The committee of this House, to whom was recommitted a resolution proposing an article of amendment to the Constitution of this commonwealth, in relation to the election of the House of Representatives, together with said proposed article of amendment, with instructions to report an amendment, restricting the whole number of members of the House of Representatives to about three hundred and fifty, and securing at the same time, as far as may be practicable, consistently with that object, the rights of the several towns to choose their representatives in manner now provided by the Constitution, ask leave to submit the following report ... .