Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states, as indispensably necessary to the restoration of pubiic [sic] credit, and the punctual and honourable discharge of the public debts, to vest in the United States in Congress assembled, a power to levy for the use of the United States, a duty of five per centum ad valorem ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, December session, A.D. 1783.: Whereas the most honorable the Congress of the United States ... did resolve, that one million two hundred thousand dollars be raised by the several states, and applied towards paying the interest due on certificates issued from the loan-office ... Be it therefore enacted ... that the keeper of the continental loan-office in this state ... consolidate all the loan-office certificates ... and certify the value of each ..

Rhode Island.