Note 59 — Chapter VIII
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This amendment of the Committee of the Whole was adopted by a vote of 63 to 53. The New England States stood 3 to 2 for the death penalty; the Middle States were evenly divided, 3 and 3; and the South stood 5 to 0 against it, with Kentucky evenly divided. Cf. House Journal (repr. 1826), 9 Cong. 2 sess. V. 504.