Page:The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 Volume 2.djvu/489

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ?', I787. JOURNAL Saturday September I. I787. The honorable Mr Brearley from the Committee of eleven to whom such parts of the Constitution, as have been postponed, and such parts of reports, as have not been acted on, were referred--informed the House that the Committee were prepared to report partiall 7- The following report was then read "That in lieu of the 9th section of the 6th article the following be inserted The Members of each House shall be ineligible to any civil Office under the authority of the United States during the time for which they shall respectively be elected--And no Pers6n holding any office under the United States shall be a Member of either House during his continuance in office. The honorable Mr Rutledge from the Committee to whom sundry propositions, entered on the Journal of the 28th ultimo were referred, informed the House that the Committee were prepared to report.- The following report was then read. That the following additions be made to the report vizt after the word "States" in the last line on the margin of the 3rd page,? add "To establish uniform laws on the subject of bankrupt- "cies"--and insert the following as the I6th article vizt. "Full faith and credit ought to be given in each State to "the public Acts, Records, and Judicial proceedings of every "other State, and the Legislature shall by general laws pre- ? Article VII, Section x (relating to the powers of Congress) had been amended (August 2x-?3) by adopting a modified report of a committee upon "state debts" and "militia ", and this amendment had apparently been written in the margin of the printed Report of the Committee of Detail. 483