person, without a passport, to cross the Maggiore, | “The constitutional spirit which has revolutionized even for an hour. This order is rigidly enforced, Naples, will pervade all Italy; gain Sardinia, which but the watchers and watched are equally infected is ripe for it; nay, perhaps, reach Austria.-Who with a revolutionary spirit. can say or calculate where it may end, or how? of the things briefly mentioned above- Act of cession of the king to the duke of Calabria. "My very dear and well-beloved son, Francis, duke of Calabria. of my ministers, being obliged to abstain from all "In consequence of indisposition, and the advice serious application, I should think myself wanting in my duty, and guilty before God, if, under these circumstances, I did not provide for the government of the kingdom in such a manner that the most important affairs may take their course, and that my indisposition may not be injurious to the public transfer the burthen of government, until the mocause. Having determined, from these motives, to Revolution in Naples. On the night of the 1st of July, some officers and soldiers left the garrison at Nola, and proceeded to Avellino, a short distance from Naples, accompanied by some of the people, shouting, "live the constitution!' 'They were soon joined by the militia of the province. Regiment after regiment went over to the patriots, and, at the end of three days, their strength was irresistible. The king called his council and promised to give them a constitution at the end of eight days-as soon as he could digest its provisions. The patriots were not satisfied with this--they demanded that the "constitution of 1812" should be signed in 24 hours. Some time was spent in negociations. On the 6th, the king abdicated in favor of his son Francis-who, the next day, issued the following procla"By virtue of the act dated yesterday, by whichment when it shall please God to restore me to a state of health necessary to support it, I cannot do his majesty, our august father, has transmitted to better than confide it to you, my very dear and us, with the unlimited clause of the Alter Ego, the well-beloved son, as well because you are my le. exercise of all rights, prerogatives, pre-eminence gitimate successor, as on account of the knowledge and faculties, in the same manner as they can be have acquired of your mind and capacity. exercised by his majesty: mation: "In consequence of the decision of his majesty to give a constitution to the state: "I make you, in consequence, and I constitute you, of my full and entire will, in my kingdom of Wishing to manifest our sentiments to all his heretofore been in the territory of Naples, and in the Two Sicilies, my lieutenant-general, as you have subjects, and to second, at the same time, their una-that beyond the Pharos, and I transmit and grant nimous wish: "We have resolved to decree, and do decree, as follows. "Art. 1. The constitution of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies shall be the same that was adopted for the kingdom of Spain in 1812, and sanctioned by his Catholic majesty in March, 1820, saving the modifications which the national representation, contitutionally convoked, shall consider it suitable to propose, in order to adapt it to the particular circumstances of the states of his majesty. "2. We reserve to ourselves to adopt and make. known all the arrangements which may be necessary to facilitate and accelerate the execution of the present decree. "3. All our ministers and secretaries of state are charged with the execution of the present decree. "Naples, 7th July, 1820. (Signed) "FRANCIS, lieut. gen." On the same evening some of the regiments returned to Naples, and on the 9th, gen. Pepe entered the city at the head of the constitutional army. He was very respectfully received by the prince, and a provisional junta was speedily arranged, the old ministers dismissed and new ones appointed, and the whole affair organized without the commission of an act of violence! The patriots have discarded the red cockade, hitherto used in Naples, and established a tri-colored one, red, black and blue. The prince himself had mounted it as the national cockade. Many of those who were high in office under Murat now fill the most responsible stations-among them is general Telanquire. A new ambassador, M, Pignatelli, secretary of state under Murat], had arrived at Paris from Naples, and a grand cabinet council was immediately called. The whole affair appears to have been so sudden and unexpected, as to make it difficult yet to obtain a history of it. The king has been treated with respect-and, too imbecile to oppose, he has quietly yielded to all the requisitions of the people. A Paris article, alluding to this great event, says; exercise of every right, prerogative, pre-eminence, you with the unlimited clause of the Alter Ego, the and faculty, in the same manner as they would be exercised by myself in person. And in order that order that this paper, signed with my own hand, my will may be universally known and executed, I and sealed with my royal seal, shall be kept and recellor, and that you cause to be transmitted a copy gistered by our secretary of state, minister, chan of it to all the counsellors and secretaries of state, in order that they may make it known to whom it "FERDINAND, concerns. (Signed) New Proclamation of the king, of the 7th July. 1 "We, having given to our well-beloved son all