[132] "Memorandum.
"July 15, '87.
"About twelve days since the Convention appointed a Grand
Comee, consisting of Gerry, Ellsworth, Yates, Paterson,
Franklin, Bedford, Martin, Mason, Rutledge & Baldwin to
adjust the Representation in the two Brs. of the Legislature
of the U. S. They reported yt. every 40,000 Inhabs. taken
agreeably to the Resolution of Cong. of ye 18 Ap. 1783, shd.
send one member to the first Br. of the Legislature, yt.
this Br. shd. originate exclusively Money Bills, & also
originate ye appropriations of money; and that in ye Senate
or upper Br. each State shd. have one vote & no more. The
Representation as to the first Br. was twice recommitted
altho' not to the same Committee; finally it was agreed yt
Taxation of the direct sort & Representation shd. be in
direct proportion with each other--that the first Br. shd.
consist of 65 members, viz. N. H. 3, M. 8, R. I. 1, C. 5,
N. Y. 6, N. J. 4, P. 8, D. 1, M. 6, V. 10, N. C. 5, S. C. 5,
G. 3,--and that the origination of money Bills and the
Appropriations of money shd. belong in the first instance to
yt. Br., but yt in the Senate or 2nd Br. each State shd.
have an equal Vote. In this situation of the Report it was
moved by S. Car. that in the formation of the 2nd Br.,
instead of an equality of Votes among the States, that N. H.
shd. have 2, M. 4, R. I. 1, C. 3, N. Y. 3, N. J. 2, P. 4, D.
1, M. 3, V. 5, N. C. 3, S. C. 3, G. 2 = total 36.
"On the question to agree to this apportionment, instead of
the equality (Mr. Gorham being absent) Mass., Con., N. Jer.,
Del., N. Car., & Georg--No. Penn., Mar., Virg. & S. Car.
Aye.
"This Question was taken and to my mortification by the vote
of Mass. lost on the 14th July.
"(endorsed 'inequality lost by vote of Mass.')"--King's
Note, King's _Life and Correspondence of Rufus King_, I.,
615.