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GENEALOGY 975.6 N81S V.22, PT.1
REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01797 3188
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THE
STATE RECORDS
OF
NORTH CAROLINA.
PUBLISHED UNDER TIIE SUPERVISION OF THE TRUS- TEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES, BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
WALTER CLARK,
CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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VOL. XXII.
MISCELLANEOUS
NASH BROTHERS, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. GOLDSBORO, N. C. 1907. 2Cl
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PREFATORY NOTES.
But few volumes of the Colonial and State Records contain more interesting information than the twenty-second. It contains the Journals of the Constitutional Conventions of 1788 and of 1789, the latter of which, at least, has been heretofore inaccessible, although the debates in the former have in a measure been preserved through the liberality of James Iredell and General Davie. For five days the Convention of 1789 discussed the Constitution, which then was in force in the other States, except Rhode Island, Washington having become President in the previous March. The discussion was thor- ough, and eight amendments were proposed by the Convention; but whereas in the previous Convention the Constitution was neither ratified nor rejected by a vote of 184 to 83, being 101 majority, now the Constitution was adopted by a vote of 195 to 77, a majority of 118. The change of sentiment indicated by these figures was remark- able; but there are some contemporaneons expressions of opinion that if Virginia had not acceded to the Constitution, North Carolina would not have done so.
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Some interesting data has been collected with regard to the several "alarms" made on the coast by Spanish invasions. In 1741 some Spanish privateers took possession of Ocracoke Inlet, seized the vessels arriving, landed and destroyed the cattle of the inhabitants, and devastated the country. Vessels of provisions were sent for the relief of the sufferers, at a cost to the Province of more than ten thousand pounds.
In June, 1747, the Spaniards took possession of the town and harbor of Beaufort, and Colonel Thomas Loviek called out his regiment to repel them. Major Enoch Ward was on duty with fifty- eight men when the town was taken on 26 Angust, and the alarm continued until 10 September, although probably the Spaniards departed earlier. On 6 September William Moore brought in his bill against the public for fifteen hundred pounds of beef for main- taining and imprisoning ten Spanish negroes, and for a gun which had burst in time of action which he said cost him eighty pounds, These Spanish vessels were largely manned by negroes and mulattoes.
In like manner, there were two alarms on the Cape Fear in the following year. It was early in September, 1748, that the Spanish cruisers made an attack on Brunswick, one of the vessels being blown
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up and destroyed. Major John Swan seems to have had the direc- tion of the defence. He turned over to Dr. Samuel Green several of the Spanish soldiers who were wounded and some who were badly burnt when the vessel was blown up. The doctor seems to have taken good care of the prisoners and to have charged reasonably for his dressing, nursing and attention; while William Carver charged the public with keeping twenty-nine Spaniards. It was from this vessel that the picture was obtained which is still preserved by the Vestry of St. James Church at Wihnington.
The editor has thought that it would be interesting to embrace in this volume the wills of Governor Gabriel Johnston, Matthew Rowan, Arthur Dobbs, and Colonel Thomas Pollock as throwing light on the period in which they lived.
On page 314 in the return of Colonel Rutherford's Regiment of the Bladen Militia for the year 1754 will be found some remarks of interest in regard to the inhabitants "on Drowning Creek, ou the head of Little Peedee, fifty men, a mixed erew, a lawless people, filleth the lands without patent or paying quit-rent. Shot a surveyor for coming to view their lands, being enclosed in great swamps." "No arms, stores, or Indians in the County." Another item of interest is a recommendation of Colonel Rutherford that the Quakers in Bladen should be required to attend minsters or pay as they do in the northern counties. Although there were no Indians in Bladen, which then embraced Robeson, evidently there was a Quaker settle- ment as early as 1754. The rosters of the militia at that dato given for many of the counties will be found interesting and instructive.
The volume is rich in Revolutionary matter. There is much cor- respondence throwing light on the incidents of 1776 as well as of 1781.