the faculties necessary to provide for the government of our kingdom, by declaring him our lieutenantgeneral with the Alter Ego-he has already arranged the basis of the constitution which we promised, taking for a model that adopted by the kingdom of Spain in 1812, which was sanctioned by his Catholie majesty in the month of March last, saving the modifications which the national representatives, constitutionally convoked, may think it expedient to propose, in order to adapt it to the particular circumstances of our states. We confirm this act of our well-beloved son, and we promise to observe this constitution on our faith and royal word, reserving to ourselves to swear to it in a solemn manner, in the presence of the provisional junta, which, conformably to that established in Spain, shall be appointed by our well-beloved son and lieutenantgeneral, and afterwards in the presence of the general parliament, as soon as it shall be lawfully assembled. "We ratify, also, by these presents, all the subsequent acts which shall be done by our well-beloved son, for the execution of the constitution, and afterwards of the faculties and full powers which we liave confided to him. We declare that all that shall be thus done shall be regarded as if done by tion of the christians in China. Every European ourself and of our own proper motion. (Signed) "Naples, 7th July, 1820. "FERDINAND. Decree for the formation of the Provisional junta. "Ferdinand, &c. &c. priest that is discovered is instantly seized and put to death; Chinese christian priests shares the same fate; christians of the laity, unless they will apostatize, are first dreadfully tortured, and then banished into Tartary. This year 1819, in the prisons of "We, Francis, hereditary prince and lieutenant-one province alone,Suteuen, two hundred christians general of the kingdom, in virtue of the authority which has been given to us by our august father and sovereign, "Having, in our act of the 6th instant, proclaimed for our states, and promised to swear to the constitution in 1812 for Spain; were expecting the orders of their exile. A chinese priest had just been strangled, and two others were also under sentence of death. Throughout the whole empire, there are but ten missionaries, five of whom, at Pekin, have no communication with the inhabitants unless it be secret. The em"Wishing solemnly to fulfil our promise, and to peror has moreover declared that he will no lonconvoke, with the shortest possible delay, the na-ger tolerate either painters or watchmakers, or tional parliament of our kingdom, according to the mathematicians. The bishop of Pekin has in vain forms of the above cited constitution: attempted to introduce himself, under this title, into his diocese. The only way left to the missionaries to penetrate into the country, is by gaining the messengers or couriers that pass from Macao to Pekin; but if discovered, both the missionary and the courier suffer death on the spot. "Wishing that all the acts which should precede the convocation of parliament may emanate from persons honored with the public confidence: "We have resolved to decree, and do decree, as follows: Art. 1. There shall be a provisional junta, composed of fifteen members, and before whom we, and all the princes of our family, shall take the oath to the new constitution of the monarchy-an oath which shall be repeated before the national parliament after its legitimate convocation. "2. Until the installation of the national parliament, we will consult the provisional janta respecting all the affairs of the government, and we will publish all the acts agreed upon with that junta. "3. In order that the choice of those who are to compose that junta may fall upon persons the most eligible by their merit, and the most capable of fulfilling our wishes and those of the nation, we appoint the lieut. gen. D. Giusefpi Parisi, the chevalier D. Melchios Delfico, the lieut. gen. D. Floristano Pepe, the baron D. Davide Winspeare, and the chev. D. Giacinti Martucci, who, assembled in committee, shall present to us a list of twenty other persons, from whom we shall choose ten, who, joined to the above named, shall form the junta charged with the functions above indicated. "Our minister of foreign relations is charged with the execution of the present decree. Naples, July 9, 1820." To the editor of the London Chronicle. Sin-Supposing that it will be of some interest to you to know the gentlemen that have lately made themselves conspicuous in the glorious event at Naples, I take the liberty of noting the following facts: EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria, dated May 3, saysThe Pacha sent an expedition a little while ago to Siwah, under Hassan Bey, of Demanhour, of which Mr. Drouetti, Mr. Ricci, and Mr. Linont, availed themselves, in the hope of being able to visit the site of the temple of Jupiter Aminon. I hear they returned to Cairo without seeing any remarkable remains; and that the Arabs after some resistance, submitted, paid 10,000 Spanish dollars, and are to give a yearly tribute of three hundred camel-loads of dates. M. Frediana, an Italian traveller, writes from Egypt, that he has succeeded, after sixteen days of excessive fatigue across the deserts of Lybia and Marmerique, in reaching the famous temple of Jupiter Ammon, called the Great Temple, which no person appears to have visited since the time of Alexander the Great. M. Frediani