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520 RECORDS OF TIlE FEDERAL CONVENTION Friday McHENRY /lugust ?7 McHENRY August x 7. Agreed "to appoint a treasurer by joint Ballot; To con- stitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court; To make rules concerning captures on land and water; expunged the next section and inserted To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas; To punish counterfeiting the securities and the current coin of the United States. Struck out the clause To subdue a rebellion etc. Debated the difference between a power to declare war, and to make war--amended by substituting declare--ad- journed without a question on the clause.
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