APPENDIX.
382 4th.
Not
to close Ijy imposts or otherwise the navigation of the rivers
or other navigable waters, which have not required the aid of canals
made by man's labour. 5th. Not to tax before they been subjected 6th.
Not
are exposed for sale products
which have
to national imposts.
to tax
goods or merchandise, which are in transit from one
State to another. 7th.
Not
to
impose duties on the national
officers,
except in their
quality of meml^ers of the State, or as far as their duties
may
not be
incompatil)le with the public service of the nation.
To
8th.
defer
and submit themselves
to the decision of Congress, to
High Federal Court in all disbetween two or more States, when an amicable
the National Executive, and to the
may
putes which
arise
arrangement cannot be arrived at
;
but in no case can a State declare
any reason, they may
or
make war
against another State.
to
designate
the arbiter to whose authority they will submit, they
If,
for
remain bound by the very nature of things to submit
fail
to the decision
of Congress.
To observe
9th.
strict neutrality in
the disputes which
may
arise in
other States. 10th.
Not
to join themselves or alienate themselves to
by separation
nation, nor
to impair the nationality
and
any other territory of
Venezuela. 11th.
To obey and carry out the Constitution and the laws
of the
Union, and the decrees and orders, which the National Executive and the Tribunals and Judges of the Union
may
issue in the exercise of the
powers belonging to them. 12th. In their several constitutions to subscribe to the extradition of
criminals as a political principle. 13th.
from
To keep
political
at a distance
demands
interested in their seclusion 14th.
Not
from the frontier those individuals who,
motives, take refuge in a State, provided that a State
to establish
so that the national Custom-houses 15th.
Not
it.
Custom-houses for the collection of imposts,
may
be the only ones.
to permit in the States of the
which have or might have
Union enrolments
for their object to attack
or levies,
the liberty or
independence, or to disturb the public order of other States, or of any other nation. 16th.
To
leave to each State the free
management
of its
own
natural