had with him an escort of 2000 men, and had to fight his way to this celebrated monument. Alexandria, Feb. 4. We are at length able to announce that the great canal for transportation," from Rahmanie upon the Nile, to Alexandria, is tinished. The Pacha has descended it for its whole length, accompanied by his oldest son, Ibraham Pacha, famous for his victories over the Wechabites. They arrived at Alexandria by way of the canal, in 27 hours from Cairo. TURKEY. We have some further accounts of the proceedGen. Carossa is a man of 55 years of age, of knownings of Ali Pacha. He is supported by the Greeks, bravery; in the year 1798, he was a merchant, and and, in company with the archbishop of Janina, gave partner in the firm, Michele Larginella & Co. an example of personal labor on the fortifications. Gen. Pepe is a very clever mathematician, and a He has taken hostages from the Turks and Alba. very excellent officer of the engineers. He is a nians--though the latter adhere to him. He has profound scholar. caused a proclamation to be read in the Greek Melch. Delfico is about 65 years, a classical scho-churches, inviting the people to take up arms for lar, and a very benevolent man. During the bloody the defence of their religion! He offers every one persecution of the Austrians from 1798 up to 1804, that enlists, a bounty of 100 piasters, and 40 ̊piasbe took shelter in the little republic of San Mari-ters a month of pay. These terms have procured no, whose history, in a large volume in 4to. he for him a great number of recruits. He is said to published with much credit to himself. have an army of 50,000 men, more than 3-5ths of Count Zulo is a man of profound classical know-whom are Greeks. ledge, of known integrity, and perhaps one of the greatest political economists of the age. WEST INDIES. Nearly all of the town of Port au Prince was conReciardi is a profound lawyer, and nobody de-sumed by fire on the night of the 15th ult. nies him the boast of integrity. AN AUSONIAN. CHINA. SOUTH AMERICA. New York, Sept. 6. Captain Mills, of the brig From the Monthly Magazine, for June.-A letter Alexandrew, arrived last evening in 18 days from from a catholic missionary at Macao, dated April 1, Jeremie, states that while getting under weigh, a 1819, affords some details relative to the persecu- ¦ a small Spanish schooner arrived from the Spanish 1 Maine, with intelligence that Porto Bello and La Guira were in peaceable possession of the patriots, who had invited all those who had fled during the former insurrection to return and take possession | of their property.' CHRONICLE. The North Carolina 74, was probably launched at Philadelphia on Fhursday evening. Lieut P. A. J. P. Jones, of the U. S. navy, has been cashiered, in pursuance of the sentence of a court martial. Eclipse. We heard a great deal of an eclipse of the sun which was to have taken place, and be nearly total, on hursday last. We suppose it has been postponed, for we do not know any person who saw it! Philadelphia. The reports of new cases of fever have not yet exceeded four in 24 hours-but the alarm there continues. A large part of the city is temporarily abandoned. The cases are more scattered than they were. Deaths by the fever last Week 11. ed to congress, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Dowse. Kentucky. It is said to be ascertained that gen. Adair is elected governor of this state. Illinois. Daniel P. Cook is re-elected to congress, though seriously opposed by Elias K. Kane. Mobile has suffered exceedingly by a late fire there about thirty stores with the chief of their contents, were reduced to ashes on the night of the 12th ult. Constitution of Maine, Formed in convention, at Portland, 29th October, 1819, and of the independence of the United States the forty fourth, and recommended to the people for their adoption, in town meetings, on the 6th of December. We, the people of Maine, in order to establish justice, insure tranquility, provide for our mutual defence, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe, in affording us an opportunity so favorable to the deLaughable. A person who seems to have been sign; and imploring His aid and direction in its ac in a drunken frolic, was picked up in one of the complishment, do agree to form ourselves into a streets of New-York, and gravely sent to the hos-free and independent state, by the style and title of pital as having the yellow fever, it being reported the state of Maine, and do ordain and establish the that he was from Philadelphia-after being there following constitution for the government of the a day or two, with much anxiety about his case, he same. watched his opportunity and literally eloped, fever and all! Bank men. The trial of certain persons of Baltimore for certain dealings with our banks, which was to have taken place last Monday, in Hartford county, to which the trials had been removed, has been postponed until November next, in consequence of the illness of two of the judges. More of it. The cashier of the bank of the U. States at Fayetteville, S. C. has resigned. The "Observer" of that place mentions as a common report, a deficiency of twenty-six thousand dollars in the accounts of the branch. If these losses fell only on those who made this bank, I mean the speculators and gamblers, I should begin to believe that a just retribution had been wisely ordered-but the innocent have been the chief sufferers, for they had