On Friday, June 8, 1787, Major Pierce Butler of South Carolina was alternately engaged in, and bored by, the debates of the Constitutional Convention. While delegates discussed whether smaller states would be oppressed by the larger ones in a new government, Butler sketched out a scheme for semi-proportional representation in the new legislature. At the top of the page (when it is turned this way), Butler granted three votes to each "large" state ("M" for Massachusetts, "P" for Pennsylvania, and "V" for Virginia), along with two votes apiece for five medium-sized states and one vote each for Delaware, Georgia, and Rhode Island. After the bitterest fighting of the summer, the small states won their point when the Convention gave each state the same voting power in the future Senate. In the upper right-hand corner Major Butler also seems to have engaged in a financial calculation; since the English pound was the prevailing currency in the thirteen states, money was reckoned in pounds, shillings, and pence, as he has done. His expense account?