Articles of Confederation
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proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress, and lodged
among the Acts of Congress for the security of the parties concerned:
provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take
an oath to be administered by one of the judges of the supreme or superior court of the State, where the cause shall be tried, ‘‘well and truly to
hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his
judgment, without favor, affection or hope of reward’’: provided also
that no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United
States.
All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under
different grants of two or more States, whose jurisdictions as they may
respect such lands, and the States which passed such grants are adjusted,
the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have
originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined as near as may be in the same manner as is before prescribed
for deciding disputes respecting territorial jurisdiction between different
States.
The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and
exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin
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