FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1787. It was moved and seconded to strike the word "not," out of the first clause of the seventh resolution reported from the committee. On the question to strike out, It passed in the negative. YEAS Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Dela ware 4 NAYS-Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia DIVIDED Maryland 6 1 It was moved and seconded to agree to the first clause of the seventh resolution, as reported from the committee, namely, "Resolved, That the right of suffrage in the first "branch of the legislature of the United States ought "not to be according to the rule established in the "articles of confederation, but according to some equi"table ratio of representation. On the question to agree, YEAS-Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia 6 NAYS-Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Dela ware DIVIDED-Maryland 4 1 It was moved and seconded to postpone the further consideration of the seventh, in order to take up the eighth resolution Which passed in the affirmative. YEAS-Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn sylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia NAYS-Massachusetts, Delaware 9 2 It was moved and seconded to amend the eighth resolution reported from the committee, so as to read as follows, namely, "Resolved, That in the second branch of the legis"lature of the United States, each state shall have an "equal vote." Before the determination of the house was taken on the last motion, the house adjourned till to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, A. M. SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1787. The following resolution was moved and seconded, namely, "Resolved, That the President be requested to "write to the supreme executive of the state of New Hampshire, and inform him that the business before "the convention is of such a nature as to require the "immediate attendance of the gentlemen appointed by "that state to this convention." On the question to agree to this resolution, YEAS-New York, New Jersey 2 NAYS-Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina DIVIDED-Maryland 5 1 It was then moved and seconded to take up the resolution submitted to the consideration of the house yesterday, namely, Resolved, That in the second branch of the legis "lature of the United States, each state shall have an "equal vote." After some time passed in debate, the house voted unanimously to adjourn till Monday next, at 11 A. M. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1787. It was moved and seconded to agree to the following resolution, namely, "Resolved, That in the second branch of the legis"lature of the United States, each state shall have an "equal vote" Which passed in the negative. YEAS-Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland 5 NAYS Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina DIVIDED Georgia 5 1 It was moved and seconded to appoint a committee, to whom the eighth resolution, and so much of the seventh resolution, reported from the committee of the whole house, as has not been decided upon, should be referred. On the question to agree to this motion, It passed in the affirmative. YEAS-Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia NAYS-New Jersey, Delaware 9 2 It was moved and seconded that the committee con sist of a member from each state. It passed in the affirmative. YEAS-Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia NAY-Pennsylvania 10 1 And a committee by ballot was appointed, of Mr. Gerry, Mr. Ellsworth, Mr. Yates, Mr. Patterson, Mr. Franklin, Mr. Bedford, Mr. L. Martin, Mr. Mason, Mr. Davie, Mr. Rutledge, and Mr. Baldwin. And then the house adjourned till Thursday next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1787. The honourable Mr. Gerry reported from the committee, to whom were referred the eighth resolution, and such part of the seventh resolution as had not already been decided on by the house, that the committee had directed him to submit the following report to the consideration of the house; and the same being delivered in at the Secretary's table, was read once throughout, and then by paragraphs, and is as follows, namely, THE Committee, to whom were referred the eighth resolution reported from the committee of the whole house, and so much of the seventh as hath not been decided on, submit the following report: That the subsequent propositions be recommended to the convention, on condition that both shall be generally adopted. "1. That in the first branch of the legislature, each of the states now in the union be allowed one "member for every forty thousand inhabitants of the description reported in the seventh resolution of the "committee of the whole house-that each state not "containing that number shall be allowed one member "that all bills for raising or appropriating money, "and for fixing the salaries of the officers of the go"vernment of the United States, shall originate in the "first branch of the legislature, and shall not be al"tered, or amended, by the second branch-and, "that no money shall be drawn from the publick treasury, but in pursuance of appropriations to be 66 originated by the first branch. 66 "2. That in the second branch of the legislature, "each state shall have an equal vote." It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the first proposition contained in the report, in order to take up the second. On the question to postpone, It passed in the negative. YEAS-New York, South Carolina 2 NAYS-Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia 8 It was then moved by Mr. Rutledge, and seconded, to postpone the first clause of the report, in order to take up the following, namely, "That the suffrages of the several states be regu"lated and proportioned according to the sums to be paid towards the general revenue by the inhabitants "of each state, respectively-that an apportionment "of suffrages, according to the ratio aforesaid, shall "be made and regulated at the end of years "from the first meeting of the legislature of the United "States, and so from time to time at the end of every years thereafter; but that for the pre |