Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.
The main chamber of the Constitutional Convention, consisting of all delegates.
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Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation appointed. Second Report of the Committee of Detail received. Report of the Committee on State Debts and Militia debated.
[Proposals for the Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation]
Sect. 4. [No tax or duty shall be laid by the Legislature on articles exported from any State;] nor on the migration or importation of such persons as the several States shall think proper to admit; nor shall such migration or importation be prohibited.
Sect. 5. No capitation tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census herein before directed to be taken.
Sect. 6. No navigation act shall be passed without the assent of two-thirds of the members present in each House.