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THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor.
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.
ART. 11. 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.
ART. 12. 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.
ART. 13. 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 invioably 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 authorise
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 and 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 thereof shall be invioably
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 9th day of July, in the year of our Lord,
1778, and in the third year
of the independence of America.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
JOSIAH BARTLETT,
JOHN WENTWORTH, jun.
JOHN HANCOCK,
SAMUEL ADAMS,
MASSACHUSETTS-BAY,
ELBRIDGE GERRY,
FRANCIS DANA,
JAMES LOVELL,
SAMUEL HOLTON.
WILLIAM ELLERY,
RHODE-ISLAND,
&c.
HENRY MERCHANT,
JOHN COLLINS.
ROGER SHERMAN,
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON,
CONNECTICUT,
OLIVER WOLCOTT,
TITUS HOSMER,
ANDREW ADAMS.
JAMES DUANE
NEW-YORK,
FRANCIS LEWIS,
WILLIAM DUER,
GOVERNEUR MORRIS.
NEW-JERSEY,
JOHN WITHERSPOON,
NATHANIEL SCUDDER.
ROBERT MORRIS,
DANIEL ROBERDEAU,
PENNSYLVANIA,
JONATHAN BAYARD SMITH,
WILLIAM CLINGAN,
JOSEPH REED.
THOMAS McKEAN,
DELAWARE,
JOHN DICKINSON,
NICHOLAS VANDYER
MARYLAND,
JOHN HANSON,
DANIEL CARROLL.
RICHARD HENRY LEE,
JOHN BANISTER,
VIRGINIA,
THOMAS ADAMS,
JOHN HARVEY,
FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE.
JOHN PENN,
NORTH-CAROLINA,
CORNELIUS HARNETT,
JOHN WILLIAMS.
HENRY LAURENS,
WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON,
SOUTH-CAROLINA,
JOHN MATTHEWS,
RICHARD HUTSON,
THOMAS HAYWARD, jun.
JOHN WALTON,
GEORGIA,
EDWARD TELFAIR,
EDWARD LANGWORTHY. |
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