5. The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee, to fit in the recess of Congress, to be denomi-nated, A Committee of the States, and to consist of one delegate from each State; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction; to appoint one of their number to preside, provided that no person be allowed to serve in the office of Prefident more than one year in any term of three years; to afcertain the necessary fums of money to be raised for the service of the United States, and to appropriate and apply the fame for defraying the public expences; to borrow money or emit bills on the credit of the United States, tranfmitting every half year to the respective States an account of the fums of money fo borrowed or emitted; to build and equip a navy; to a gree upon the number of land forces, and to make requifitions from each State for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in fuch State, which requifition shall be binding; and thereupon the legiflature of each State shall appoint the regimental officers, raise

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the men, and cloath, arm, and equip them in a foldier-like manner, at the expence of the United States; and the officers and men fo cloathed, armed, and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled. But if the United States in Congress assembled shall, on confideration of circumstances, judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered, cloathed, armed, and equipped in the fame manner as the quota of such State, unless the legislature of such State shall judge that such extra number cannot be fafely spared out of the same; in which cafe they shall raise, officer, cloath, arm, and equip, as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared; and the officers and men so cloathed, armed, and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled.

6. The United States in Congress assembled

shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters

of marque and reprisal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor regulate the value thereof, nor afcertain the sums and expences necessary for the defence and welfare of the United States, or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or fea forces to be raised, nor appoint a Commander in Chief of the army or navy, unless nine States affent to the fame: nor shall a question on any other point, except for adjourning from day to day, be determined, unless by the votes of a majority of the United States in Congrefs affembled.

7. The Congress of the United States shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year, and to any place within the United States, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of fix months, and shall publish the journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances, or military operations, as in their judgement require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each State on

any

any question shall be entered on the journal, when it is defired by any delegate; and "the delegates of a State, or any of them, at his or their request shall be furnished with a transcript of the faid journal, except fuch parts as are above excepted, to lay before the legiflatures of the feveral States.

ARTICLE X.

The Committee of the States, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress as the United States in Congress affembled, by the consent of nine States, shall from time to time think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the faid Committee, for the exercise of which, by the articles of confederation, the voice of nine States, in the Congress of the United States affembled, is requifite.

ARTICLE XI.

Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the fame, unless such admiffion be agreed to by nine States.

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ARTICLE XII.

All bills of credit emitted, monies borrowed, and debts contracted by, or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed and confidered as a charge against the United States, for payment and fatisfaction whereof the said United States and the public faith are hereby folemnly pledged.

ARTICLE XIII.

Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are fubmitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.

And whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the le

giflatures we respectively represent in Congress,