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And if any state, by any legislative act, shall prevent or delay the due collection of said sums, as aforesaid, Congress shall have full power and authority to appoint assessors and collectors thereof, and sheriffs to enforce the collections under the warrants of distress issued by the treasurer of the United States; and if any further opposition shall be made to such collections by the state or the citizens thereof, and their conduct not disapproved of by the state, such conduct, on the part of the state, shall be considered as an open violation of the federal compact.

ARTICLE XVII. And any state which, from time to time, shall be found in her payments on any requisition in advance on an average of the payments made by the states, shall be allowed an interest of per cent. per annum on her said advanced sums or expences; and the state which, from time to time shall be found in arrear on the principles aforesaid, shall be charged with an interest of per cent. per annum, on the sums in which she may be so in arrear.

ARTICLE XVIII. In case it shall hereafter be found necessary by Congress to establish any new systems of revenue, and to make any new regulations in the finances of the United States for a limited term, not exceeding fifteen years, in their operation, for supplying the common treasury with monies for defraying all charges of war, and all other expences that shall be incurred for the common defence, or general welfare; and such new systems or regulations shall be agreed to and adopted by the United States in Congress assembled, and afterwards be confirmed by the legislatures of eleven states, and in that proportion when there shall be more than thirteen states in the union, the same shall become binding on all the states as fully as if the legislatures of all the states should confirm the same.

ARTICLE XIX. The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive power of declaring what offences against the United States shall be deemed treason, and what offences against the same, misprision of treason, and what offences shall be deemed piracy or felony on the high seas, and to annex suitable punishments to all the offences aforesaid respectively, and power to institute a federal judicial court, for trying and punishing all officers appointed by Congress, for all crimes, offences and misbehaviour in their offices, and to which court an appeal shall be allowed from the judicial courts of the several states, in all causes wherein questions shall arise on the meaning and construction of treaties entered into by the United States with any foreign power, or on the law of nations, or wherein any question shall arise respecting any regulations that may hereafter be made by Congress relative to trade and commerce, or the collection of federal revenues pursuant to powers that shall be vested in that body, or wherein questions of importance may arise, and the United States shall be a party; provided, that the trial of the fact by jury shall ever be held sacred, and also the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus; provided also, that no member of Congress, or officer holding any other office under the United States shall be a judge of said court; and the said court shall consist of seven judges, to be appointed from the different parts of the union, to wit, one from New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, one from Massachusetts, one from New-York and New-Jersey, one from Pennsylvania, one from Delaware and Maryland, one from Virginia, and one from North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, and four of whom shall be a quorum do business.

ARTICLE XX. That due attention may be given to the affairs of the union early in the federal year, and the sessions of Congress made as short as conveniently may be, each state shall elect her delegates annually before the first of July, and make it their duty to give an answer before the first of September in every year, whether they accept their appointments or not, and make effectual provision for filling the places of those who may decline, before the first of October yearly, and to transmit to Congress by the 10th of the same month, the names of the delegates who shall be appointed and accept their appointments, and it shall be the indispensable duty of delegates to make a representation of their state in Congress, on the first Monday of November annually; and if any delegate or delegates, when required by Congress to attend so far as may be necessary to keep up a representation of each state in Congress, or having taken his or their feat, shall withdraw without leave of Congress, unless recalled by the state, he or they shall be proceeded against as Congress shall direct; provided no punishment shall be further extended than to disqualifications any longer to be members of Congress, or to hold any office of trust or profit under the United States, or any individual state, and the several states shall adopt regulations effectual to the attainment of the ends of this article.
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The grand committee, consisting of Mr. Livermore, Mr. Dane, Mr. Manning, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Smith, Mr. Symmes, Mr. Pettit, Mr. Henry, Mr. Lee, Mr. Bloodworth, Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Houstoun, appointed to report such amendments to the Confederation, and such resolutions as it may be necessary to recommend to the several states, for the purpose of obtaining from them such powers as will render the federal government adequate to the ends for which it was instituted, beg leave to submit the following report to the consideration of Congress ...
Contributor Names
United States. Continental Congress.
Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819, former owner.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
[New York : s.n., 1786]
Subject Headings
-  United States.--Articles of Confederation
-  United States.--Continental Congress--Powers and duties
-  United States--New York--New York
Genre
Broadsides--New York (N.Y.)--1786
Broadsheet format (Printing)--New York (N.Y.)--1786
Notes
-  Report recommending seven new articles to the Articles of Confederation, given Aug. 7, 1786. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 494-501.
-  Imprint suggested by JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 31, p. 965 (#549). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of publication.
-  Not in Evans.
-  Bristol B6400
-  Shipton & Mooney 44996
-  Journals of the Continental Congress, 549
-  ESTC W5566
-  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
-  LC copy annotated on recto: Powers of Congress. Mr. Johnson.
-  Scanned card stamped as no. 2674 and 2675. LAC sba 2021-05-19.
-  LAC sba 2021-05-19 no edits (2 cards)
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1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 43 cm.
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Cont Cong no. 197
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90898174
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United States Continental Congress, William Samuel Johnson, and Continental Congress Broadside Collection. The grand committee, consisting of Mr. Livermore, Mr. Dane, Mr. Manning, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Smith, Mr. Symmes, Mr. Pettit, Mr. Henry, Mr. Lee, Mr. Bloodworth, Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Houstoun, appointed to report such amendments to the Confederation, and such resolutions as it may be necessary to recommend to the several states, for the purpose of obtaining from them such powers as will render the federal government adequate to the ends for which it was instituted, beg leave to submit the following report to the consideration of Congress. [New York: s.n, 1786] Online Text. https://www.loc.gov/item/90898174/.

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United States Continental Congress, Johnson, W. S. & Continental Congress Broadside Collection. (1786) The grand committee, consisting of Mr. Livermore, Mr. Dane, Mr. Manning, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Smith, Mr. Symmes, Mr. Pettit, Mr. Henry, Mr. Lee, Mr. Bloodworth, Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Houstoun, appointed to report such amendments to the Confederation, and such resolutions as it may be necessary to recommend to the several states, for the purpose of obtaining from them such powers as will render the federal government adequate to the ends for which it was instituted, beg leave to submit the following report to the consideration of Congress. [New York: s.n] [Online Text] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/90898174/.

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United States Continental Congress, William Samuel Johnson, and Continental Congress Broadside Collection. The grand committee, consisting of Mr. Livermore, Mr. Dane, Mr. Manning, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Smith, Mr. Symmes, Mr. Pettit, Mr. Henry, Mr. Lee, Mr. Bloodworth, Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Houstoun, appointed to report such amendments to the Confederation, and such resolutions as it may be necessary to recommend to the several states, for the purpose of obtaining from them such powers as will render the federal government adequate to the ends for which it was instituted, beg leave to submit the following report to the consideration of Congress. [New York: s.n, 1786] Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/90898174/>.

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