: 70 It was then moved and seconded to take the vote of the House on the whole proposition namely "To receive an adequate compensation for their services, to be paid out of the public Treasury" An objection of order being taken to this motion-it was and on the question is the motion in order The determination of the House on the whole proposition was, on motion of the Deputies of the State of South Carolina, postponed till to-morrow It was moved and seconded to add the following [ “words” stricken out] clause to the 3rd resolution to be of the age of 25 years at least. It was moved and seconded to strike out the following words "and under the national government for the space of One year after it's expiration" On the question to strike out the words it passed in the negative. and then the House adjourned till to-morrow at 11 0'Clock. Α. Μ. Saturday June 23. 1787. It was moved and seconded to agree to the proposition, which was postponed yesterday, on motion of the Deputies of the State of South Carolina, namely, To receive an adequate compensation for their services, to be paid out of the Public Treasury. 4 On the question to agree to the proposition It was moved and seconded to strike out the following words On the question to strike out the words It was moved and seconded to amend the third resolution by "or the emoluments whereof shall have been augmented "by the Legislature of the United States during the time of "their being members thereof, and until they shall have "ceased to be Members for the space of one year" On the question to agree to the amendment It was moved and seconded to add after the words "ineligible "and incapable of holding" which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to strike the words "national government" out of the third resolution which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to strike the word "established" out of the 3rd resolution which passed in the affirmative 1 : It was moved and seconded to add after the word "service" in the third resolution, the words "of the first branch" which passed in the affirmative It was then moved and seconded to agree to the words it passed in the negative And then the House adjourned till monday next at 11 o'clock. Α. Μ. Monday June 25. 87. It was moved and seconded to erase the word "national" and "United States" (in the fourth resolution) which passed in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the first clause of the fourth resolution in order to take up the eighth resolution reported from the Committee On the question to postpone it passed in the negative It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of On the question to postpone it passed in the negative It was moved and seconded to agree to the first clause of the "Resolved that the Members of the second branch of the 1 On the question to agree it passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to agree to the second clause of the fourth resolution, namely "to be of the age of thirty years at least" which passed unanimously in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to erase the words "sufficient to ensure their independency" from the third clause of the fourth resolution which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to add after the words "seven years," in the fourth resolution, the words "to go out in fixed proportions" It was moved and seconded to insert the word "six" instead of "seven" It was moved and seconded to amend the clause so as to read "for four years, one fourth to go out annually" No determination being taken on the three last motions It was moved and seconded to erase the word "seven" from the 3rd clause of the fourth resolution which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to fill up the blank in the 3rd clause of the fourth resolution with the word "six" which passed in the negative It was moved and seconded to fill up the blank in the 3rd clause of the fourth resolution with the word "five" which passed in the negative And then the House adjourned till to-morrow at 11 o'clock. Α. Μ. Tuesday June 26. 1787. It was moved and seconded to amend the third clause of the fourth resolution reported from the Committee so as to read as follows, namely "for nine years, one third to go out triennially" It was then moved and seconded to amend the third clause of the fourth resolution so as to read "for six years, one third to go out biennially" On the question to agree to the amendment it passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to amend the fourth clause of the fourth resolution so as to read "to receive a compensation for the devotion of their time to the public service" which passed in the affirmative It was moved and seconded to erase the following words from the fourth resolution, namely "out of the national Treasury," and to substitute the following namely "by their respective States" which passed in the negative It was moved and seconded to agree to the following clause in the fourth resolution namely "to be paid out of the public Treasury" It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the last clause in the fourth resolution, as reported from the Committee, in order to take up the following proposition, offered as a substitute, namely |