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1787.] "To make laws for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States,"— it passed in the affirmative.

Yeas: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 9. Nays: Connecticut, Maryland, 2.

It was moved and seconded to amend the next part of the 2d clause of the report, to read,— "reserving to the states, respectively, the appointment of the officers under the rank of general officers."

It passed in the negative.

Yeas: New Hampshire, South Carolina, 2. Nays: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, 9.

On the question to agree to the following part of the 2d clause of the report, namely,— "reserving to the states, respectively, the appointment of the officers,"— it passed in the affirmative.

On the question to agree to the following part of the 2d clause of the report, namely,— "and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by the United States,"— it passed in the affirmative.

Yeas: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, 7. Nays: Delaware, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, 4.

It was moved and seconded to agree to the 7th section of the 7th article, as reported; which passed unanimously in the affirmative.

It was moved and seconded to insert the following clause after the 7th section of the 7th article:—

"No person, holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, shall, without the consent of the legislature, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."

Passed in the affirmative.

It was moved and seconded to amend the 8th article, to read as follows:—

"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the several states, and of their citizens and inhabitants; and the judges in the several states shall be bound thereby in their decisions, any thing in the constitutions or laws of the several states to the contrary notwithstanding;" which passed in the affirmative.