RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Saturday JOURNAL adjourn the Convention and that no motion for adjournment be allowed. which passed in the affirmative [Ayes--9; noes- z.] It was moved and seconded to insert the words "and sup- port" between the word "raise" and the word "armies" in the x4. clause, I sect, 7 article which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to strike out the words "build and equip" and to insert the words "provide and maintain" in the I5 clause, I sect. 7 article which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to insert the following as a x6th clauses in the x sect. of the 7. article "To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces" which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to annex the following proviso to the last clause "provided that in time of peace the army shall not consist "of more than thousand men's which passed 2 in the negative. It was moved and seconded to insert the following as a clause in the I sect. of the 7 article "to make laws for regulating and disciplining the militia "of the several States, reserving to the several States the "appointment of their militia Officers" It was moved and seconded to postpone the last clause in order to take up the following "To establish an uniformity of exercise and arms for the "militia--and rules for their government when called into "service under the authority of the United States: and to "establish and regulate a militia in any State where it's Legis- "lature shall neglect to do it" It was moved and seconded to refer the last two motions to a. Committee which passed in the affirmative
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