Excerpt from The Papers of James Madison, Vol. 3: Purchased by Order of Congress; Being His Correspondence and Reports of Debates During the Congress of the Confederation and His Reports of Debates in the Federal Convention, Now Published Form the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of Stat Article sixth, relative to the elections, qualifications, and proceedings of the Legislature, resumed. - Motion to per mit members to be appointed to office during their term, but to vacate their seats. Disagreed to. Motion to permit members to be appointed during their term to offices in the Army or Navy, but to vacate their seats - Postponed. Motion to pay the members out of the National Treasury, a. Sum to be fixed by law. Agreed to. Wednesday, August 15th, Article sixth, relative to the elections, qualifications, and proceedings of the Legislature, resumed. Motion to unite the judges of the supreme court with the President, in his revisory power over acts of the Legislature. - Disagreed to. Motion to require three fourths, instead of two thirds to pass bills negatived by the Executive. - Agreed to. Motion to extend the negative of the Executive to resolves as well as bills. Disagreed to. Motion to allow the Ex contive ten days to revise bills. Agreed to. - Article sixth, as amended, agreed to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.