South Carolina, 6. Nays: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Georgia, 4. Divided: Pennsylvania, 1.
It was moved and seconded to amend the 1st clause of the 13th section of the 6th article, as follows.—
"No bill or resolve of the Senate and House of Representatives shall become a law, or have force, until it shall have been presented to the President of the United States for his revision;"
which passed in the negative.
Yeas: Massachusetts, Delaware, North Carolina, 3. Nays: New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, 8.
It was moved and seconded to add, at the close of the 13th section of the 6th article, the following clause:—
"No money shall be drawn from the treasury of the United States but in consequence of appropriations by law."
The motion was withdrawn.
It was moved and seconded to adjourn; which passed in the negative.
Yeas: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 3. Nays: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 7.
It was moved and seconded to strike out the word "seven," and to insert the words "ten, (Sundays excepted,)" in the 13th section of the 6th article; which passed in the affirmative.
Yeas: Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 9. Nays: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 2.
On the question to agree to the 13th section of the 6th article, as amended, it passed in the affirmative.
And then the house adjourned till to-morrow, at 11 o'clock.
It was moved and seconded to agree to the following, as the 14th section of the 6th article:—
"Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary, (except on a question of adjournment, and in the cases hereinafter mentioned,) shall be presented to the President for his revision, and, before the same shall have force, shall be approved by him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill;"
which passed in the affirmative.
It was moved and seconded to insert the following proviso after the 1st clause of the 1st section of the 7th article
