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At the close of the meeting of the first Several Council at Red Clay, the term for which the members were elected,, expired. Under the constitution, new elctions would have taken place in the following summer, preparatory to the autumnal Council. [Inasmuch] a, the confusion created by the Georgia Law prevented these elections in the regular district, it was then referred to the people, the creators of the Constitution, of when there was a large [assemblase] present, to point out what course should be taken. It was determined among them that a Convection should meet at Red Clay, for the purpose of devising a mode of keeping up a Provisional Government, on the basis of the Constitution, only disregarding those points with which the Georgia force usurpations rendered it impossible to comply. The Convection was [forthuilt] made up, from the people on the ground; some from each district, and judge John Martin was appointed its President and Elias Bondinott, Secretary. That Convection determined on