10 ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION OF appointed, in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive; and if any of the parties shall refuse to submit to the authority of such court, or to appear or defend their claim or cause, the court shall nevertheless proceed to pronounce sentence, or judgment, which shall in like manner be iinal and decisive, the judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress, and lodged among the acts of Conress for the security of the parties concerned: provided that every commissioner. before Ee sits in judgment, shall take an oath to be a n1inistered by one of the judges of the supreme or superior court of the State where the cause shall be tried, " well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favour, affection or ho e of reward: " provided also that no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of) the United States. All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more States, whose jurisdiction as they may respect such lands, and the States which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be imally determined as near as may be in the same manner as is before prescribed for deciding disputes respecting territorial `urisdiction between different States. The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States.—tixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States.-regulating the trade and managing al affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated~establishing and regulating post-offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the pag.}-)€l’S passing thro’ the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said o ce-—appointing all officers of the land forces, in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers—appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States—making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated "a Committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each State; and to appoint such other committees and civil omcers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction—-to appoint one of their number to preside, provided that no person be allowed to serve in the office of president more than one year in any term of three years; toascertain the necessary sums of n1ouey to be raised for the service of the United States. and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses—to borrow money, or emit bills on the credit of the United States, transmitting every half year to the respective States an account of the sums of money borrowed or emitted, —to build and equip a navy-—to agree upon the number of land fOl'C€S, and to make l'€ql.liSlt.lOIIS from each State for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such State; which requisition shall be binding, and thereupon the Legislature of each State shall a point the regimental officers, raise the men and cloath, arm and equi them in a soldie1· like manner, at the expense of the United States; and the officers andp men so cloathed, armed and equipped s all march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled: but 1f)t?he United States in Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a. smaller number than its quota, and that any other State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered, cloathed, armed and equipped in the same manner as the quota or such. State, unless the legislature of such State shall judge that such extra number cannot be safely spared out of the same, in which case they shall raise officer, cloath, arm and equi as many of such extra number as they judge can besafely spared. And the officers and) men so cloathed, armed and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled. The United States in Congress assembled shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor re ulate the value thereof, nor ascertain the sums and expenses necessary for the defence and welfare of the United States, or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war, to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces
