Slike strani
PDF
ePub

cept such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military opera tions, as in their judgment require secrecy; and the 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.

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 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 united states assembled is requisite.

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 same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.

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 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.

ARTICLE XIII. Every state shall abide by the determinations of the united states in congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation is 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 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 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 ana 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 shali 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 thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual. In wit ness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in Congress. Done at

Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania the 9th Day of July in the Year of our Lord, 1778, and in the 3d year

[blocks in formation]

of the Independence of

On the part and behalf of the state of New Hampshire.

On the part and behalf of the state of Massachusetts-Bay.

On the part and behalf of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.

On the part and behalf of the state of Connecticut.

On the part and behalf of the state of New-York.

On the part and behalf of the state of New-Jersey, November 26th, 1778.

On the part and behalf of the state of Pennsylvania.

On the part and behalf of the state of Delaware.

On the part and behalf of the state of Maryland.

On the part and behalf of the state of Virginia.

On the part and behalf of the state of North-Carolina.

On the part and behalf of the state of South-Carolina. On the part and behalf of the state of Georgia.

THE THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

THE SENATE.

WILLIAM R. KING, President pro tempore of the Senate.

Asbury Dickens, Secretary of the Senate.

SENATORS FROM THE SEVERAL STATES, WITH THEIR PLACES OF RESIDENCE OR POST OFFICES,

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

Samuel Houston, Huntsville. Henry Dodge, Dodgeville. Augustus C. Dodge, Burlington, John C. Fremont, San Francisco.

[blocks in formation]

William M. Gwin, San Francisco.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

HOWELL COBB, of Georgia, Speaker.
Richard M. Young, Clerk.

REPRESENTATIVES from the several States for the Districts as numbered, and Delegates from the several Territories, with their places of residence, or Post Offices, respectively.

1. Amos Tuck, Exeter.

2. Charles H. Peasler, Concord.

1. Samuel A. Elliot, Boston.

2.

3. James H. Duncan, Haverhill.

4.

5. Charles Allen, Worcester.

1. George G. King, Newport.

1. Loren P. Waldo, Tolland. 2. Walter Booth, Meriden.

1. William Henry, Bellow's Falls. 2. William Hebard, Chelsea.

New Hampshire.

3. James Wilson, Keene.
4. Harry Hibbard, Bath.

Massachusetts.

6. George Ashmun, Springfield.
7. Julius Rockwell, Pittsfield.
8. Horace Mann, West Newton.
9. Orin Fowler, Fall River.
10. Joseph Grinnell, New Bedford.
Rhode Island.

1. John A. King, Jamaica. 2. David A. Boker, Brooklyn. 3. J. Philips Phoenix, New York. 4. Walter Underhill, New York. 5. George Briggs, New York. 6. James Brooks, New York. 7. William Nelson, Peekskill. 8. Ransom Halloway, Beekman. 9. Thomas McKissock, Newburg. 10. Herman D. Gould, Delhi. 11. Peter H. Silvester, Coxokie. 12. Gideon Reynolds, Hoosick. 13. John L. Schoolcraft, Albany. 14. George R. Andrews, Ticonderoga. 15. John R. Thurman, Chestertown. 16. Hugh White, Cohoes.

17. Henry P. Alexander, Little Falls.

1. Andrew K. Hay, Winslow.
2. William A. Newell, Allentown.
3. Isaac Wildrick, Blairstown.

2. Nathan F. Dixon, Westerly.
Connecticut.

3. C. F. Cleveland, Hampton.
4. Thomas B. Butler, Norwalk.
Vermont.

3. James Meacham, Middlebury.
4. Lucius B. Peck, Montpelier.
New York.

18. Preston King, Ogdensburg.
19. Charles E. Clarke, Great Bend.
20. Orsamus B. Mattison, Utica.
21. Hiram Walden, Waldensville.
22. Henry Bennett, New Berlin.
23. William Duer, Oswego.
24. Daniel Gott, Pompey.

25. Harmon S. Conger, Cortland Village.
26. William T. Jackson, Havana.
27. William A. Sackett, Seneca Falls.
28. A. M. Schermerhorn, Rochester.
29. Robert L. Rose, Allen's Hill.
30. David Rumsey, Jr., Bath.
31. Elijah Risley, Fredonia.
32. E. G. Spaulding, Buffalo.
33. Harvey Putnam, Attica.
34. Lorenzo Burrows, Albion.
New Jersey.

4. John Van Dyke, New Brunswick.
5. James G. King, Hoboken.

Pennsylvania.

1. Lewis C. Levin, Philadelphia. 2. Joseph R. Chandler, Philadelphia. 3. Henry D. Moore, Philadelphia. 4. John Robbins, Jr., Philadelphia. 5. John Freedley, Norristown. 6. Thomas Ross, Doylestown. 7. Jesse C. Dickey, New London. 8. Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster. 9. William Strong, Reading. 10. Milo M. Dimmick, Stroudsburg. 11. Chester Butler, Wilkesbarre. 12. David Wilmot, Towanda.

13. Joseph Casey, New Berlin.
14. Charles W. Pitman, Pottsville.
15.

16. J. X. McLanahan, Chambersburg.
17. Samuel Calvin, Hollidaysburg.
18. A. Jackson Ogle, Somerset.
19. Job Mann, Bedford.
20. Robert R. Reed, Washington.
21. Moses Hampton, Pittsburg.
22. John W. Howe, Franklin.
23. James Thompson, Erie.
24. Alfred Gilmore, Butler.

[blocks in formation]
« PrejšnjaNaprej »