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Christian Majesty; provided that the Province of Nova Scotia, Island 

 of Cape Breton, and the remaining part of Newfoundland be annexed 

 to the territory and Government of the United States. 



7 No. 3. 1778, July 9: Articles of Confederation and Perpetual 



Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts 



Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New 



York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 



North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. 



ARTICLE I. The style of this confederacy shall be, "The United 

 States of America." 



ART. II. Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independ- 

 ence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this 

 confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress 

 assembled. 



ART. III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league 

 of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security 

 of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding them- 

 selves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made 

 upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, 

 or any other pretence whatever. 



ART. IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship 

 and intercourse among the people of the different States in this 

 Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vaga- 

 bonds, and fugitives, from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all 

 privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and 

 the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and 

 from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of 

 trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions, and re- 

 strictions, as the inhabitants thereof respectively ; provided that such 

 restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of prop- 

 erty imported into any State, to any other State of which the owner 

 is an inhabitant; provided, also, that no imposition, duties, or re- 

 striction, shall be laid by any State on the property of the United 

 States, or either of them. 



If any person guilty of. or charged with, treason, felony, or other 

 high misdemeanour in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found 

 in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the governor 

 or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, 

 and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence. 



Full faith and credit shall be given, in each of these States, to the 

 records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates 

 of every other State. 



ART. V. For the more convenient management of the general in- 

 terests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed 

 in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet 

 in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a 

 power reserved to each State to recall its delegates, or any of them, 

 at any time wTthin the year, and to send others in their stead for the 

 remainder of the vear. 



