VALIN. Nouveau Commentaire sur L'Ordonnance de la Marine: 1681. VATTEL'S Law of Nations; or principles of the Law of Nature, applied to the conduct and affairs of Nations and Sovereigns.-[In French, 1775, and English, 1820.] WARD'S Inquiry into the foundations and history of the Law of Nations in Europe, from the time of the Greeks and Romans, to the age of Grotius: 1795, WENCKII Codex Jurisgentium. WHEATON'S Digest of the Law of Maritime Captures and Prizes: 1815. Elements of International Law: 1846. WICQUEFORT'S Ambassador and his functions: to which is added an historical Discourse concerning the election of the Emperor, and the Electors, translated into English by Mr. Digby. MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. ELLIOT'S Diplomatic Code of the United States of America: embracing a col lection of Treaties and Conventions between the United States and Foreign Powers, from 1778 to 1827. HALL'S Observations on the Warehousing System and Navigation Laws, &c.: 1821. HAMILTON'S (Alexander) Works, printed in 1810. HATSELL'S Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons; with observations: 1786. LORD'S Principles of Currency and Banking. New York: 1829. Essay on the Principle of Population: 1809. PHILLIPS'S Manual of Political Economy: 1828. RAYMOND'S Elements of Political Economy: 1823. SAY'S Treatise on Political Economy, translated from the French: 1827. SKIDMORE'S Rights of Man to Property: 1829. SMITH'S Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, with Notes and Supplementary Chapters, by William Playfair: 1818. TAYLOR'S Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated: 1820. THE DIPLOMACY of the United States: being an account of the Foreign Relations of the country, from 1778 to 1814. Printed in 1826. A DIGEST of the Commercial Regulations of the different Foreign Nations with which the United States have intercourse: 1824. A GENERAL Outline of the United States of North America, her Resources and Prospects, with a Statistical Comparison, showing the advances made in National Opulence in thirty years: 1823. NOVANGLUS AND MASSACHUSETTENSIS, or Political Essays, published in 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy between Great Britain and her colonies: the former by John Adams, the latter by Jonathan Sewall: 1819. PITKIN'S Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America, its connection with Agriculture and Manufactures: 1817. POLITICAL MISCELLANIES, compiled by W. B. Giles: 1829. SELECT PAMPHLETS, consisting of an exposition of the causes and character of the war; and an examination of the British Doctrine which subjects to capture a Neutral Trade not open in time of peace: 1815. SEYBERT'S Statistical Annals of the United States of America: 1818. THE DUPLICATE LETTERS; the Fisheries, and the Mississippi: documents relating to transactions at the negotiations of Ghent, collected and published by John Quincy Adams: 1822. WAIT'S State Papers, and public documents of the United States: 1819. WATTERSTON AND VAN ZANDT'S Tabular Statistical Views of the United States: 1829. BLOUNT'S Historical Sketch of the formation of the Confederation, particularly with reference to the Provincial Limits and the Jurisdiction of the General Government over Indian tribes and the public territory: 1825. DEBATES and other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia, convened in June, 1788, for the purpose of deliberating on the Constitution of the United States: 1805. CHAPTER 12. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION BETWEEN THE STATES. (See remarks, Chapter 2, pages 129 to 131, and residue of that Chapter. Chapter 10, pages 397, 398, and 406 to 421.) 66 The following have been critically compared with the original Articles of Confederation in the Department of State, and found to conform minutely to them in text, letter, and punctuation. It may therefore be relied upon as a true copy. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WE THE UNDERSIGNED DELEGATES OF THE STATES AFFIXED TO OUR NAMES, SEND GREETING.-Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the 15th day of November in the Year of our Lord 1777, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain 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, in the words following, viz. "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, NORTHCAROLINA, SOUTH-CAROLINA, AND GEORGIA. ARTICLE I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.” ARTICLE II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the united states, in congress assembled. ARTICLE III. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each 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. ARTICLE IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from Justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall 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 restriction shall not extend so far as 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 imposition, duties or restriction shall be laid by any state, on the property of the united states, or either of them. If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other hign misdemeanor in any state, shall flee from Justice, and be found in any of 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 proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other state. ARTICLE V. For the more convenient management of the general interest 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 power reserved to each state, to recal 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; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the united states, for which he, or another for his benefit receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind. Each state shall maintain its own delegates in any 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 from arrests and imprison ments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace. ARTICLE VI. No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility. No two or more states shall enter into any treaty, confederation or alliance whatever between them, without the consent of the united states in congress assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the same is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue. No state shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the united states in congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress, to the courts of France and Spain. No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any state, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the united states in congress assembled, for the defence of such state, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any state, in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgment of the united states, in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such state; but every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide and have constantly ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage. No state shall engage in any war without the consent of the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the united states in congress assembled can be consulted: nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the united states in congress assembled shall determine otherwise. ARTICLE VII. When land-forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively by whom such |