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DEBATES

OF THE

Convention to Amend the Constitution.

NINETIETH DAY.

THURSDAY, May 1, 1873.

The Convention met at ten o'clock A. M., Hon. Wm. M. Meredith, President, in the chair.

Prayer by Rev. Jas. W. Curry. The Journal of yesterday was read and approved.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.

Mr. STANTON presented a memorial of citizens of Philadelphia, praying for the recognition of Almighty God and the christian religion in the Constitution,

which was laid on the table.

Mr. G. W. PALMER presented two petitions of citizens of Luzerne county of like import, which were laid on the

table.

Mr. BEEBE presented two petitions of citizens of Venango county of like import, which were ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. STEWART presented a memorial of like import from citizens of Franklin county, which was laid on the table.

Mr. CLARK presented the petition of one hundred and sixty-five citizens of Indiana county, another petition of twenty-three citizens of the same county, and another petition of fifty-one citizens of Westmoreland county, of like import, which were laid on the table.

INVITATION TO BEdford.

Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. President: I have a communication from citizens of Bedford which I ask to have read and laid on the table for the present.

The PRESIDENT. The communication will be read.

The CLERK read as follows: To the honorable the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania:

The undersigned, appointed by a meeting of the citizens of Bedford a committee to invite your honorable body to hold your summer session at Bedford, respectfully represent that, at the aforesaid meeting of the citizens of Bedford, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :

Resolved, That the honorable the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania be

and they are hereby respectfully invited

and that the audience room of the Evanto hold their summer session at Bedford, gelical Lutheran Church be tendered them as a place of meeting, the same having been placed at the disposal of this meeting for that purpose.

The undersigned take pleasure in presenting this invitation to your honorable body, and, in common with the people whom they represent, will be greatly gratified should the Convention see fit to accept it.

E. F. KERR, B. F. MEYERS, W. M. HALL, JOHN CESSNA, W. P. SCHELL, THOS. HAILLEY, F. BENEDICT, JOHN LUTZ, R. F. WILSON.

BEDFORD, PA., April 17, 1873.

Mr. RUSSELL. I move that the cominunication lie on the table for the present. Mr. HOWARD. I move that the invitation be accepted.

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