uch discussion, and the consideration of many proposed
amendments, the article with seven sections, intended as an
amendment to the Constitution, was adopted by sections (not
under the rules, being voted on as a whole), and by a vote of
the Conference (not taken by States), was directed to be
submitted to Congress, with the request that it should be
recommended to the States for ratification, which was
accordingly done by the President of the Conference.

The undersigned regret that the Journal showing the
proceedings and votes in the Conference has not yet been
published or furnished them, and that consequently they are
not able to present it with this report. As soon as received
it will be communicated to your Excellency.

In the absence of that record it is deemed appropriate to
state that on the final adoption of the first section, two of
the States, Indiana and Missouri, did not vote, and New York
was divided, and that the votes by States was, ayes 9, nays
8--Virginia, by a majority of her Commissioners, voting in
the negative.

The other sections were adopted by ranging majorities (not
precisely recollected), and on the fifth and seventh sections
the vote of Virginia was in the negative. The plan, when
submitted to Congress, failed to receive its recommendation,
and as that body, having adjourned, can take no further
cognizance of it, the undersigned feel the contingency has
arrived on which they are required to report, as they herein
do, the result of their action.

Respectfully,

JOHN TYLER,
G.W. SUMMERS,
W.C. RIVES,
JAS. A. SEDDON.

The above report having been read and ordered to be printed, Mr.
SUMMERS stated that the reason it was not signed by Judge
BROCKENBROUGH, the other Virginia Commissioner, was because that
gentleman was not in Richmond. Mr. SUMMERS presented a communication
in which Judge BROCKENBROUGH stated his views at length on the
propositions adopted by the Convention, and it was printed, by vote of
the Legislature, in connection with the report.

After reviewing the different sections of the propositions adopted by
the Peace Conference, Judge BROCKENBROUGH, in his letter, states that
the said propositions, _as an entirety_, would have received his vote,
and therefore the vote of Virginia, in the Peace Conference, if it had
been submitted to a vote in that for