636 RECOl%DS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Saturday MASON September 5 Mass. has not her proportn. of Reps. and -? of the Negroes are Represented 6 Commercial powers authorlse monopolies & Compan�s- 7 Vice president dangerous The foregoing I give up MASON ? [In addition to the items noted above in the Records, Mason had made the following notes on his copy of the draft of Sep- tember I2:] In the beginning of the 4th clause of the 3rd section of the xst Article, strike out the words -- the vice-president of the United States, and instead of them insert- a vice-president of the United States shall be chosen in the manner herein- after directed who refused In the ISt clause of the Ioth section of the same Article strike out ex post facto laws- and after the words obligation of insert -- previous. refused In the latter end of the 3rd clause of the 2nd Article-- enquire of the committee about the senate chusing the vice president In the 7th clause of the ISt section of the 2nd Article-- strike out the words during the period for which he shall have been elected -- and instead of them insert -- so as in any manner to affect the person in office at the time of such increase or diminution. At the end of the xst clause of the 2nd section of the 2nd Article add the words- or Treason; but he may grant re- Taken from K. M. Rowland, Life of Gtor&t M?o?, II, 383-385.
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