money to lose. ARTICLE I. Declaration of rights. Sec. 1. All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. Sec. 2. All power is inherent in the people; all free governments are founded in their authorty, and instituted for their benefit; they have, therefore, an unalienable and indefeasible right to institute government, and to alter, reform, or totally change the same, when their safety and happiness require it. Sec. 3. All men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and no one shall Counterfeits. We are sick with referring to this be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, lisubject so often, but the public safety is so much berty, or estate, for worshipping God, in the man interested in the matter that we feel it right toner and season most agreeable to the dictates of mention it. New batches of counterfeits appear his own conscience, nor for his religious profes almost daily-among them $2 bills of the Marine sions or sentiments, provided he does not disturb bank of Baltimore, and the alteration of 5's of the the public peace, nor obstruct others in their reliBank of the Valley, in Virginia, into 50's. But gious worship; and all persons demeaning themwhat is truly alarming is-that Murray, Draper selves peaceably, as good members of the state, and Fairman's celebrated plate is so copied as to shall be equally under the protection of the laws, deceive good judges. A bill as of 50 dollars on and no subordination nor preference, of any one the Farmers' and Mechanics' bank of Philadelphia, sect or denomination, to another, shall ever be which is bad, has been received at one of the Bal-established by law, nor shall any religious test be timere banks. Counterfeit 100 notes of the bank of Pennsylvania, are frequently remitted from the westward. required as a qualification for any office or trust under this state; and all religious societies in this state, whether incorporate or unincorporate, shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and contracting with them for their support and maintenance. Indian lands. Five men, seized as intruders on the Cherokee lands, by orders from the war department, have been brought before the district One of them only was able court at Milledgeville. to give bail; the others were committed. They will be tried at the district court in Savannah, in November next. The punishment for this offence by the laws of the United States, is fine and impress; and, in prosecutions for any publication reprisonment. Massachusetts. William Eustis, formerly secretary of war, minister to Holland, &c. has been elect Sec. 4. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of this liberty; no laws shall be passed regulating or restraining the freedom of the specting the official conduct of men in public capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and in all indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion, the law and the fact. Sec. 5. The people shall be secure in their per sons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures; and no warrant to search any place, or seize any person or thing, shall issue, without a special designation of the place to be searched, and the person or thing to be seized, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation.. Sec. 6. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have a right to be heard by himself and his counsel, or either, at his election: to demand the nature and cause of the accusation, and have a copy thereof; monstrance, redress of their wrongs and grievances. Sec. 16. Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms for the common defence; and this right shall never be questioned. Sec. 17. No standing army shall be kept up in time of peace without the consent of the legislature, and the military shall, in all cases, and at all times, be in strict subordination to the civil power. Sec. 18. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner or occupant, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. Sec. 19. Every person for an injury done him in his person, reputation, property, or immunities, shall have remedy by due course of law; and right and justice shall be administered freely and with out sale, completely and without denial, promptly and without delay. Sec. 20. In all civil suits, and in all controversies To be confronted by the witnesses against him; concerning property, the parties shall have a right To have compulsory process for obtaining wit-to a trial by jury, except in cases where it has herenesses in his favor; tofore been otherwise practised: the party claiming the right may be heard by himself and his counsel, or either, at his election. To have a speedy, public and impartial trial; and, except in trials by martial law or impeachment, by a jury of the vicinity. He shall not be compelled to furnish or give evidence against himself, nor be deprived of his life, liberty, property, or privileges, but by judgment of his peers or the law of the land. Sec. 7. