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 6I 4 lECOl%DS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Friday MADISON September Congs consequently might evade the disqualification in this instance.--He was neither seconded nor opposed; nor did any thing further pass on the subject. Art. . Sect. 8." The Congress "may by joint ballot appointed a Treasurer" Mr Rutlidge moved to strike out this power, and let the Treasurer be appointed in the same manner with other officers. Mr. Gorham & Mr. King said that the motion, if agreed, to would have a mischievous tendency. The people are accus- tomed & attached to that mode of appointing Treasurers, and the innovation will multiply objections to the System. Mr. Govt. Morris remarked that if the Treasurer be not appointed by the Legislature, he will be more narrowly watched, and more readily impeached- Mr.Sherman- As the two Houses appropriate money, it is best for them to appoint the officer who is to keep it; and to appoint him as they make the appropriation, not by joint, but several votes: Genl Pinkney. The Treasurer is appointed by joint ballot in South Carolina. The consequence is that bad ap- pointments are made, and the Legislature will not listen to the faults of their own officer. On the motion to strike out N. H--ay. Mas. no. Ct. ay. N.J. ay. Pa. no. Del--ay-- Md ay. Va. no. N--C. ay. S. C. ay. Geo--ay. [Ayes- 8; noes -- 3-] ("but all such duties imposts & excises, shall be uniform throughout the U-- S--" was unanimously annexed to the power of taxation.) Art I. sect. 8: To define & punish piracies and felonies on the high seas, and "punish" offences against the law of nations. 8 Mr. Govr. Morris moved to strike out "punish" before the words "offences agst. the law of nations." so as to let these be definable as well as punishable, by virtue of the preceding member of the sentence. s Detail of Ayes and Noes, Vote 532, records the adoption of a motion to recon- sider this clause.

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