Additionally, during the course of its business, the convention found it expedient to organize Committees on Vacancies; the Adoption of the Principle of Plurality in Elections; the Loan and Credit of the State; Banking Corporations; General Corporations; and on the Order of Business. Finally, although the legislature had abandoned this device some years previous, the convention met several times as a "committee of the whole"; this allowed it to circumvent some of the cumbersome rules of procedure normally used and to quickly gauge the support of a particular measure. As for petitions, they "could be presented to the Convention only on introduction by a delegate."