indebted to, or have unsettled accounts with, the United States, from being members of either branch of the national legislature."
It was moved and seconded to strike out the word "landed." It passed in the affirmative.
Yeas: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 10. Nay: Maryland, 1.
On the question to agree to the clause respecting the qualification as amended, it passed in the affirmative.
Yeas: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 8. Nays: Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, 3.
It was moved and seconded to add the words "and pensioners of the government of the United States," to the clause of disqualification; which passed in the negative.
Yeas: Massachusetts, Maryland, Georgia, 3. Nays: New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, South Carolina, 7. Divided: North Carolina, 1.
It was moved and seconded to strike out the following words, namely, "or have unsettled accounts with;" which passed in the affirmative.
Yeas: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 9. Nays: New Jersey, Georgia, 2.
On the question to agree to the clause of disqualification as amended, it passed in the negative.
Yeas: North Carolina, Georgia, 2. Nays: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, 9.
It was moved and seconded to agree to the following resolution, namely:—
"Resolved, That it be an instruction to the committee to whom were referred the proceedings of the Convention for the establishment of a national government, to receive a clause or clauses for preventing the seat of the national government being in the same city or town with the seat of the government of any state, longer than until the necessary public buildings can be erected."
It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the last resolution.
It was moved and seconded to refer such proceedings of the Convention, as have been agreed on since Monday last, to the committee of detail; which passed unanimously in the affirmative. And then the house, by unanimous vote, adjourned, till Monday, August 6.
