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 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION II COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, I Resolved $. Resolved Resolved be proportioned according to direct Taxation: And in order to ascertain the Alteration in the direct Taxation, which may be required from Time to Time, by the Changes in the relative Circumstances of the States-- Resolved that a Census be taken, within six years from the first Meeting of the Legislature of the United States, and once within the Term of every ten Years afterwards, of all the Inhabitants of the United States in the Manner and according to the Ratio recommended by Congress in their Resolution of April 18th. 1783 wand that the Legislature of the United States shall proportion the direct Taxation accordingly. Resolved that all Bills for raising or Appropriat- ing Money, and for fixing the Salaries of the Officers of the Government of the United States shall originate in the first Branch of the Legisla- ture of the United States, and shall not be altered or amended by the second Branch; and that no money shall be drawn from the public Treasury but in Pursuance of Appropriations to be origin- ated by the first Branch that from the first Meeting of the Legislature of the United States until a Census shall be taken, all Monies for supplying the public Treasury by direct Taxation shall be raised from the several States according to the Number of their Rep- resentatives respectively in thff first Branch That in the second Branch of the Legislature of the United States each State shall have an equal Vote. That the Legislature of the United States ought to possess the legislative Rights vested in Con- gress by the Confederation; and moreover to legislate in all Cases for the general Interests of the Union, and also in those Cases to which the States are separately incompetent, or in which the Harmony of the United States may be inter-

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