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At the close of the meeting of the first General Council at Red Clay, the term for which the members were elected,, expired. Under the constitution, new elections would have taken place strikeout in the following summer, preparatory to the autumnal Council. Inasmuch as 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 strikeout Constitution, of when there was a large assemblage present, to point out what course should be taken. It was determined among them that strikeout a Convention 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 Convention was forthwith made up, from the people on the ground; some from each district, and Judge John Martin was appointed its President & Elias Bondinott, Secretary. That Convention determined on