After Sir Peter Parker's fleet had sailed from the Cape Fear harbor, there was taken James Bowen, generally called the black lawyer, who as Judge of Admiralty in the British fleet condenmed fourteen vessels, captured by that fleet. There still remained fifteen sails in the harbor. One of the British vessels getting aground at Charleston, General Lee sent a floating battery and some boats to take her. On board were found fifty-four Highlanders and Regu- lators who had sought shelter with Governor Martin, while on another vessel remaining at Cape Fear there were still more of these Tories who had been apportioned into companies and officers appointed over them.
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The correspondence for 1781 when the Tories were so active from Surry to Brunswick well supplements the letters and reports hereto- fore published in these Records. Taken together, they remove much of the obscurity in which the operations of that period have hereto- fore been involved. The narrative of Colonel David Farming, also contained in the vohne, aids in making elear much that has been micertain. But this journal was written years after the events, and corroborative testimony is always desirable with regard to Fanning's statements. One of the letters published, that of Andrew Armstrong to Governor Burke, written 28 August, 1781, taken in connection with Fanning's narrative and some letters contained in a previous vohune, settles a point about which there has been some con- troversy-the date of the Battle of Elizabethtown. The account given in Wheeler's History gives that date as in July, while Moore fixes it about the middle of September, and some very intelligent gentle- men have thought that it was in the last days of September. At that battle Colonel Slingsby was killed. Armstrong in his letter mentions that on 14 August Colonel Slingsby captured Cross Creek. With him were Neil and Ray, two noted Tory leaders of Bladen. 1 day or two later Faming reached Cross Creek, and the Tory parties then separated. Fanning continued down the river, devastated the plantations of the Robesons and carried his prisoners to Wilmington, where he obtained another supply of ammunition. Neil and Ray went west towards Raft Swamp, and Slingsby apparently returned to his post at Elizabethtown. Fanning left Wilmington on 26 August, stopped at Sling-by's camp some hours and then continued his course to the interior. The next day information reached him of Slingsby's disaster, and he sent aid back from his own force; while, because he learnt that Neil and Ray were being pressed by Colonel Wade at Raft Swamp, he hastened there and readily defeated Wade on the first day of September. This would fix Sling-by's death about the last of August. It is to be observed that about a month carlier, on 4 August, Wade had had a previous engagement at Raft Swamp, on the very same ground, in which he defeated Neil and Ray; but now he met with a lamentable disaster. From there Fanning took up his route to Deep River, and a few days later captured Governor Burke at Hillsboro; was intercepted at Cane Creek by General But- ler, and in the battle was so badly wounded that for several weeks he had to remain in hiding in that vicinity. All doubt about the date of the Battle of Elizabethtown seems now to be removed.
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Similarly, some of the movements of General Lillington and the gallant Colonel Kenan in Duplin are made more clear by the corre- spondence contained in this volume. There is another particular inci- dent on which light is shed-the threat of Major Craig to put to death Major Sam Ashe, his young brother, and some other Whigs who had been captured by the marauding Tory bands. It seems that General Caswell had allowed five men taken at New River in Onslow County to be executed at Kinston. Doubtless these men had been guilty of murder and rapine, as was common with both bands of Tories and Whigs, for the bloody work done on both sides in the Cape Fear section at that period has seldom been equalled in enlightened times. Major Craig charged Caswell with murdering these men, and he threw Major Ashe and his comrades into irons, intending to deliver them over to the Tories that they might have ample revenge. But Craig was a soldier, and thought twice about it, and brought the matter to the attention of Governor Burke, who promptly advised him that if he should put his throat in exeention there would be retaliation on some prisoners then in the Governor's power. This deterred Craig from extreme measures.
The roll of Revolutionary pensioners gives additional interest to this volume; while the declarations made by the different applicants, when seeking pensions, contain some account of the movement of the military forces during the war, and throw no little light upon military affairs in the struggle for independence.
In the volume will be found, also, considerable new matter in regard to Tryon's expedition against the Regulators. The receipt for the payment of thirty-six pounds to the executioner of the six Regu- lators hung is a melancholy memorial of that incident. From the list of those who owed quit-rents in the Albemarle seetion at the time when Governor Johnston came over in 1734, it appears that Edge- combe Precinet was then quite well settled.
