FRIDAY, JULY zo, ?787. JOURNAL Friday July 20. ?787. It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the clause, respecting the number of Electors, entered on the Journal yesterday in order to take up the following namely, Resolved that for the first election of the supreme Execu- tive the proportion of Electors shall be as follows, namely New Hampshire ....... t Massachusetts ........ 3 Rhode Island ......... ? Connecticut .......... 2 New York ........... 2 New Jersey .......... z Pennsylvania ......... 3 On the question to postpone Delaware ......... I Maryland ......... 2 Virginia ............ 3 North Carolina ..... z South Carolina ..... z Georgia ........... x in all 25. Electors. it passed in the affirmative [Ayes--6; noes--4.]t It was moved and seconded to refer the last motion to a Com- mittee which passed in the negative. [Ayes--3; noes--7.] 2 It was moved and seconded to add one Elector to the States of New Hampshire and Georgia. which passed in the affirmative. [Ayes--6; noes--4. ] The last motion having been misunderstood, it was moved and seconded that it be put again--and on the question to give an additional Elector to each of the States of New Hamp- shire and Georgia Vote x87, Detail of Ayes and Noes, which notes that the proposition was "Mr. Gerry's ". Vote x88, Detail of Ayes and Noes. el. Madison's report of these proceedia� 6o
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