L. 1779, Chap. XXX.

A SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, entitled an act of accession to and approbation of certain proposed articles of confederation and perpetual union, between the United States of America, and to authorize the delegates of the State of New York to ratify the same on the part and behalf of this State, in the Congress of the said United States.

PASSED 23d October, 1779.

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WHEREAS, In and by a certain act of the legislature of this state of Preamble reciting in New York, entitled, "An act of accession to, and approbation of, certain part, the proposed articles of confederation and perpetual union between the act for rati United States of America, and to authorize the delegates of the state of confedera New York to ratify the same on the part and behalf of this state, in the tion on the congress of the said United States," among other things reciting certain state. articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, transmitted by the honorable congress of the United States of America, for the consideration of the legislature of this state, and for their ratification, in case they should approve of the same. It is enacted, That the said several articles of confederation, and all and singular the matters, clauses and things in the same contained, be, and the same are thereby fully accepted, received and approved of, for, and in behalf of the people of this state; and to the end that the same might, with all due form and solemnity, be ratified and confirmed by this state in congress; It is further enacted, That the With prodelegates of this state, in the said congress of the United States of Amer- viso not to be binding ica, or any two of the said delegates should be, and thereby are fully on this state until authorized, empowered and required, wholly, entirely and absolutely, for and in behalf of the people of this state, and in such manner, and under such formalities as shall be determined in congress, to ratify and confirm all and every the said articles of confederation, and all and singular the clauses, matters and things therein contained: provided always, that nothing in that act, or the said therein recited articles of confederation con tained, nor any act, matter, or thing to be done and transacted by the delegates of this state in congress, in and concerning the premises or any part thereof, should bind or oblige, or be construed, deemed or esteemed to bind or oblige the government, legislature, people, subjects, inhabitants, or residents of this state, until the said above recited articles of confederation shall have been ratified and confirmed, by or in behalf of all the said United States in congress assembled, as by the said act relation thereunto being had, may more fully appear. And whereas, It may become essential to the permanent welfare and security of these United States, that Power the said articles of confederation and perpetual union should be ratified given to and carried into effect by such of the said states as have acceded or shall of the dele. accede thereto, although the same should not receive the immediate ap- gates with probation and sanction of all: Be it therefore enacted by the people of the any of the state of New York represented in senate and assembly, and it is hereby consenting enacted by the authority of the same: That full power and authority shall and lawfulbe, and is hereby granted to the delegates of this state, in the congress of ized, for the United States of America, or any three of them; and the said dele- complish. gates, or any three of them, are hereby accordingly authorized and empowered, for and in behalf of this state, to unite for the final accom- tion.

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plishment of the said confederation and perpetual union, with such and confirm the SO many of the delegates of the said United States respectively, who same in may for that purpose be lawfully authorized, as they shall in their wiswhich shall dom judge proper and competent for mutual defense and permanent sebe binding curity; and thereupon in such manner and such formalities as may be deemed expedient, shall ratify and confirm all and every the said articles of confederation and perpetual union. And this state and the inhabitants and residents within the same, shall at all times thereafter be bound by, and held to, the due observance of the said articles, and every clause thereof, as long as the said confederation shall subsist and endure; any thing in the said recited act of the legislature of this state, or in the said articles of confederation to the contrary notwithstanding.

long as the confedera tion shall endure.

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scribe and ratify the words herein mentioned in the

place thereof.

L. 1785, Chap. LXIII.

AN ACT acceding to the recommendation of Congress on the 18th of April, 1783, relative to the eighth Article of Confederation and perpetual union of the United States of America.

PASSED 9th April, 1785.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same:

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That so much of the eighth of the articles of confederation and perpetual union between the thirteen states of America, as is contained in the words following, to wit: "All charges of war, and all other expenses that "shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed "by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states in pro"portion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed "for any person as such lands and the buildings and improvements there66 on, shall be estimated according to such mode as the United States in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint," shall be and the same is hereby revoked and made void, so far as the same extended to this state.

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§ 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the delegates for the time being, representing this state in the congress of the United States, or any three of them, and they are hereby required to subscribe and ratify the following, as part of the said instrument of union, and in place of the part revoked and made void as aforesaid, to wit: "That all charges of war, and all other expenses that have been or shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assem"bled, except so far as shall be otherwise provided for, shall be defrayed "out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states "in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and "inhabitants of every age, sex and condition, including those bound to "servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not "comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not paying "taxes in each state;" which said alteration when so subscribed and ratified, shall be deemed and held to be as sufficient and valid for the purvoked, was poses therein mentioned, as the part hereinbefore revoked and made void, revocation. Was or ought to have been before the revocation and disannulling thereof..

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