The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ORDER THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON THE MAIN QUESTION WHICH IS TO INSERT AFTER THE WORDS "STAMPED VELLUM, PARCHMENT AND PAPER", THE WORDS "DUTIES ON IMPORTED BROWN SUGAR."
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
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- This vote predates the chambers' digital roll-call records (Senate begins 1989, House 1990). It is reproduced from the official Journals of Congress as compiled by Voteview (UCLA).
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
What was on the floor
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
Every roll call on H.R. 31
How each state's members voted
In 2 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 4 every one voted no; 8 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Washington: no member on this roll call
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: no member on this roll call
- North Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Minnesota: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 1 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 6 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 8 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 2 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 1 yes, 16 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Connecticut 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Tallmadge (Federalist) — YEA
- Calvin Goddard (Federalist) — YEA
- Elias Perkins (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Cotton Smith (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Davenport (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Roger Griswold (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist) — YEA
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Sr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Milledge (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Kentucky 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 6 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Mattoon (Federalist) — YEA
- John Bacon (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Lemuel Williams (Federalist) — YEA
- Manasseh Cutler (Federalist) — YEA
- Nathan Read (Federalist) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — YEA
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Thatcher (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Eustis (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Shepard (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 2 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Campbell (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Dennis (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Plater (Federalist) — YEA
- Walter Bowie (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Henderson (Federalist) — YEA
- Charles Johnson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stanly (Federalist) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Barry Grove (Federalist) — YEA
- William Henry Hill (Federalist) — YEA
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abiel Foster (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- George Baxter Upham (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Peirce (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Tenney (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 1 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Walker (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Peter van Ness (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Latham Mitchill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Theodorus Bailey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Morris (Federalist) — YEA
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 8 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Henry Woods (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac van Horne (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Andre Hanna (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stewart (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Hemphill (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Boude (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Hoge (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Jones (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Carolina 2 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Huger (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Rutledge Jr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lowndes (Federalist) — YEA
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Tennessee 0 yes, 1 no
Virginia 1 yes, 16 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stratton (Federalist) — YEA
- John Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Brent (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Jordan Cabell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Branch Giles (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Israel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Richard Morris (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 107 members
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