RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION 409 Saturday JOURNAL .,l ug ust 25 permit the same shall not be prohibited by the Legislature of the U.S. until the year x8o8. which passed in the negative' On the question to agree to the first part of the report as amended, namely. "The migration or importation of such persons as the "several States now existing shall think proper to admit "shall not be prohibited by the Legislature prior to the year "I808." it passed in the affirmative. [Ayes--7; noes--4.] It was moved and seconded to strike out the words "average o{ the duties laid on Imports" and to insert the words "common impost on articles not enumerated" which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to amend the second clause of the report to read "but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation "not exceeding ten dollars for each person" which passed in the aff�mative. On the question to agree to the second clause of the report as amended it passed {n the affirmative On the question to postpone the farther consideration of the report it passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to amend the 8th article to read "This Constitution and the Laws of the United States, "which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties "made or which shall be made under the authority of the "United-States shall be the supreme law of the several States, "and o{ their citizens and inhabitants; and the Judges in the "several States shall be bound thereby in their decisions; "any thing in the constitutions or laws of the several States "to the contrary notwithstanding" which passed in the affirmative ? Journal (p. 29?) ascribes Vote 569, Detail of Ayes and Noes, to this question, but there is no apparent reason for this, and probably it is the same as reported by Madison (see below note I5) and Me. Henry.
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