The Journals of the Council of State, beginning immediately upon the institution of the State Goverment under the Constitution, are also of unusual interest. What the patriots of that trying period had to contend with is well summed up in a message by Governor Burke to the General Assembly after four years had clapsod from the organi- zation of the State Government : "I perceive the country everywhere unprepared for defence: without arms, without discipline, without arrangements; even the habits of civil law and obedience to laws changed into licentious contempt of authority and a disorderly indul-
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gence of violent propensities. Industry is intermitted, agriculture much decayed, and commerce, struggling feebly with almost insuper- able difficulties. The public money is unaccounted for, the taxes uncollected or unproductive, the individuals creditors of the public for the whole produce of their industry for years past, and the Treasury totally unable to make payment." Truly, those were "times that tried men's souls," and the strength of purpose with which the patriots persisted in their struggle for liberty and self-government entitles them to the halo of imperishable glory.
The Constitution of the State of Franklin, and the correspondence relating to the establishment and the passing away of that Common- wealth within the limits of North Carolina will also be found of much interest. The editor regrets to observe that there is an unusual number of typographical errors in this volume; although some of these errors may have originated in the copying of the manuscripts. The intelligent reader will, however, readily correct these errors.
Halter Clark
RALEIGH, N. C., 21 March, 1907.
THE STATE RECORDS
OF
NORTH CAROLINA.
THE JOURNAL OF THE CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1788.
At a Convention begun and held at Hillsborough, on the twenty- fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the thirteenth, in pursuance of a resolution of the last Gen- eral Assembly, for the purposes of deliberating and determining on the proposed plan of Federal Government, and for fixing the unalter- able seat of government of this state.
The returning officers for the several Counties certified that the following persons were duly elected as members of this Convention, viz:
For Anson County-The Hon. Samuel Spencer, Esq. ; Lewis La- nier, Thomas Wade, Frame Wood, and Daniel Gould.
Beaufort-Nathan Keais, John G. Blount, Charles Crawford, James Bonner and Thomas Alderson.
Bertie-William Gray, John Johnston, Andrew Oliver, David Turner and William Johnston Dawson.
Brunswick-Lewis Dupree, and Alexious M. Forster.
Bladen-Thomas Brown and Goodwin Elleston.
Burke-Charles M'Dowall, James Greenlee, Joseph M'Dowall, Robert Miller, and Joseph M'Dowall, Jun.
Craven-Richard D. Spaight, Joseph Leech, Aber Neale, Benja- min Williams, and Richard Nixon.
Cumberland-Alexander M'Callaster, Thomas Armstrong, Wil- liam Barry Grove, James Porterfield, and George Elliott.
Carteret-David Wallace, Willis Styron, Win. Borden, Thomas Borden, Junr., and Wm. Sheppard.
Currituck-John Humphries, Joseph Ferebce, James Phillips, Win. Ferebce.
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Chowan-Michael Payne, Charles Johnston, Stephen Cabarrus, Nathaniel Allen, and Edmund Blount.
Camden-Henry Abbott, Isaac Gregory, Peter Dange, Charles Grandy, and Enoch Sawyer.
Caswell-Robert Dickens, George Roberts, John Womack, John Graves, and James Boswell.
Chatham-Ambrose Ramsey, James Anderson, Joseph Stewart, George Lucas, and Win. Vestall.
Dobbs-Richard Caswell, James Glasgow, Winston Caswell, Ben- jamin Sheppard, and Nathan Lasseter.
Duplin-
Davidson-Thomas Evans, Thomas Hardiman, Robert Weakley, Wm. Donaldson, and Wm. Dobins.
Edgecomb-Elisha Battle, Robert Digges, Etheldred Gray, Wm. Fort, and Bythel Bell.
Franklin-Wm. Lancaster, Thomas Sherrod, Durham Hall, John Norwood, and Henry Hill.
. Guildford-David Caldwell, Wm. Goudy, Daniel Gillespie, John Anderson, and John Hamilton.
Granville-Thomas Person, Joseph Taylor, Thornton Yancey, Ilowel Lewis, Junr., and Elijah Mitchell.
Gates-Win. Baker, Joseph Reddick, James Gregory, and Thomas IIunter.
Greene-
HIalifax-
Ilertford-George Wyns, Thomas Wyuns, Lenmel Burkitt, Win. Little, and Sam Harrell.
