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 8 ARTICLES OF CONF EDERATION OI•` Arr·r1cL¤ III. The said States hereby severally enter- intoa firm league of friendshirj with each other, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutua ' and general welfare, binding themselves to assist eac other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. Airrrcma IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse amon the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of theseétates, pau rs, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privile es andpsmmunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shail have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restrictions shall not extend so faras to prevent the removal of property imported into any State, to any other State of which the owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imémsition, duties or restriction shall be laid by any State, on the property of the United tates, or either of them. If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felomy, or other high misdemeanor in arfy State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any o the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence. Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts and judicial proceedin s of the courts and magistrates of every other State. Am·rcr,r·: V. Igor the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a wer reserved to each State, to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within th; year, and to send others in their stead, for the remain er of the year. No State, shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three ears in any term of six year·s; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding anly office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit receives any sa ar, fees or emolument of any kind. Each State shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States, and 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 be impeached or questioned in any court, or Place out of Congress, and the members of Congress shall be protected in their persons rom arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on Con ress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace. Arrrrcmv: VI. No Sgtate without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conferrence, agreement, alliance or· treaty-with any kin rince or state; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the UniEed)States, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign g1pt,e;br;cr· shall the United States in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title o no i ity. ` No two or more States shall enter into any treaty, confederation or alliance whatever between·them, without the consent of the United States in Con ess assembled, s ·ify- ing accurately the purposes for which the same is to be enteredr into, and how lbiig it shall continue. No State shall lay any imppsts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the nited States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in ursuance o any treaties already proposed by Congress, to the courts of Franlele and Spain. h H o vesse s of war s a be ke t up in time of ce b an State except such number only,as shall be deemed necesgary by the Unitgdl Stages hir Congress asisembled, for the defence of such State, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by anv State, in time of peace, except such number only, asin the judgmentof the Lnited States, in Congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to rrison the forts necessary for the defence of such State; but every State shall always Edep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutercd. and shall provide and constantly have