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5. The United States in Congress affembled shall have authority to appoint a committee, to fit in the recefs of Congress, to be denominated, A Committee of the States, and to confift of one delegate from each State; and to appoint fuch other committees and civil officers as may be neceffary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction; to appoint one of their number to prefide, provided that no perfon be allowed to ferve in the office of Prefident more than one year in any term of three years; to ascertain the neceffary fums of money to be raised for the fervice 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, transmitting every half year to the refpective 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 fhall be binding; and thereupon the legiflature of each State fhall 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 Congrefs affembled fhall, on confideration of circumstances, judge proper State should not raise men, or that any fhould raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other State fhould 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 fuch State, unless the legislature of fuch State fhall judge that fuch extra number cannot be safely spared out of the fame; inwhich case they shall raife, officer, cloath, arm, and equip, as many of such extra number as they judge can be fafely fpared; and the officers and men fo cloathed, armed, and equipped, fhall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congrefs affembled.

6. The United States in Congress affembled hall never engage in a war, nor grant letters

of marque and reprifal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor regulate the value thereof, nor afcertain the fums and expences neceffary 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 veffels 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 fhall a queftion 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 Congress 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, fo 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 fuch parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances, or military operations, as in their judgement require fecrecy; and the yeas and of the delegates of each State on

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any question fhall 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 tranfcript of the faid journal, except fuch parts as are above excepted, to lay before the legislatures of the several States.

ARTICLE X.

The Committee of the States, or any nine of them, fhall be authorized to execute, in the recefs of Congress, fuch of the powers of Congrefs as the United States in Congrefs affembled, by the confent of nine States, fhall from time to time think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the faid Committee, for the exercife of which, by the articles of confederation, the voice of nine States, in the Congrefs of the United States affembled, is requifite.

ARTICLE XI.

Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, fhall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union: but no other colony fhall 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 Congrefs, before the affembling of the United States, in pursuance of the prefent confederation, fhall be deemed and confidered as a charge against the United States, for payment

and fatisfaction whereof the faid 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 affembled, on all questions which by this confederation are fubmitted to them. And the articles of this confederation fhall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual; nor fhall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless fuch 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 reprefent in Congrefs,

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