken to mean an election made by a Convention of the Senate and House of Representatives, to wit: a Convention formed by the previous agreement and concurrence of the two Houses that such Convention should be formed at a specified time and place: and
Whereas the Senate has never, by a vote of the majority of its Members, decided the number of Senators deficient in York District; nor by such vote ascertained who are the Constitutional Candidates from whom any deficiencies, that may eventually be found to exist in said District, must be supplied; nor by such vote agreed to and accepted, nor rejected, that part of the report on Senatorial votes which declares one Senator deficient in said District, and that Moses Sweat and James Goodwin are the Constitutional Candidates from whom one Senator is to be elected to supply said deficiency; no vote of the Senate having yet been taken on that part of said Report which declares one Senator deficient in Washington District and that Charles Peavy and Obadiah Hill are the Constitutional Candidates from whom such deficiency is to be supplied: but by not accepting that part of said