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 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST z2, I787. JOURNAL Wednesday August 2:nd I787. The motion, made yesterday, to insert the word "free" be- fore the word "persons" in the 4 section of the 7 article, being withdrawn, It was moved and seconded to commit the two remaining clauses of the 4 section, and the 5 section of the 7 article which passed in the affirmative. [Ayes- 7; noes- 3.] It was moved and seconded to com't the 6th section of the 7 article , which passed in the affirmative [Ayes -- 9; noes -- and a Committee (of a Member from each State) was appointed by ballot of the honorable Mr Langdon, Mr King, Mr Johnson, Mr Livingston, Mr Clymer, Mr Dickinson, Mr L. Martin, Mr Madison, Mr Williamson, Mr C. C. Pinckney, & Mr Bald- win.- to whom the z remaining clauses of the 4th & ye 6 sections were referred. The honorable Mr Rutledge, from the Committee to whom sundry propositions were referred on the I8 and zoth instant, informed the House that the Committee were prepared to report  he then read the report in his place  and the same, being delivered in at the Secretary's table, was again read throughout, and is as follows The Committee report that in their opinion the following additions should be made to the report now before the Con- vention vizt at the end of the st clause of tle st section of the 7 article add "for payment of the debts and necessary expences of the "United States -- provided that no law for raising any branch 366

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