Hyde-Abraham Jones, John Eborne, James Jasper, Caleb Fore- man, and Seth Hovey.
Ilawkins-Stokely Donelson, and Thomas King.
Johnston-
Jones-Nathan Bryan, John Hill Bryan, and Edward Whitty.
Lincoln-Robert Alexander, Jas. Johnston, John Sloane, John Moore, and Win. Maclaine.
Moore-John Cox, John Carrel, Cornelius Dond, Thomas Tyson, and Win. Martin.
Martin-Whitanill Hill, Nathan Mayo, William Slade, Thomas Ilumter, and William M'Kinzie.
Mecklinburg -- Joseph Graham and Robert Irwin.
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Montgomery-Win. Loftin, Wm. Kindall, James M'Donald, Thomas Ussory, and Thomas Butler.
Northampton-John Bendford, James Vaughan, Robert Peebles, John Peterson, and James Vinson.
New Hanover-
Onslow-Robert. W. Snead, Daniel Yates, Thomas Johnston, John Spicer, Junr., and Edward Starkey.
Nash-Win. S. Marnes, Howel Ellin, Redman Bunn, Jolm Bonds, and David Pridgen.
Orange-Alexander Mebane, Wm. Mebane, Win. M'Canley, Wm. Sheppard and Johnathan Lindley.
Pasquotank-John Lane, Thomas Reading, Edward Everegain, Enoch Relfe, and Devotion Davis.
Perquimons-ITis Excellency Samnel Johnston, Esq .; Wm. Skin- ner, Joshua Skinner, Thomas Harvey, and Jolin Skinner.
Pitt-Sterling Dupree, Robert Williams, Richard Moye, Arthur Forbes, and David Perkins.
Rowan-
Rutherford-George Moore, George Ledbetter, and Wm. Porter.
Randolph-Win. Bowdon, Zebedee Wood, Edm. Waddill.
Richmond-
Rockingham-James Gallaway, Wm. Bethell, Abraham Phillips, John May, and Charles Gallaway.
Robeson-John Willis, John Cade, Elias Barnes, Neil Brown, and John Regan.
Sorry-Joseph Winston, James Gains, Charles M'Anelly, Abso- lam Bostick, and Matthew Brooks.
Sullivan-Joseph Martin, John Scott, and John Dunkin,
Sampson-David Dodd, Curtis Ivey, Lewis Hohnes, Richard Clin- ton, and Hardy Holmes.
Sumner-James Winchester, William Stokes, Daniel Smith, David Wilson, and Edward Douglass.
Tyrrel-Hezekiah Spruill, Edmund Blount, Thomas Stuart, Jo- siah Collins, and Simeon Spruill.
Washington-Robert Allison, James Stuart, John Tipton, John Blair, and Joseph Tipton.
Warren-Wyot Hawkins, James Payne, John Macon, Thomas Christmas and Henry Montfort.
Wayne-Win. Taylor, and James Handley. -
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Wake-Joel Lane, Thomas Hines, James Hinton, Nathaniel Jones, and Brittain Sanders.
Wilkes-Wm. Lenoir, Richard Allen, John Brown, Joseph Hern- don, and James Fletcher.
Town of Salisbury-John Steele.
Hillsborough-Absalom Tatom.
IIalifax-William R. Davie.
Edenton-James Iredell.
Newbern-John Sitgreaves.
Wilmington-Archibald Maclaine.
Pursuant to which, the following members appeared and took their seats, viz : His Excellency Samuel Johnston, Esq. ; the hon. Samuel Spencer, Esq. ; Messrs.
Lewis Lanier,
Thomas Wade,
Daniel Gould,
Nathan Keais,
John G. Blount,
James Bonner,
Thomas Alderson,
John Joliston,
Andrew Oliver,
Wm. Johnston Dawson,
Alexions M. Forster,
Lewis Dupree,
Thomas Brown,
Goodwin Elleston,
Charles M'Dowall,
James Greenlee,
Joseph M'Dowall,
Robert Miller,
Richard D. Spaight,
Abner Neale,
Benjamin Williams,
Richard Nixon,
Thomas Armstrong,
Wm. B. Grove,
James Potterfield,
Alexander M'Callester,
George Elliott,
Willis Styron,
William Sheppard,
James Phillips, !
