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appoint a Commander in chief of the Army or Navy, unless nine States assent to the same, nor shall a Question on any other point, except for adjourning from Day to Day bedetermined, unless by the Votes of a Majority of the United States in Congress assembled.

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 six Months; and shall publish the Journal of their Proceedings Monthly, except such parts thereof relating to Treaties, Alliances, or Military Operations, as in their Judgment require Secrecy; and 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 Legislature of the several States.

ART. 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 assembled, 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 said Committee, for the Exercise of which, by the Articles of Confederation, the Voice of nine States in the Congress of the Untited Sates 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 admitted into the Same, unless such Admission be agreed to by n ine States. ART. XII. All Bills of Credit emitted, Moneys borrowed, and Debts contracted by, or under the Authority of Congress, before the Assembling of the United States, in pursuance of 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 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 by 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 Congress to approve of and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union; KNOW YE, that we, the undersigned 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 by 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 there

of 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 the State of Pennsylvania, the ninth Day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, and in the third Year of the Independence of America.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of New Hampshire.

JOSIAH BARTLETT,

JOHN WENTWORTH, Jun., August 8, 1778.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of Massachusetts Bay.

JOHN HANNOCK,
SAMUEL ADAMS,

ELBRIDGE GERRY,
FRANCIS DANA,

JAMES LOVELL,
SAMUEL HOLTEN.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of R. I., and Providence Plantations.

WILLIAM ELLERY,

HENRY MARCHANT,

JOHN COLLINS.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of Connecticut.

ROGER SHERMAN,
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON,

OLIVER WOLCOTT,
TITUS HOSMER,

ANDREW ADAMS.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of New York.
FRA. LEWIS,

JAS. DUANE,

WM. DUER,

GOUV. MORRIS.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of New Jersey.
NATH SCUDDER, do.

JNO. WITHERSPOON, Nov. 26, 1778.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of Pennsylvania.
JONA. BAYARD SMITH, JOS, REED, 22d July, 1778.
WILLIAM CLINGAN.

ROBT. MORRIS,
DANIEL ROBERDEAU,

On the Part and Behalf of the State of Delaware.

THOS. M'KEAN, Feb. 13, 1779
JOHN DICKINSON, May 5th, 1779

NICHOLAS VAN DYKE.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of Maryland.

JOHN HANSON, March 1, 1781.

DANIEL CARROLL, do.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of Virginia.

RICHARD HENRY LEE,
JOHN BANISTER,

On the Part and
JOHN PENN, July 21st, 1778.

THOMAS ADAMS, FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE.
JNO. HARVIE,

Behalf of the State of North Carolina.
CORNS. HARNETT,

JNO. WILLIAMS.

THOMAS HEYWARD, Jun. RICHARD HUTSON.

On the Part and Behalf of the State of South Carolina.
JNO. MATHEWS,

HENRY LAURENS,
WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON,

On the Part and Behalf of the State of Georgia.

JNO. WALTON, 24th July, 1778. EDWD. TELFAIR, EDW. LANGWORTHY. [Note. From the circumstance of delegates from the same state having signed the Articles of Confederation at different times, as appears by the dates, it is probable they affixed their names as they happened to be present in Congress, after they had been authorized by their constituents.]

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT.

December 20. 1874.

THE EXECUTIVE.

ULYSSES S. GRANT, of Illinois, President of the United States.
HENRY WILSON, of Massachusetts, Vice-President of the United States.

THE CABINET.

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HAMILTON FISH, of New York, Secretary of State..
BENJAMIN H. BRISTOW, of Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury..
WILLIAM W. BELKNAP, of Iowa, Secretary of War..
GEORGE M. ROBESON, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy.
COLUMBUS DELANO, of Ohio, Secretary of the Interior...
EDWARD PIERREPONT, of New York, Attorney-General.
MARSHALL JEWELL, of Connecticut, Postmaster-General.

THE JUDICIARY.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

.Salary $10,500

MORRISON R. WAITE, of Ohio, Chief Justice....
NATHAN CLIFFORD, of Maine, Ass., Justice. | STEPHEN J. FIELD, of Cal., Ass., Justice.
NOAH H. SWAYNE, of Ohio,
WILLIAM M. STRONG, of Pa., "
JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, of N. J., 66
SAMUEL F. MILLER, of Iowa,
DAVID DAVIS, of Illinois,
WARD HUNT, of N. Y.,

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Salary of Associate Justices, $10,000. Court meets first Monday in Dec. at Washington.

MINISTERS TO FOREIGN.COUNTRIES.

ENVOYS EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY,

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