SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 787 � JOURNAL Saturday August 25. x787. It was moved and seconded to postpone the first clause of the first section 7 article, in order to take up the following amendment "all debts contracted and engagements entered into, by or "under the authority of Congress shall be as valid against the "United States under this constitution as under the confed- "eration." which passed in the affirmative On the question to agree to the amendment it passed in the affirmative [Ayes -- xo; noes m L] t It was moved and seconded to add the following clause to the first clause of the xst sect. 7 article "for the payment of said debts and for the derraying the "expences that shall be incurred for the common defence and "general welfare" which passed in the negative. [Ayes -- I; noes g Io.] It was moved and seconded to amend the report of the Com- mittee of eleven, entered on the Journal of the z4th instant as follows to strike out the words "the year eighteen hundred" and to insert the words "the year eighteen hundred and eight" which passed in the affirmative [Ayes- 7; noes m4.] It was moved and seconded to amend the first clause of the report to read The importation of Slaves into such of the States as shall z Vote ?6?, Detail of Ayes and Noes, which notes that it was "Mr. Randolph's amendment". 4o8
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