John Humphries,
William Ferebee,
Joseph Ferebee,
Michael Payne,
Charles Johnson,
Stephen Cabarrus,
Edmund Blount,
Henry Abbot,
Isaac Gregory,
Peter Dauge,
Charles Grandy,
Enoch Sawyer,
Robert Diekins,
George Roberts,
John Womack,
Ambrose Ramsey,
Joseph Stewart,
Jas. Anderson, George Lucas,
William Vestall,
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Richard Caswell, Nathan Lasseter, Thomas Hardiman,
Winston Caswell,
Thomas Evans,
Robert Weakley,
William Donaldson,
William Dobins,
Robert Digges,
Bythell Bell,
Elisha Battle,
William Fort,
Ethieldred Gray,
William Lancaster,
Thomas Sherrod,
John Norwood,
Sterling Dupree,
Robert Williams,
Richard Moye,
Arthur Forbes,
David Caldwell,
William Goudy,
Daniel Gillespie, John Hamilton, Joseph Taylor,
Thornton Yancey,
Howel Lewis, Junr.,
Elijah Mitchell, Geo. Ledbetter,
Geo. Moore,
Wm. Bowdon,
Wm. Porter, Zebedee Wood,
Edmund Waddell,
James Gallaway,
William Bethel,
Abraham Phillips,
John May,
Charles Gallaway,
Jolm Willis,
Joseph Tipton,
John Cade, Elias Barnes, John Regan, James Gains,
Neil Brown,
Joseph Winston,
Charles M'Annelly,
Absalom Bostiek,
Joseph Martin,
David Dodd, Lewis Holmes,
John Scott, John Dunkin, Curtis Ivey, Richard Clinton,
Hardy Holmes,
William Stokes,
James Winchester, Thomas Stewart, Robert Allison, John Tipton, John Macon,
Josiah Collins,
James Stuart,
John Blair, Thomas Christmas,
Henry Montfort, James Handley, Nathaniel Jones, Wm. Lenoir,
William Taylor, Thomas Hines, Brittain Sanders,
Richard Allen, Joseph Herndon,
John Anderson, Thomas Person,
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John Brown,
James Fletcher,
Jolin Steele, Win. R. Davie,
Absalom Tatom,
Jolm Sitgreaves, William Baker,
Archibald Maclaine,
James Gregory,
Joseph Reddick,
Thomas Wynns,
Thomas Hunter,
William Little, Jolin Eborne,
Abraham Jones,
Caleb Foreman,
James Jasper,
Stokely Donelson,
Seth Hovey,
Nathan Bryan,
Thomas King,
Edward Whitty,
John ITill Bryan,
James Johnson,
Robert Alexander,
John Moore, John Cox,
William Maclaine, John Carrell,
Cornelius Doud,
Thomas Tyson,
William Slade,
Nathan Mayo,
William M'Kenzie,
Joseph Graham,
William Kindall,
Wm. Loftin,
Thomas Ussory,
James M'Donald,
John Benford,
Thomas Butler,
Robert Peebles,
James Vaughan,
William S. Marnes,
James Vinson,
Redman Bun,
Howel Ellin,
David Pridgen, Thomas Johnston,
Daniel Yates,
Alexander Mebane,
John Spicer,
William M'Cauley,
William Mebane,
Johnathan Lindley, Thomas Reading,
John Lane,
Enoch Relfe,
Edward Everegain,
William Skinner,
Devotion Davis,
Thos. Ilarvey,
Joshua Skinner,
Samuel Harrell,
John Skinner, Wyot Hawkin
James Payne.
Mr. Person proposed for President his excellency Samuel John-
Jolın Sloane,
William Martin,
Thomas IIunter ( Martin),
Robert Irwin,
John Bonds,
William Sheppard,
James Iredell,
Lemuel Burkitt,
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ston, Esq., who was unanimously elected, and condueted to the chair accordingly.
On motion, Jolm Hunt was appointed Secretary, and James Tay- lor Assistant Secretary.
At the same time William Murfree, Peter Gooding, Nicholas Mur- free, and James Mulloy were appointed door keepers.
