RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION 6 3 Friday MADISON July 2o [To adjourn Ayes -- 8; noes-- ?.]? and then the House adjourned till to-morrow at I I o'Clock A.M. MADISON Friday July 2o -- in Convention The (postponed) Ratio of Electors for appointing the Execu- tive; to wit ? for each State whose inhabitants do not exceed ioo,ooo, * &c. being taken up. x Mr. <Madison) observed that this would make in time all or nearly all the the States equal. Since there were few that would not in time contain the number of inhabitants entitling them to 3 Electors; that this ratio ought either to be made temporary, or so varied as that it would adjust itself to the growing population of the States. Mr. Gerry moved that in the zst. in.france the Electors should be allotted to the States in the following ratio: to N.H. t. Mas. 3. R. I. L Cont. 2. N.Y. 2. N.J. 2. Pa. 3- Del. L Md. 2. Va. $. N. C. 2. S.C. 2. Geo. On the question to postpone in order to take up this motion o� Mr. Gerry. <It passed in the affirmative.) Mas. ay. Cont. no. N.J. no. Pa. ay. Del. no. Md. no. Va. ay. N. C. ay. S.C. ay. Geo. ay. [Ayes- 6; noes- 4.] Mr. Elseworth moved that 2 Electors be allotted to N.H. Some rule ought to be pursued; and N.H. has more than Ioo,ooo inhabitants. He thought it would be proper also to allot 2. to Georgia. Mr. Broom & Mr. Martin moved to postpone Mr. Gerry's allotment of Electors, leaving a fit ratio to be reported by Journal he failed to solve this difficulty. He accordingly ignored Vote x96, and ascribed the vote of August x6 to the first question in the blank of ?95- I-Ie ascribed the vote of New Hampshire to Massachusetts and recorded the total as "Yeas, 91 nay, x," in spite of the fact that the Journal specifically stated that the question was "passed unan: in the affirmative." Madison was misled by this, see below. 4 Vote x97, Detail o? Ayes and Noes. s xoo,ooo is not as Madison reported this on July x9, but accords wlth the Journal. s Madison reports this same motion made July' x9, but perhaps not seconded and now repeated.
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