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?58 RECORDS OF THE FEDE1LAL CONVENTION Saturday JOURNAL .4ugust ? "nor to any other place than that at which the two Houses are sitting" 8 sect. 6 article Ayes--xo; noes--1.] 4 It was moved and seconded to alter the 8th sect. of the 6. article to read as follows, namely, "The Legislature shall at their first assembling determine "on a place at which their future Sessions shall be held: "neither House shall afterwards, during the Session of the "House of Representatives, without the consent of the other, "adjourn for more than three days, nor shall they adjourn to "any other place than such as shall have been fixed by law" which passed in the negative It was moved and seconded to prefix the following words to the 8 sect. of the 6 article, namely "During the session of the Legislature "? and to strike out the last clause of the section which passed in the affirmative On the question to agree to the 8 sect. of the 6 article as amended. it passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to reconsider the 5- sect. of the 4. article which passed in the affirmative [Ayes--8; noes--?; divided- x.l and monday next was assigned for the reconsiderafion And then the House adjourned till Monday next at I ? o'Clock A.M. ? Votes 278-279. Detail of Ayes and Noes. The former probably refers to tlon 8 rather than Section 7, see Madison's record. ? McHenry reports this on August ?4.