Mr. John Graves, one of the members for Caswell county, appeared and took his seat.
Resolved, That Messrs. Davie, Person, Iredell, J. M'Donald, Bat- tle, Spaighit, and the lion. Samuel Spencer, Esq., be a committee to prepare and draw up rules of decorum, to be observed during the sitting of this convention.
Resolved, That three members from each district be appointed a committee of elections. The members appointed are, Messrs. Spen- cer, Irwin, Caldwell, Person, A. Mebane, Joseph Taylor, M'Dowall, I. Brown, I. Jolmston, Davie, Peebles, E. Gray, Gregory, Iredell, Cabarrus, J. G. Blount, Keais, B. Williams, T. Brown, Maclaine, Forster, Clinton, I. Willis, Grove, I. Stewart, Martin, and Tipton.
Adjourned until to-morrow morning 11 o'clock.
TUESDAY, July 22, 1788.
Met according to adjournment.
Mr. James Boswell, one of the members for Caswell county, Mr. William S. Marnes, one of the members for Nash county, Mr. John M'Callaster, one of the members for Richmond county, Mr. Joseph Leech one of the members for Craven county, Mr. David Looney, and Mr. Jolin Sharpe, two of the members for Sullivan county, Mr. Jo- seph Gaitier, one of the members for Bladen county, Mr. John A. Campbell, Mr. John Pugh Williams, and Mr. John Huske, three of the members for New Ilanover county, Mr. William Marshall, one of the members for Hawkins county, Mr. Charles Robertson, one of the members for Richmond county, Mr. James Gillespie, and Mr. Charles Ward, two of the members for Duplin county, Mr. William Bridges, one of the members for Johnston county, Mr. Win. Randall and Mr. Frederick Ilarget, two of the members for Jones county, Mr. Richard M'Kinne, one of the members for Wayne county, Mr. John Caims, and Mr. Jacob Leonard, two of the members for Brunswick county, Mr. Thomas Carson, one of the members for Rowan county,
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Mr. William Borden, Junr., one of the members for Carteret county, Mr. Richard Singleton and Mr. James Whiteside, two of the mem- bers for Rutherford county, Mr. Caleb Phifer, Mr. Zachias Wilson, and Mr. Joseph Douglass, three of the members for Meeklinburg county, Mr. Thomas Dougan, and Mr. Jeffe Henley, two of the members for Randolph county, Mr. James Kenan, one of the members for Duplin county, Messrs. John Jones, Egbert Haywood, William Wootten, and John Branch, four of the members for Halifax county, and Mr. Henry Hill, one of the members for Franklin county, appeared and took their seats.
Mr. Battle from the committee to whom was referred the business of preparing rules for the goverment of the convention during the sitting thereof, reported sundry rules, which being read and amended, were agreed to, and are as follows :
I. When the president assumes the chair the members shall take their seats.
II. At the opening of the convention, each day, the minutes of the preceding day shall be read, and be in the power of the convention to be corrected, after which any business addressed to the chair may be proceeded on.
III. No member shall be allowed to speak but in his place, and after rising and addressing himself to the president shall not proceed until permitted by the president, or by a member through the presi- dent.
IV. No member speaking shall be interrupted but by a call to order by the president, or by a member through the president.
V. No person shall pass between the president and the person speaking.
VI. No person shall be called upon for any words of heat, but on the day on which they were spoken.
VII. No member to be referred to in debate by name.
VIII. The president shall be heard without interruption, and when he rises the member up shall sit down.
IX. The president himself, or by request, may call to order any member who shall transgress the rules; if a second time, the presi- dent may refer to him by name; the convention may then examine and eensure the member's conduct, he being allowed to extenuate or justify.
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X. When two or more members are up together the president shall determine who rose first.
XI. A motion made and seeonded shall be repeated by the presi- dent; a motion shall be reduced to writing if the president re- quires it; a motion may be withdrawn by the member making it be- fore any decision is had on it.
XII. The name of him who makes, and the name of him who seconds a motion shall be entered on the minutes.
XIII. No member shall depart the service of the House without leave.
XIV. Whenever the House shall be divided on a question two or more tellers shall be appointed by the president to number the mem- bers on each side.
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