DOCUMENTS BEAKING ON TKEATY OF 1183. 17 



yeas and nays of the delegates of each State on any question, shall 

 be entered on the journal, when it is desired 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 said journal, except such parts as 

 are above excepted, to lay before the legislatures of the several States. 



ART. X. The committee of th 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 assembled, by the con- 

 sent of nine States, shall, from time to time, think expedient to vest 

 them with ; provided that no power be delegated to the said commit- 

 tee, for the exercise of which, by the Articles of Confederation, the 

 voice of nine States, in the Congress of the United States assembled, 

 is requisite. 



ART. 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 ad- 

 mitted into the same unless such admission be agreed to by nine 

 States. 



ART. XII. All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts 

 contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assem- 

 bling of the United States, in pursuance of the present Confederation, 

 shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, 

 for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the 

 public faith are hereby solemnly pledged. 



ART. XIII. Every State shall abide by the determinations of the 

 United States, in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this 

 Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Con- 

 federation 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 legislatures we respectively represent in Con- 

 gress to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles 

 of Confederation and perpetual Union, Know ye, that we, the under- 

 signed delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given 

 for that purpose, do, by these presents, in the name and in behalf of 

 our respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm each 

 and every of the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union, 

 and all and singular the matters and things therein contained. And 

 we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective 

 constituents, that they shall abide J>y the determinations of the United 

 States, in Congress assembled, on all questions which by the said 

 Confederation are submitted to them; and that the Articles thereof 

 shall be inviolably observed by the States we respectively represent, 

 and that the Union shall be perpetual. In witness whereof we have 

 hereunto set our hands in Congress. Done at Philadelphia, in 

 10 the State of Pennsylvania, the ninth day of July, in the year 

 of our Lord 1778, and in the third year of the Independence of 

 America. 



[These Articles were not ratified by all the States until 1st March 

 1781, when the delegates of Maryland, the latest in ratifying, signed 

 for her.] 



