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Legislature of Maine In Convention of the two Houses February 9th 1830

 The House of Representatives having proposed to the Senate a Convention of the Members of the two Houses on the 2nd inst. for the purpose of supplying deficiencies in the Senate, and the Senate having nonconcurred the House in that proposition, for the reason that it had not adjudged the elections of its own members, had not ascertained what deficiencies (if any) existed in that body, nor decided who were the constitutional candidates to supply and supposed deficiency; And the House of Representatives and some members of the Senate less than a majority and without the presence of the President or Secretary thereof, having proceeded in such convention, thus unconstitutionally formed to elect, and did elect Nathan D Appleton Abijah Usher Junr, John Bodwell & Obadiah Hill to supply supposed deficiencies in the Senate, against the dissent and protestations of the undersigned in that behalf.
  And the Senate and House of Representatives having assembled in Convention on this 9th day of February for the purpose of choosing Counsellors, Secretary & Treasurer of State, and it having been determined by a majority of this Convention, that the said Appleton, Usher & Bodwell be permitted to act in this convention as members thereof - 
We the undersigned therefore, Members of the two Houses respectively, do hereby signify our dissent to, and do solemnly Protest against the right of said Appleton, Usher & Bodwell to sit and vote in this Convention.
  Because the said Convention of the 2nd inst. was not constitutionally formed, the consent of the Senate not having been had thereto.