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 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER iz, I78 7. JOURNAL Wednesday September I2. I787. The honorable Mr Johnson from the Committee of revision informed the House that the Committee were prepared to report the Constitution as revised and arranged. The report was then delivered in at the Secretary's table -- and having been once read throughout. Ordered that the Members be furnished with printed copies thereof. t The draught of a letter to Congress being at the same time reported- was read once throughout, and afterwards agreed to by paragraphs. It was moved and seconded to reconsider the I3th sect. of the 6th article which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to strike out the words three fourths and to insert the words "two thirds" in the 13 sect of the 6th article which passed in the affirmative [Ayes--6; noes--4; divided -- .! It was moved 'and seconded to appoint a Committee to pre- pare a Bill of rights which passed in the negative [Ayes --o; noes -- IO.]  No copy found among the secretary's papers. s Vote 51 I, Detail of Ayes and Noes. From this point on the records of the Journal are more unsathfactory than ever, and it is impossible to reach any satisfactory con- clusion with regard to the various questions and votes. At the request of John Quincy Adams, when he was preparing the Journal for publication, Madison first sent him extracts from hls notes of the last two days, and later, as far as he was able, filled in the blanks of a list of ayes and noes submitted to him by Adams. See Appendix A, CCCXXIV CCCXXVIII, CCCXXX, CCCXXXVII. 58

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