into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine States.

ART. XII.--All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts

contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling

of the United States, in pursuance of the present Confederation, shall

be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for

payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the public

faith are hereby solemnly pledged.

ART. XIII.--Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United

States, in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this

Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this