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 I2 RECORD9 OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Thursday MADISON July 26 nor to excite any hostile passions agst. the system. He was content to withdraw the motion for the present. Mr. Butler was for fixing (by the Constitution) the place, & a central one, (for the seat of the Natl Govt) The (proceedings since monday last were referred unani- mously to the) : Come. of detail, (and the Convention then unamously) a Adjourned till Monday. Augst. 6. that (the) Come. of detail (might) have time to prepare & report the Constitution: 4 (The whole proceedings as referred are as follow: (here copy them from the Journal p. zo7. With the above resolutions were referred the propositions offered by Mr. C. Pinckne� on the z9th of May. & by Mr. Patterson on the I5th. of June.) xa XMadlson originally noted that "The Resolution eonstltutlng the executive as amended, was referred". Later he struck that out and substituted from Journal the wording of the text.  Taken from Journal. at The appointment of a committee, its members and general purpose, and the adjournment of the Convention until August 6, were reported in the local news- papers. See further Appendix A, LXX-LXXVII,

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