Mr. Gallatin thought "the rate of" would have included the small ones; and, to dissipate every doubt on the subject, he moved to replace "three cents for every five dollars," with "three-fifths of a cent for every dollar."
Carried, 39 to 24.[21]
Monday, July 3.
The bill for laying a stamp duty was read a third time, and the blanks filled up, viz: that for fixing the time of the act taking effect, with the 31st day of December next; the fine and imprisonment for counterfeiting stamps, &c., with $1,000 and seven years' imprisonment; and the time for which the duration of the act was limited, with five years.
The yeas and nays being taken on the passage of the bill, were—yeas 47, nays 41, as follows:
Yeas.—John Allen, James A. Bayard, David Brooks, James Cochran, Joshua Coit, William Craik, Samuel W. Dana, James Davenport, John Dennis, Geo. Dent, Thomas Evans, Abiel Foster, Dwight Foster, Jonathan Freeman, James Gillespie, Henry Glenn, Chauncey Goodrich, William Gordon, Roger Griswold, John A. Hanna, Robert Goodloe Harper, Thomas Hartley, William Hindman, Hezekiah L. Hosmer, Samuel Lyman, James Machir, William Matthews, Daniel Morgan, Lewis R. Morris, Harrison G. Otis, Elisha R. Potter, John Read, John Rutledge, jun., James Schureman, Samuel Sewall, William Shepard, Thomas Sinnickson, Samuel Sitgreaves, Jeremiah Smith, Nathaniel Smith, William Smith, (of Charleston,) George Thatcher, Richard Thomas, Mark Thomson, John E. Van Allen, Peleg Wadsworth, and John Williams.
Nays.—George Baer, jr., Abraham Baldwin, David Bard, Lemuel Benton, Thos. Blount, Nathan Bryan, Dempsey Burges, Samuel J. Cabell, Christopher G. Champlin, Thomas Claiborne, Matthew Clay, John Clopton, Thomas T. Davis, John Dawson, Lucas Elmendorph, John Fowler, Albert Gallatin, Jonathan N. Havens, David Holmes, Walter Jones, Edward Livingston, Matthew Locke, Matthew Lyon, Nathaniel Macon, Blair McClenachan, Joseph McDowell, John Milledge, Anthony New, John Nicholas, Josiah Parker, Thompson J. Skinner, William Smith, (of Pinckney District,) Richard Sprigg, jr., Richard Stanford, Thomas Sumter, Abram Trigg, John Trigg, Philip Van Cortlandt, Joseph B. Varnum, Abraham Venable, and Robert Williams.
Tuesday, July 4.
Duty on Salt.
Mr. Allen called up the resolution he yesterday laid upon the table, for laying an additional duty on salt.