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases of impeachment, or in such cases of offences, as are usually cognizable by a justice of the peace, or in cases arising in the army or navy, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public danger. The legislature shall provide by law a suitable and impartial mode of selecting juries, and their usual number and unanimity, in indictments and convictions, shall be held indispensable. Sec. 8. No person, for the same offence, shall be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb. Sec. 9. Sanguinary laws shall not be passed: all penalties and punishments shall be proportioned to the offence: excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel nor unusal punishments inflicted. Sec. 21. Private property shall not be taken for public uses without just compensation; nor unless the public exigencies require it. Sec. 22. No tax or duty shall be imposed without the consent of the people or of their representatives in the legislature. Sec. 23. No title of nobility or hereditary dis tinction, privilege, honor, or emolument, shall ever be granted or confirmed, nor shall any office be created, the appointment to which shall be for a longer time than during good behavior. Sec. 24. The enumeration of certain rights shall not impair nor deny others retained by the people. ARTICLE II. Sec. 1. Every male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, excepting paupers, persons under guardianship, and Indians not taxed, having his residence established in this state for the term of three months next preceding any election, shall be an elector for govern or, senators, and representatives, in the town or Sec. 10. All persons before conviction, shall be plantation where his residence is so established, bailable, except for capital offences, where the and the elections shall be by written ballot. But proof is evident, or the presumption great. And persons in the military, naval or marine service of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not the United States, or this state, shall not be consibe suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion ordered as having obtained such established residence invasion the public safety may require it. by being stationed in any garrison, barrack, or miSec. 11. The legislature shall pass no bill of at-litary place, in any town or plantation: nor shall tainder, ex post facto law, nor law impairing the obli- the residence of a student at any seminary of learngation of contracts, and no attainder shall working entitle him to the right of suffrage in the town corruption of blood, nor forfeiture of estate. or plantation where such seminary is established. Sec. 12. Treason against this state shall consist Sec. 2. Electors shall, in all cases, except treaonly in levying war against it, adhering to its ene-son, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged mies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall from arrest on the days of election, during their be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of attendance at, going to, or returning therefrom. two witnesses to the same overt act, or confession in open court. Sec. 13. The laws shall not be suspended but by the legislature or its authority. Sec. 14. No person shall be subject to corporal punishment under military law, except such as are employed in the army or navy, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger. Sec. 15. The people have a right at all times, in an orderly and peaceable manner, to assemble to consult upon the common good, to give instruction to their representatives, and to request of either department of the government, by petition or re Sec. 3. No elector shall be obliged to do duty in the militia on any day of election, except in time of war or public danger. Sec. 4. The election of governor, senators, and representatives, shall be on the second Monday of September annually forever. ARTICLE III. Distribution of powers. Sec. 1. The powers of this government shall be divided into three distinct departments, the legisldtive, executive, and judicial. Sec. 2. No person or persons, belonging to one of these departments, shall exercise any of the powers properly belonging to either of the others, except in the cases herein expressly directed or to its portion of representation; and the right of permitted." ARTICLE IV.-PART FIRST. representation, so established, shall not be altered until the next general apportionment. Sec. 4. No person shall be a member of the house of representatives unless he shall, at the commencement of the period for which he is elected, have been five years a citizen of the United States-have arrived at the age of twenty-one years have been Legislative power.-House of Representatives. Sec. 1. The legislative power shall be vested in two distinct branches, a house of representatives and a senate, each to have a negative on the other, and both to be styled the Legislature of Maine, and the style of their acts and laws shall be, "Be it ea resident in this state one year, or from the adopnacted by the senate and house of representatives, in legislature assembled.” tion of this constitution; and for the three months next preceding the time of his election, shall have been, and, during the period for which he is elected, shall continue to be a resident in the town or district which he represents. Sec. 2. The house of representatives shall consist of not less than one hunred, nor more than two hundred members, to be elected by the qualified electors for one year from the next day preceding Sec. 5. The meetings for the choice of representhe annual meeting of the legislature. The legis-tatives shall be warned, in due course of law, by the lature which shall first be convened under this con- selectmen of the several towns, seven days at least stitution shall, on