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, and proportion of contribution in 1783, 82. Desires to confine Virginia within the Alleghany, 93. Appoints delegates to the convention at Annapolis, 115. Refuses to send delegates to the Federal Convention, 118. Letter from, to the Convention, 125. Proportion of representation in the House of Representatives before a census, 129, 288, 290, 293, 316, 559. Proportion of representation in the Senate before a census, 129. Proportion of electors of President, 287, 288. Opinions there on Federal Constitution, 567.

RICE, 89.

ROADS, establishment of post and military, by Congress, 130, 434, 560. Regulation of stages on them, 440, 441. Plans in regard to, 446.

RUSH, JACOB, 11.

RUSSIA renews her mediation for general peace, 1.

RUTLEDGE, JOHN, represents South Carolina in Congress, 1. Voted for as President, 1. Remarks on Court of Appeals, under the Confederation, 2. Proposes to give to military commanders authority to retaliate for violations of laws of war, 3. Urges more precision in the orders of Congress to the executive departments, 4. Views on a valuation of lands as basis of taxation, 5, 40, 45. Proposes conditional exchange of Cornwallis for Colonel H. Laurens, 7. Urges adjustment of a plan of revenue, 13. Opposes salvage for recaptures on land, 18. Proposes to exempt American commissioners from control of France, 18. Wishes to adhere to rule of proportioning taxation, as fixed by the Confederation, 21, 25. Appointed to confer with superintendent of finance on arrears of army, 24. Proposes that the negotiations in regard to confiscations and British debts should be made public, 26. Objects to a general land tax by Congress, 34, 37. Views on general system of revenue, 40. Proposes that states shall he credited with duties they collect, 41. Remarks on export of tobacco by authority of Congress, 48. Proposes valuation of land be made by Commissioners appointed by states, 48. Proposes military force to retake goods seized while under passport, 50. Proposes to appropriate impost to pay army first, 51, 52. Proposes a tariff of specific duties, 51. Dissatisfied with report of superintendent of finance, 67. Remarks on conduct of commissioners at Paris, 68, 75. Opposes including expenses received by states in provision for public debt, 78. Remarks on proportion of freemen to slaves in fixing contributions of states, 79. Advocates suspension of hostilities, 79. Remarks on completing cessions of public lands, 87. Delegate to Federal Convention, from South Carolina, 106. Attends the Federal Convention, 123. Seconds proposal of Gen. Washington as President, 123. Opposes an adjournment of the Convention without adopting some plan, 318. Prefers a single executive, 140, 149. Thinks power of war and peace should not be given to the President, 140. Proposes an election of the President by the Senate, 144. Opposed to the President appointing the judges, 155. Prefers the election of the President by the national legislature, 338, 512. Wishes a property qualification for the executive, judiciary, and legislature, 403. Proposes that the ballot in Congress for the President be joint, 472. Proposes a representation of states in the Senate according to their importance, 174. Proposes that senators shall have no pay, 187. Proposes an election of the representatives by the state legislatures, 160, 223. Wishes representation in the House of Representatives to be proportioned to contribution, 178, 181, 279. In favor of biennial elections of representatives, 183. Desires ineligibility of representatives to office, 233. Wishes representation to be according to property, as well as numbers, 279, 297. Proposes a periodical census, 279. Opposes too large a number in the House of Representatives, 293. Wishes it to be provided distinctly that Congress shall meet annually, 385. Desires that the term of necessary residence of a representative should be increased, 390, 391. Views on the term of citizenship for members of Congress, 400, 412. Objects to Congress altering the state regulations relative to the election of members of Congress, 401. Objects to Congress fixing the qualifications of its own members, 404. Wishes a specific enumeration of the powers of Congress, 139, 317. Objects to the exclusive power of the representatives over money bills, 419. His views relative to the provisions about slaves, 457. Approves of the prohibition on Congress to pass attainders and ex post facto laws, 463. Opposes a negative in Congress on the state laws, 468. Objects to a removal of the judges on application of the legislature, 481. Objects to any suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, 484. Proposes to prohibit the states from passing attainders or retrospective laws, 485. Opposes a provision requiring two thirds to pass a navigation act, 491. Opposes any national judiciary that is not merely appellate, 158. Objects to the judges forming a part of a council of revision, 349. Proposes the assumption of the state debts, 440, 441. Thinks controversies between the states should be left to the judiciary, 471. Objects to a division of the territory of a state without its consent, 494. Thinks two thirds of the Senate should be required to make a treaty, 527. Requires that a motion be made that amendments of the Constitution shall not affect the stipulation in regard to slaves, 532. Prefers to submit the Constitution to the Congress of the Confederation, but not to require their assent to it, 534. Signs the Constitution, 565.

ST. CLAIR, 93.

SALARY. See. Proposal to reduce that of ministers plenipotentiary, 5. Of secretary of foreign affairs inadequate, 9, 89, 90. Reduction of, 99.

SALT, tax on, proposed, 39, 40, 61, 67.

SALT FISH, drawback on, 84.

SCHUYLER, GENERAL, spoken of as secretary of foreign affairs, 16, 91. Proposes Convention to revise Confederation, 117.

SCIENCE, power of Congress to promote, 440, 511, 561.

SCOTLAND, effect of union with England, 179, 269.

SEA, felony at, under jurisdiction of judiciary, 128. Felony at, to be legislated upon by Congress, 130, 378, 436, 543, 561.

SEAT OF CONGRESS, discussions in regard to, 112, 130, 373, 374, 409, 511, 561.

SECRECY, of the proceedings of the Convention, 125, 126, 368. Of the proceedings of Congress, 22, 130, 216, 378, 408, 561. Of the proceedings relative to treaties, 523.

SECRETARY OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, William Jackson elected, 124.

SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Mr. Livingston, intends to resign, 9. Nominations for, 91.

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SECURITY of liberty to be provided for by the Constitution, 127, 558.

SEIZURE, of goods under passports, 27, 50, 54. Of Spanish property, 99, 100.

SEMINARIES, power of Congress in regard to, 440.

SENATE, to be chosen by the first branch of the legislature, 127, 129, 131, 137. To be chosen by the state legislatures, 137, 163, 166, 189, 375, 377, 559. To be chosen by the people, 138, 167, 205. To be appointed by the President, 167, 272. To be chosen from districts throughout the Union, 138, 169, 205. To be apportioned by the