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Bill providing for the choice of Representatives to Congress; read a second time, and the following amendment was proposed by Mr Hamlin to be inserted at the end of the 4th section, viz; "Provided, that after two unsuccessful trials, to elect a Representative or Representatives in any District; it is hereby enacted, that the person having at the third, or any subsequent trail, a greater number of votes than any other person, shall be deemed and taken to be elected"; and the question on adopting the same, being ordered to be taken by yeas and Nays, was decided in the negative as follows viz. Yeas, Messrs Hamlin Herrick McLellan Randall Scammon and Warren 6 Nays, Messrs Boutelle Bradbury Burnham Cobb Davee Drummond Emerson Gibson Howard Keith Knowlton Pease Read Smith Talbot Webb Williamson. 17