states, without the consent of the legislature of such state, as well as of the general legislature."
Separate questions being taken on the different clauses of the proposition, they passed in the affirmative.
Yeas: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 6. Nays: New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, 5.
The house adjourned.
It was moved and seconded to postpone the substitute for the 17th article, agreed to yesterday, in order to take up the 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.
Yeas: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, 5. Nays: New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, 6.
It was moved and seconded to commit the substitute for the 17th article, agreed to yesterday.
And on the question being taken, it passed in the negative.
Yeas: New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, 3. Nays: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 8.
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 17th article; which passed in the affirmative.
Yeas: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 7. Nays: New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 4.
It was moved and seconded to insert the words "hereafter formed or," after the words "shall be," in the substitute for the 17th article; which passed in the affirmative.
Yeas: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 9. Nays: Delaware, Maryland, 2.
It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the substitute to the 17th article, as amended, in order to take up the following proposition from Maryland:—
"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,
