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* This preamble which had been offered by Mr. Bryce on the 16th of January and w ithdrawn, was again offered by him on the 25th of that month, and adopted by a vote of 67 to 60. The resolution thus amended read as follows "Profoundly sensible of the great evils arising from the condition of the colored population of this Commonwealth, induced by humanity, as well as policy, to an immediate effort for the removal in the first place, as well of those who are now free as of such as may hereafter become free ; believing that this effort, whilst it is in just accordance with the sentiment of the community on the subject, will absolve all our present means and that a further action for the removal of the slaves should await a more definite development of public opinion: Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that it is inexpedient, for the present to make any legislative enactments for the abolition of slavery." The question was then put upon the adoption of the report of the committee as amended, and determined in the affirmative as follows:

YEAS. Messrs. Grinalds, Randolph, Persinger, Garland, M'Cue, Brooke, Cameron, Faulkner, Good, Wilson of Botetourt, Campbell of Brooke, Bolling, Spurlock, Rives, Jones, Marshall, Wood of Frederick, Snidow, Bryce of Frederick, Bryce of Goochland, Hail of Grayson, Erskine, Poston, Roane, Mullen, Williams, Johnson, Mayo, Gallaher, Berry, Summers, Hooe, Allen, Hays, M'llhaney, Cordell, Caldwell, Smith of Mason, Henry, Vawter, Preston, Chandler, Leigh, Fitzhugh, Parriott, Robertson, Hiner, Gilliland, Zinn, Hart, M'Dowell, Moore, M'Mahon, Cline, Jesse, Kilgore, Bare, Powell, Moncure, M'Coy, M'Culloch, Keller, Crockett, King and Rutherfoord 65.

NAYS. Messrs. Banks, (the speaker,) Wood of Albemarle, Booker, Campbell of Bedford, Pate, Gholson, Shell, Patteson of Buckingham, Daniel, Halyburton Richardson, Patteson of Chesterfield, Pendleton, Broadus, Wilson of Cumberland, Broadnax, Ritchie, Ball, Chilton, Stillman, Helms, Hale of Franklin, Woods, Smith of Frederick, Smith of Gloucester, Spencer, Bruce, Sims, Gravely, Jordan, Shield, Harwood, Dabney, Carter of Richmond, Poindexter,Street,Hudgins,Goode, Knox,Webb, Cabell, Fisher, Harvey, Anderson of Nottoway, Witcher, Swanson, Miller, Dupuy, Land, Shands, Carter of Prince William, Carson, Cobb, Crump, Hargrave, Gillespie, Newton and Brown 58.