31 days, the convention ended on September 18, when the delegates voted to approve the document as the constitution. The final tally was 35 votes for passage and 10 against; 15 members of the convention were absent and did not vote. Draft Constitution The document approved by the convention was modeled after Indiana's 1851 Constitution and included a provision that denied the right to vote to "negro, Chinaman or mulatto" citizens in the state to be, and though female suffrage was discussed, women were also denied the right to vote, as was typical of the era. Provision was made for the ability of the legislature to regulate the immigration into the state of "persons not qualified to become citizens of the United States," thereby allowing legislative restriction of the number of free blacks coming into the state in the event that an outright ban did not achieve majority approval. Another section forbade any "Chinaman" who immigrated into the state after adoption of the constitution from ever owning real estate or working a mining claim, expressly giving the legislature power to enforce this provision. Even as far back as the 1880s such racial measures were regarded as socially retrograde, with historian Hubert Howe Bancroft remarking: These proscriptive clauses, however they may appear in later times, were in accordance with the popular sentiment on the Pacific coast and throughout a large portion of the United States ... However that may be, the founders of the state government in Oregon were fully determined to indulge themselves in their prejudices against color, and the qualities which accompany the black and yellow skinned races. The final draft submitted to the populace contained a total of 18 articles. Over half of the document's content was derived in part from the Indiana constitution. Members Of the 60 delegates in the convention, exactly half were farmers and an additional 19 were lawyers. All members of the convention and what county they represented: Levi Anderson, Washington Jesse Applegate, Umpqua Avery D. Babcock, Polk & Tillamook Reuben P. Boise, Polk Jonathan H. Brattain, Linn Paul Brattain, Lane William W. Bristow, Lane Benjamin Franklin Burch, Polk Andrew J. Campbell, Lane Hector Campbell, Lane Stephen F. Chadwick, Douglas Jesse Cox, Lane Joseph Cox, Marion Reuben Coyle, Linn John T. Crooks, Linn Matthew P. Deady, Douglas Thomas Dryer, Multnomah & Washington Legrand J. C. Duncan, Jackson Luther Elkins, Linn William H. Farrar, Multnomah