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I6 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Monday MADISON July ?6 "from time to time to apportion the number of Reps.; and in "case any of the States shall hereafter be divided, or en- "larged by, addition of territow, or any two or more States "united, or any new States created within the limits of the "U.S. the Legislature of the U.S. shall possess authority "to regulate the number of Reps, in any of the foregoing "cases, upon the principle of their number of inhabitants, "according to the provisions hereafter mentioned, namely-- "provided always that representation ought to be proportioned "according to direct taxation; and in order to ascertain the "alteration in the direct taxation, which may be required from "time to time by the changes in the relative circumstances "of the 8tates P Resolved that a Censhs be taken within six "years from the xst. meeting of the Legislature of the U.S. "and once withln the term of every Io years afterwards of all the "inhabitants of the U.S. in the manner and according to the "ratio recommended by Congress in their Resolution of April "I8. x783. and that the Legislature of the U.S. shall propor- "tion the direct taxation accordingly P Resolved, that all "bills for raising or appropriating money, and for fixing the "salaries of officers of the Govt. of the U.S. shall originate "in the first branch o� the Legislature of the U.S. and shall not "? "be altered or amended in 2d. branch: and that no mone 7 "shall be drawn from the public Treasury, but in pursuance of "appropriations to be originated in the Ist--branch. P Re- "?olvd. that in the 2d. branch of the Legislature of the U.S. "eich State shall have an equal vote") 4 The 6th. Resol: in the Report from the Come. of the whole 'House, which had been postponed in order to consider the 7 & 8th. Re?ol'ns; was now resumed. see the Resoln: (The Is. member) "That the Natl. Legislature ought to (pos- I On this compromise, see Appendix A, LXVa, CXXV, CXLVIa, CLVI, CLVIII (?6-??), CLXVI, CLXX, CLXXVII, CLXXVIII, CLXXXVIII, CXCI, CXCIII, CCI, CCXVI, CCXIX, CCXXV, CCXXX, CCLXII, CCLXIV, CCLXVII, CCLXXIV, CCC, CCCIII, CCCV, CCCXIII, CCCXIX, CCCXXVI, CCCXXXVI, CCCLXIII, CQCLXXI, CCCLXXII, CCCLXXXIII, CCCC. Upon the general compromising *pirlt of the Conventlon, see Appendix A, XXXII, XXXVIII, 'LXXXV, CXIII, CXXVIa, CXXXVII, CXL, CXLII, CLXXXVI, CC, CCa, CCXVII, CCXXIV, CCXXXII, CCLXXXII, CCLXXXIX, CCCII, CCCXLI.