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Ordered, That the constitution be engrossed.
The house adjourned.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1787.

The engrossed constitution being read,

It was moved, that the constitution be signed by the members in the following, as a convenient form :

"Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of "the states present, the 17th September, &c. In witCC ness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our "names."

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It was moved to reconsider the clause declaring "that the number of representatives shall not exceed one for every forty thousand," in order to strike out "forty thousand," and insert "thirty thousand"— Which passed in the affirmative.

On the question to agree to the constitution, enrolled in order to be signed,

All the states answered AY.

On the question to agree to the above form of signing,

It passed in the affirmative.

YEAS-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia

DIVIDED-South Carolina

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It was moved that the journal, and other papers of the convention, be deposited with the president

Which passed in the affirmative.

YEAS-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

NAY-Maryland

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The president having asked what the convention meant should be done with the journal-it was resolved, nem. con. "That he retain the journal and other "papers, subject to the order of the Congress, if ever "formed under the constitution."

The members proceeded to sign the constitution; and the convention then dissolved itself by an adjournment sine die.

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SUPPLEMENT.

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HE following extract from the journal of the Congress of the confederation, exhibits the proceedings of that body on receiving the report of the convention.

UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1787.

PRESENT, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, and from Maryland Mr. Ross.

Congress having received the report of the convention lately assembled in Philadelphia,

Resolved, unanimously, That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that

case.

The states having accordingly passed acts for severally calling conventions, and the constitution being submitted to them, the ratifications thereof were transmitted to Congress as follows:

DELAWARE.

WE the deputies of the people of the Delaware state, in convention met, having taken into our serious consideration the federal constitution proposed and agreed upon by the deputies of the United States in a general convention held at the city of Philadelphia, on the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, have approved, assented to, ratified and confirmed, and by these presents do, in virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, for and in behalf of ourselves and our constituents, fully, freely, and entirely approve of, assent to, ratify and confirm the said constitution.

Done in convention at Dover, this seventh day of December, in the year aforesaid, and in the year of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.-In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

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Woodman Storkley, Daniel Cummins, sen. Solomon Maxwell,

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I Thomas Collins, president of the Delaware state,

do hereby certify, that the above instrument of writing is a true copy of the original ratification of the federal constitution by the convention of the Delaware state, which original ratification is now in my possession. In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the Delaware state to be hereunto annexed.

THOMAS COLLINS.

PENNSYLVANIA..

In the name of the people of Pennsylvania.

Be it known unto all men, that we the delegates of the people of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general convention assembled, have assented to, and ratified, and by these presents do, in the name and by the authority of the same people, and for ourselves, assent to, and ratify the foregoing constitution for the United States of America. Done in convention, at Philadelphia, the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eightyseven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.-In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, President.

George Latimer,

Benjamin Rush,

Hilary Baker,

James Wilson,

Thomas M'Kean,

To. Macpherson,
John Hunn,
George Gray,
Samuel Ashmead,
Enoch Edwards,

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