Chapter XXVII: Section 2: No territory shall be acquired by the United

States, except by discovery, and for naval and commercial
stations, depots, and transit routes, without the
concurrence of a majority of all the Senators from States
which allow involuntary servitude, and a majority of all the
Senators from States which prohibit that relation; nor shall
territory be acquired by treaty, unless the votes of a
majority of the Senators from each class of States
hereinbefore mentioned be cast as a part of the two-thirds
majority necessary to the ratification of such treaty.

The vote on the adoption of section two was taken, and resulted as follows:

AYES.--Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New
Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and
Virginia--11.

NOES.--Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts,
North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Vermont--8.

New York and Kansas were divided.

So the section was adopted.

The following gentlemen dissented from the vote of their States: Mr. MEREDITH and Mr. WILMOT, of Pennsylvania; Mr. RUFFIN and Mr. MOREHEAD, of North Carolina; Mr TYLER, of Virginia; Mr. CLAY, of Kentucky; and Mr. HACKLEMAN and Mr. ORTH, of Indiana.

Mr. GUTHRIE:--I now move the adoption of the third section of the report as amended, and request that it may be read.

The Secretary proceeded to read as follows: