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RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION I8 3 Monday MADISON ?lugu.rt 6 and inhabitants, of every age, sex and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing descrip- tion, (except Indians not paying taxes) which number shall, within six years after the first meeting of the Legislature, and within the term of every ten years afterwards, be taken in such manner as the said Legislature shall direct. Sect. 4. No tax or duty shall be laid by the Legislature on articles exported from any State; nor on the migration or importation of such persons as the several States shall think proper to admit; nor shall such migration or importation be prohibited. Sect- 5. No capitation tax shall be laid, unless in propor- tion to the Census hereinbefore directed to be taken. Sect-6. No navigation act shall be passed without the assent of two thirds of the members present in each House. Sect. 7. The United States shall not grant any title of Nobility. VIII [VIII The Acts of the Legislature of the United States made in pursuance of this Constitution, and all treaties made under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the several States, and of their citizens and inhabitants; and the judges in the several States shall be bound thereby in their decisions; anything in the Constitutions or laws of the several States to the contrary notwithstanding. IX [vIIIl Sect ?. The Senate of the United States shall have power to make treaties, and to appoint Ambassadors, and Judges of the supreme Court. Sect. 2. In all disputes and controversies now subsisting, or that may hereafter subsist between two or more States? respecting jurisdiction or territory, the Senate shall possess the following powers. Whenever the Legislature, or the Executive authority, or lawful Agent of any State, in con-