RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Friday JOURNAL July 2o it passed in the negative. [Ayes--3; noes--7.] On the question to agree to the above resolution respecting the first election of the supreme Executive it passed in the affirmative. [Ayes--6; noes--4. ] It was moved and seconded to agree to the following resolution Resolved That the Electors respectively shall not be Mem- bers of the National Legislature, or Officers of the Union, or eligible to the office of supreme Magistrate which passed in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to agree to the following clause of the 9th resolution reported from the Committee of the whc?le House namely "To be removable on impeachment and conviction of malpractice or neglect of duty" It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the last motion which passed in the negative. [Ayes- 2; noes- 8.] It was moved and seconded to agree to the clause which passed in the affirmative [Ayes--8; noes- 2.] It was moved and seconded to agree to the following clause namely "to receive a fixed compensation for the devotion of his time to public service" which passed unan: in the affirmative [Ayes- noes -- o.] It was moved and seconded to agree to the following clause, namely "to be paid out of the national Treasury" which passed unan: in the affirmative [Ayes-- Io; noes -- o.] a
- Vote ?94, Detail of Ayes and Noes.
In the Detail of Ayes and Noes at this point the secretary of the Convention did something which was quite misleading: lie wrote the question in the blank of I95, but recorded the votes in the space below, i.e., in x96. When the first question was taken on August I6, he was evidently unprepared and recorded the vote in the first available blank which happened to be that of x95, and wrote the que?tlon "14 sect. of the 6 artlcle" after the question the vote of which had been recorded. This aeconnts for New Hampshire's vote, and Madison notes that Massachusetts waa absent when this vote was taken on August ?6. When John Quincy Adams prepared the printed
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