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Senate have refused, on a motion made for that purpose, to send a message to this House proposing to elect by joint ballot the number of Senators required by the Constitution, according to the usage which has heretofore prevailed in such cases -

In consequence of which, no other alternative seems to be presented, but that the public business shall be left undone, the wheels of government stopped, & the Constitution prostrated - or this House must proceed, in the mode prescribed by the Constitution, to have the vacancies in the Senate filled, the Councilors chosen, & the votes for Governor declared & published, the public business of the State dispatched, and the just expectations of the people fulfilled Therefore,

Ordered, That a message be sent to the Senate requesting such Senators, as have been elected, to meet the members of the House in the Hall of the House of Representatives, this day, at half past oclock in the afternoon, & elect by joint ballot the number of Senators required.