354 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Tuesday JOURNAL .'lugust 2 x "find it necessary that revenue should be raised by direct "taxation, having apportioned the same, according to the "above rule, on the several States, requisitions shall be made "of the respective States to pay into the Continental Treasury "their respective quotas within a time in the said requisition "specified, and in case of any of the Stgtes failing to comply "with such requisitions, then and then only to devise and "pass acts directing the mode and authorlsing the collection "of the same." which passed in the negative [Ayes--x; noes--?; divided -- ?.] 2 It was moved and seconded to insert the following clause after the word "duty" in the first line 4 sect. 7 article "for the ptirpose of revenue" which passed in the negative. [Ayes -- 3; noes -- 8.] It was moved and seconded to amend the first clause of the 4 sect. 7 article by inserting the following words "unless by consent of two thirds of the legislature" which passed in the negative [Ayes -- 5; noes -- 6.] On the question to agree to the first clause of the 4 section of the 7 article, as reported, it passed in the affirmative. [Ayes--7; noes--4.] It was moved and seconded to insert the word "free" before the word "persons" in the 4 sect. of the 7 article. Before the question was taken on the last motion The House adjourned
- Vote 333, Detail o{ Ayes and Noes, which notes that k was "Mr. Martin's
proposition".
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