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Show 34 .ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. provided, al 0 , that no imposition, duties or restriction shall be Jn.id by any State on the property of the U oiled States, or either of them. If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from juslice and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor, or executive })OWer of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his o[ense. Full faith nnd credit shnll be given in each of these States, to the records, acts and judicial proceedings of tho conrts and magistnttes of every other State. ARTICLE 5. For the more convenient management of tbe general interest of the United States, Delegates shall be annually appointed, in such manner as the le!ti slature of each State shall direct, to meet in Con rrress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State, to recall its Delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year. No State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members ; on<l no person shall be capn.ble of being a Delegate for more thrtn three years in any term of six years; nor shrtll any person, being a Delegate, be capable of holding an1 office under the United States, for which be, or another for his bencfi t, recei vcs uny salary, fees or emolument of nny kind. Each State shall maintain its own Delegates in any meeting of the Stutes, aucl while they act as members of the Committee of the States. In determining questions in the United States, in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote. Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not bo impeached or questioned in any court or place, out of Con· gress, and the members of Congress shall be protected iu ARTICLES OF COKFEDERATION. S5 t~10ir persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the tune of theit· going to ancl ft·om, and attendance on CongresR, cxc pt for trenson, felony, or breach of the pen.cc. An.TICLE 6. No State without the consent of the United Stat.es in Congress nsscmblcd, shall send any embassy to, or recCivc any embassy from, or enter into any conference agreement, alliance or treaty with any King, Prince 0 ; State; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, or nny of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or tille of any kind whatever from any ICing, Prince or F oreign StaLe; nor shall the United States in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility. No two or more States shall enter in to any treaty, confedern. lion or alliance whatever between them, wi thout the co.nsent of the United Stales in Congress assembled, specifymg accurately the purposes for which the same is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue. . No Sta~e shaH lay any illlposts or duties which may Interfere With any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in Conrrress as embled wi th any King p . s ' , nncc or tate, in pursunnce of any treaties already pro-posed by Congress, to the Courts of France and Spain. No vessels of war shall l>e kept up in time of peace by any SLate, except such number only, as shaiJ Le deemed uccessary by the United SU1tcs in Congress assembled, for the defense of such SLate, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces bo kept up by any State, in time of pen.cc, except snth nnmbcr only, as in the judgment of the United States, in Congress assembled, shall Le deemed rcqniRite to garrison the forts necessary for the defense of such Stnte; but every State shall alwa~s keep up a well rrgnlated and di ciplined militia., snffictently armed and accoutred, aud shall provide and have constantly ready for usc, in public stores, a due number of |
