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More members join the House. Various members present Resolutions to instruct the Committee of Thirty-Three on the slavery question.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled, That, in pursuance of article five of it is recommended to the several States that they shall, through their respective Legislatures, request Congress to call a convention of the States for pro-posing amendments to the Constitution, to the end that the people of the several States may thus be enabled to confer together in the manner provided in the establishment of the Government, and adopt such measures as, in their wisdom, may be proper to promote the common welfare of the States.