374 APPENDIX. 



Virginia . . . . Mr, Jefferson, no. ^ 



Hardy, no. ^ no 

 Mercer, na. j 



North Carolina . . . Mr. Spaight, no 



Williamson ay ^ 

 South Carolina . . . Mr. Read, no. i 



Beresford, no. \ "°' 

 So the question was lost, and the words were struck out. " (2.) 



"March 16, 1785, a motion was made by Mr. Kmrr, and 

 seconded by Mr. Ellery, that the following proposition be com- 

 mitted: 



" That there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servi- 

 tude in any of the States described in the resolve of con- 

 gress of the 23d of April, 1784, otherwise than in the punish- 

 ment of crimes whereof the party shall have been personally 

 guilty: and that this regulation shall be an article of compact, 

 and remain a fundamental principle of the Constitutions be- 

 tween the thirteen original states, and each of the states describ- 

 ed in the said resolve of the 23d April, 1784." 



On the question of commitment. New Hampshire, Massachu- 

 setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn- 

 sylvania and Maryland, voted in the affirmative: Virginia, (3^ 

 North Carolina and. South Carolina in the negative. So it 

 was resolved in the affirmative. 



On the 7th of July, 1786, Congress resolved that the stipula- 

 tion contained in the cession of Virginia, respecting the division 

 into separate States of the territory northwest of the Ohio river, 

 would be attended with great inconvenience, and recommend- 

 ed Virginia to revise and alter the terms of cession, which was 

 afterwards done. 



September 29, 1785, Congress took into consideration an 

 ordinance for the government of the Western Territory report- 

 ed by a committee consisting of Johnson of Connecticut, Pick- 

 ney, of South Carolina, Smith, of New York, Dane, of Massa- 

 chusetts, and McHenry, of Maryland : and, after considering 



(2) Seven, or a majority of the whole number of States, (Uiirteen,) were 

 wanted to carry a question. 



(3) Grayson voted in tlie affirmative; Hardy and Lee in the negative. 



