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XIII.

Each State fhall have a vote for the decifion of queftions in the General Affembly.

XIV.

The General Affembly of the United States, fhall alone and exclufively have the right and power to de cide of peace and war, except in the cafe mentioned in Article XI.-to establish rules for judging in all cafes the legitimacy of the prizes taken by fea or land, and to determine the manner in which the prizes taken by the land or fea forces, in the fervice of the United States, fhall be divided or employed;-to grant letters of marque or reprifal in time of peace; --to appoint tribunals to take cognizance of piracies, and all other capital crimes committed on the high feas;--to eftablish tribunals to receive appeals, and judge finally in all cafes of prizes;--to fend and receive ambaffadors;--to negociate and conclude treaties or alliances;--to decide all differences actually fubfifting, and that may arise here. after between two and feveral of the aforementioned States about limits, jurifdiction, or any other caufe whatsoever;to coin money, and fix iis value and ftandard ;-to fix the weights and measures throughout the whole extent of the United States ; regulate commerce, and treat of all affairs with the Indians who are not members of any of the States ;to establish and regulate the posts from oae State to another, in the whole extent of the United States ;to give commiffions to the other officers of the faid troops, who fhall have been appointed by virtue of Article VIII.to appoint all the officers of marine in the fervice of the United States;-to frame all the ordinances neceffary for the governornment

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and difcipline of the faid land and fea forces; and to direct their operations.

The General Affembly of the United States fhall be authorized to appoint a Council of State, and fuch committees and civil officers as they fhall judge neceffary or guiding and difpatching the general affairs under their authority, whilst they remain fitting, and after their feparation, under the authority of the Council of State. They fhall choose for prefident one of the members, and for fecretary the perfon whom they fhall judge fit for that place; and they may adjourn at what time of the year, and to what place in the United States they fhall think proper.They fhall have the right and power to determine and fix the fums neceffary to be raifed, and the dif bursements neceffary to be made; to borrow mo

ney, and create bills on the credit of the United States, to build and fit out fleets ;-to determine the number of troops to be raifed or kept in pay;and to require of each of the aforefaid States to compofe the army, a contingent proportioned to the number of its white inhabitants.-Thefe requifitions of the General Affembly fhall be binding, and in confequence the legislative body of each ftate fhall nominate the particular officers, levy the men, arm and equip them properly; and thofe officers and foldiers, thus armed and equipped, fhall proceed to the place, and within the time affixed by the General Affembly.

But if the General Affembly, from fome parti cular circumstances, fhould think proper to exempt one or feveral of the States from raifing troops, or to demand of them lefs than their contingent, and fhould on the contrary judge it convenient that one or feve ral others fhould raife more than their contingent ;

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provided with officers, armed and equipped in the fame manner as the contingent, unless the legislative body of that, or of thofe of the States to whom the requifition fhall have been made, fhould deem it dangerous for themfelves to be drained of that number extraor dinary, and in that cafe they fhall furnish no more than what they think compatible with their fafety, and the officers and foldiers fo equipped fhall go to the place, and within the time fixed by the General Affembly.

The General Affembly hall never engage in any war, nor grant letters of mark or reprifal in time of peace, nor contract any treaties of alliance or other 'conventions, except to make peace ; nor coin money or regulate its value, nor determine or fix the fums neceffarý to be raised, or the difbúrfements neceffary to be made for the defence or advantage of the Unired States, or of fome of them, nor create bills, nor bort row money on the credit of the United States, not difpofe of any fums of money, nor refolve on the number of ships of war to be built or purchased, or on the number of troops to be raised for land or fea fervice, nor appoint a command or chief of the land and fea forces, but by the united confent of nine of the States: and no question on any point whatsoever, except for adjourning from 'one day to another, fhall be decided, but by a majority of the United States.

No delegates fhall be chofen for more than three years out of fix.

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No perfon invefted with any employment whatever in the extent of the United States, and receiving, by virtue of thats employment, either by himfelf or through the hands of any other for him, any falaries, wages, or emoluments whatever, fhall be chofen à delegate.

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