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 THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 787. JOURNAL Thursday August 3 �. 787. [To commit the substitute offered to the x? article Ayes- -- 3; noes -- 8.]  It was moved and seconded to postpone the substitute for the x7 article, agreed to yesterday, in order to take up the following amendment. The Legislature shall have power to admit other States into the Union, and new States to be formed by the division or junction of States now in the Union, with the consent of the Legislature of such states. which passed in the negative. [Ayes-- 5; noes -- 6.]  It was moved and seconded to strike out the words "the limits" and to insert the words "the jurisdiction" in the substitute offered to the 7 article. which passed in the affirmative [Ayeswy; noesw4.] It was moved and seconded to insert the words "hereafter formed or" after the words "shall be" in the substitute for the 17 article which passed in the affirmative. [Ayes  9; noes  2.] It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the substitute to the 7 article as amended in order to take up the following "The Legislature of the United States shall have power "to erect new States within as well as without the territory "claimed by the several States or either of them and admit "the same into the Union: Provided that nothing in this  Vote 403, Detail of Ayes and Noes.  Vote 4o4, Detail of Ayes and Noes, which notes that the proposal was in order 'to take up Mr 8herrnan's motion". 457

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