YEAS-Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina 4 NAYS-New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia 5 It was moved and seconded to strike out the fourteenth clause Which passed in the negative. The question being again taken to strike out the word "make," and to insert the word " declare," in the fourteenth clause, It passed in the affirmative. YEAS-Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia NAY-New Hampshire 8 1 It was moved and seconded to add the words "and "to make peace" to the fourteenth clause― Which passed unanimously in the negative. Separate questions having been taken on the ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and fourteenth clauses of the first section, seventh article, as amended They passed in the affirmative. And the house adjourned till to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, A. M. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1787. The following additional powers, proposed to be vested in the legislature of the United States, having been submitted to the consideration of the convention, It was moved and seconded to refer them to the committee to whom the proceedings of the convention were referred Which passed in the affirmative. The propositions are as follow: To dispose of the unappropriated lands of the United States. To institute temporary governments for new states arising therein. To regulate affairs with the Indians, as well within, as without the limits of the United States. To exercise exclusively legislative authority at the seat of the general government, and over a district around the same, not exceeding square miles; the consent of the legislature of the state, or states comprising such district, being first obtained. To grant charters of incorporation in cases where the publick good may require them, and the authority of a single state may be incompetent. To secure to literary authors their copy rights for a limited time.. To establish a university. To encourage, by proper premiums and provisions, the advancement of useful knowledge and discoveries. To authorize the executive to procure and hold for the use of the United States, landed property for the erection of forts, magazines, and other necessary buildings. To fix and permanently establish the seat of government of the United States, in which they shall possess the exclusive right of soil and jurisdiction. To establish seminaries for the promotion of literature and the arts and sciences. To grant charters of incorporation. To grant patents for useful inventions. To secure to authors exclusive rights for a certain time. To establish publick institutions, rewards, and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades, and manufactures. That funds which shall be appropriated for payment of publick creditors shall not, during the time of such appropriation, be diverted, or applied to any other purpose; and to prepare a clause, or clauses, for restraining the legislature of the United States from establishing a perpetual revenue. To secure the payment of the publick debt. To secure all creditors, under the new constitution, from a violation of the publick faith, when pledged, by the authority of the legislature. To grant letters of marque and reprisal. To regulate stages on the post roads. It was moved by Mr. Rutledge, and seconded, that a committee, to consist of a member from each state, be appointed to consider the necessity and expediency of the debts of the several states being assumed by the United States Which passed in the affirmative. YEAS-Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia 6 NAYS-New Hampshire, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland DIVIDED Pennsylvania 4 1 And a committee was appointed, by ballot, of the honourable Mr. Langdon, Mr. King, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Clymer, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. M'Henry, Mr. Mason, Mr. Williamson, Mr. C. C. Pinckney, and Mr. Baldwin. It was moved and seconded to agree to the following resolution, namely, "Resolved, That this convention will meet punctu"ally at 10 o'clock, every morning (Sundays except"ed) and sit till four o'clock in the afternoon, at which "time the President shall adjourn the convention; and "that no motion for adjournment be allowed"— Which passed in the affirmative. YEAS-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia NAYS-Pennsylvania, Maryland, 9 2 It was moved and seconded to insert the words "and 'support," between the word "raise" and the word "armies," in the fourteenth clause, first section, seventh article- Which passed in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to strike out the words. "build and equip," and to insert the words "provide "and maintain," in the fifteenth clause, first section, seventh article Which passed in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to insert the following as a sixteenth clause, in the first section of the seventh article: "To make rules for the government and regulation "of the land and naval forces" Which passed in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to annex the following proviso to the last clause: "Provided, That in time of peace the army shall not "consist of more than thousand men" Which passed in the negative. a It was moved and seconded to insert the following as clause in the first section of the seventh article: "To make laws for regulating and disciplining the "militia of the several states, reserving to the several "states the appointment of their militia officers." It was moved and seconded to postpone the last clause, in order to take up the following: "To establish a uniformity of exercise and arms "for the militia; and rules for their government, when "called into service under the authority of the United "States; and to establish and regulate a militia in any "state where its legislature shall neglect to do it.” It was moved and seconded to refer the two last motions to a committee Which passed in the affirmative. YEAS-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia NAYS-Connecticut, New Jersey DIVIDED Maryland 8 $2 1 And they were referred to the committee of eleven. And then the house adjourned till Monday next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1787. It was moved and seconded to refer the following propositions to the committee of five Which passed in the affirmative. Each house shall be the judge of its own privileges, and shall have authority to punish, by imprisonment, every person violating the same; or who, in the place |