or before the fifteenth day of Au- before the election; and the selectmen thereof shall gust, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight preside impartially at such meetings, receive the hundred and twenty-one, and the legislature within votes of all the qualified electors present, sort, count, every subsequent period of at most ten years, and and declare them in open town meeting, and, in the at least five, cause the number of inhabitants of the presence of the town clerk, who shall form a list state to be ascertained, exclusive of foreigners not of the persons voted for, with the number of votes naturalized and Indians not taxed. The number of for each person against his name, shall make a fair representatives shall, at the several periods of mak-record thereof in the presence of the selectmen, ing such enumeration, be fixed and apportioned and in open town meeting; and a fair copy of this among the several counties, as near as may be, ac-list shall be attested by the selectmen and town cording to the number of inhabitants, having re-clerk, and delivered by said selectmen to each regard to the relative increase of population. The presentative, within ten days next after such elec. number of representatives shall, on said first ap-tion. And the towns and plantations organized by portionment, be not less than one hundred nor law, belonging to any class herein provided, shall inore than one hundred and fifty; and, whenever hold their meetings at the same time, in the respecthe number of representatives shall be two hun-tive towns and plantations; and the town and plandred, at the next annual meetings of elections, tation meetings in such towns and plantations, shall which shall thereafter be had, and at every subse-be notified, held and regulated, the votes received, quent period of ten years, the people shall give in sorted, counted and declared in the same manner. their votes, whether the number of representatives And the assessors and clerks of plantations shall shall be increased or diminished, and if a majority have all the powers, and be subject to all the duties of votes are in favor thereof, it shall be the duty which selectmen and town clerks have and are subof the next legislature thereafter to increase or ject to by this constitution. And the selectmen of diminish the number by the rule hereinafter pre-such towns, and the assessors of such plantations, scribed. so classed, shall, within four days next after such Sec. 3. Each town having fifteen hundred inhabi-meeting, meet at some place, to be prescribed and fants, may elect one representative; each town, notified by the selectmen, or assessors of the eldest having three thousand seven hundred, may elect town or plantation, in such class, and the copies of two; each town, having six thousand seven hun-said lists shall be then examined and compared; and dred and fifty, may elect three; each town, having in case any person shall be elected by a majority of ten thousand five hundred, may elect four; each town, having fifteen thousand, may elect five; each town, having twenty thousand two hundred and fifty, may elect six; each town, having twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty inhabitants, may elect seven; but no town shall ever be entitled to more than seven representatives, and towns and plantations duly organized, not having fifteen hun. red inhabitants, shall be classed, as conveniently as may be, into districts, containing that number, and so as not to divide towns; and each such district may elect one representative; and when, on this apportionment, the number of representatives shall be two hundred, a different apportionment shall take place upon the above principle; and, in case the fifteen hundred shall be too large, or too small, to apportion all the representatives to any county, it shall be so increased or diminished as to give the number of representatives according to the above rule and proportion; and whenever any town or towns, plantation or plantations, not entitled to elect a representative, shall determine against a classification with any other town or plantation, the legislature may, at each apportionment of representatives, on the application of such town or plantation, authorize it to elect a representative for such portion of time, and such periods, as shall be equal all the votes, the selectmen or assessors shall deliver the certified copies of such lists to the person so elected, within ten days next after such election; and the clerks of towns and plantations, respective. ly, shall seal up copies of all such lists, and cause them to be delivered into the secretary's office twenty days at least before the first Wednesday in January, annually; but in case no person shall have a majority of votes, the selectmen and assessors shall, as soon as may be, notify another meeting, and the same proceedings shall be had at every future meeting, until an election shall have been ef fected: Provided, That the legislature may, by law, prescribe a different mode of returning, examining and ascertaining the election of the representatives in such classes. Sec. 6. Whenever the seat of a member shall be vacated by death, resignation, or otherwise, the vacancy may be filled by a new election. Sec. 7. The house of representatives shall choose ARTICLE IV.--PART SECOND. Sec. 1. The senate shall consist of not less than twenty, nor more than thirty one members; elected |