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 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, VI shall be be it enacted and it is hereby enacted by the House of Rcpresentative% and by the Senate of the United States in Congress assembled The Members of each House shall receive a Com- pensation for their Services, to be (paid) ascertained and paid by the State in which they shall be chosen The House of Representa- tives and the Senate when it shall be acting in a legislative Capacity (Each House) shall keep a Journal of its Proceed- ings, and shall from Time to Time publish them, (except such Parts as in their Judg- ment require Secrecy;) and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of each House on any Question shall at the Desire of any Member be entered on the Journal at the desire of any Member Freedom of Speech thority to establish such Qualifications of the Members of each House (of the Legis- lature) with Regard to Property as to the said Legislature shall seem proper and expedient. (A Majority of the Mem- bers of each House shall constitute a Quorum to do Business but a smaller Num- ber than a Majority of them may, in each House, adjourn from Day to Day.) Each House shall have Au- thority to (setfie) determine the Rules and Order of its Proceedings, and (have Power) to punish its own Members for disorderly (and indecent) Behaviour Each House may expel a Member but not a second Time for the same Offence. Neither House shall adjour for more than three Days without the Consent of the other; nor with such Con- sent to any other Place than that at which the two Houses are sitting. But this Regula- tion shall be applied to the Senate only in its Legislative Capacity. The Members of each House shall, in all cases, ex- cept Treason, Felony &

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