Note 68 — Wednesday Sepr 12. 1787. In Convention

A note by Madison in the text says: "(here insert a transcript of the former from the annexed sheet as printed and of the latter from the draft as finally agreed to,)" and his footnote says: "This is a literal copy of the printed Report. The Copy in the printed Journal contains some of the alterations subsequently made in the House." No transcript of the report was, however, made by Madison, but the printed copy is among his papers. It is a large folio of four pages printed on one side of each page, and is accurately reproduced here. Madison's copy is marked by him: "as reported by Come of revision, or stile and arrangement Sepr 12." The report is, in fact, correctly printed in the Journal of the Federal Convention, 351, et seq., Madison's statement to the contrary being an error. General Bloomfield furnished Brearley's copy to John Quincy Adams, and he printed it without the alterations and amendments which Brearley had made. The extent of Brearley's alterations and amendments may be seen in the copy printed in the Documentary History of the Constitution, i., 362, et seq.