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  1. Overview: U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)
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  4. Session: 1787-07-05 11:00:00
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U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)

Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.

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Session 6230: 1787-07-05 11:00:00

First Committee on Representation reported. Connecticut Compromise reintroduced.

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Report of the First Committee on Representation (Amended)

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[Report of the First Committee on Representation as Amended by the Convention]

Resolved — That in the suffragesoriginal formation of the Legislature of the United States the first Branch thereof shall consist of sixty five members — of which number

New Hampshire shall send ..... Three

Massachusetts .......................... Eight

Rhode Island ............................. One

Connecticut ............................... Five

New York ................................... Six

New Jerseveraey ............................... Four

Pennsyl Stvania ............................. Eightes be regulated and proportioned accord

Delaware ................................... One

Maryland .................................... Six

Virginia ....................................... Ten

North Carolina .......................... Five

South Carolina .......................... Five

Georgia ...................................... Three.

But as the present situation of the States may probably alter in the number of their ing tohabitants the Legislature of the sums toUnited States shall be authorized from time to time to apportion the number paid towards the General Revenue bof representatives: and in case any of the States shall hereafter be divided, or enlarged by addition of territory, or any two or more States united, or any New States created within the limits of the United States the Legislature of the United States shall possess authority to regulate the number of representatives: in any of the foregoing cases upon the principle of their number of inhabitants, according to the provisions hereafter mentioned, namely,

Provided always theat representation ought to be proportioned according to direct Taxation; and in order to ascertain the alteration in the direct Taxation, which may be required from time to time by the changes in the relative circumstances of each State respectively — That an apporthe States — Resolved that a Census be taken within six years from the first Meeting of the Legislature of the United States, and onment of suffrages, accce within the term of every Ten years afterwards of all the ing tohabitants of the ratio aforesaid, shall be made and regulated at the end of years from the first MeetingUnited States in the manner and according to the ratio recommended by Congress in their resolution of April 18. 1783 — and that the LegislaturLegislature of the United States shall proportion the direct Taxation accordingly. That from the United-States — and so from time to time first meeting of the Legislature of the United States until a Census shall be taken, all monies for supplying the public Treasury by direct Taxation shall be raised from the the end of every yseveral States ars thereafter — but that for the present, and until the period first abovccording to the number of their representatives respectively in the first Branch.

Resolved That all Bills for raising or appropriating money, and for fixing the salaries of the Officers of the Government of the United States shall originate in the first Branch of the Legislature of the United States, and shall not be mentioned shaltered haveor amended by the second Branch — and that no money suffrage &cashall be drawn from the Public Treasury but in pursuance of appropriations to be originated by the first Branch.

8. Resolved That in the second Branch of the Legislature of the United States each State shall have an equal vote.

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