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 2 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Saturday JOURNAL lugst the United-States in which they shall possess the exclusive right of soil and jurisdiction To establish seminaries for the promotion of literature and the arts and sciences To grant charters of incorporation To grant patents for useful inventions To secure to authors exclusive rights for a certain time To establish public institutions, rewards and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades, and manu- factures. That Funds which shall be appropriated for payment of pub- lic Creditors shall not during the time of such appropria- tion be diverted or applied to any other purpose- and to prepare a clause or clauses for restraining the Legislature of the United States from establishing a perpetual revenue To secure the payment of the public debt. To secure all Creditors, under the new Constltution from a violation of the public faith. when pledged b 7 the author- ity of the Legislature To grant letters of marque and reprisal To regulate Stages on the post-roads. I.t was moved and seconded That a Committee to consist of a Member from each State be appointed to consider the necessity and expediency of the debts of the several States being assumed by the United States which passed in the affirmative [Ayes--6; noes -- 4; divided -- x.] t and a Committee was appointed by ballot of the honorable Mr Lungdon, Mr King, Mr Sherman, Mr Livingston Mr Clymer, Mr Dickinson, Mr Mc Henry, Mr Mason, Mr Wil- liamson Mr C. C. Pinckne7, and Mr Baldwin. It was moved and seconded to agree to the following resolu- tion, namely Resolved That this Convention will meet punctually at Io o'clock every morning (Sundays excepted) and sit till four o'clock in the afternoon, at which time the President shall  Vote 3x6, Detail of Ayes and Noes, which notes that it was "Mr. Rutledge's proposition ".

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