Excerpt from Report of Joint Select Committee on Changes in the Constitution, Made to the General Assembly, 1882 The undersigned, to whom was referred several petitions praying for the call of a convention to form a new constitution for the state, have considered the subject committed to them, and thereon, accord ing to their instructions, report that they have held five public meetings, at each of which they met and heard representatives of the petitioners. At the outset it is but justice to these representatives to say that they were persons of respectability, who presented their case, with but few exceptions, with entire candor, marked ability and per feet fairness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.