How we cite our quotes: (Article.Sentence)
Quote #4
All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more States…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. (9.4)
The states were in constant competition with each other to seize the nation's natural resources. They frequently made conflicting claims to unsettled land. (Of course, no one bothered to ask the Native Americans.)
Quote #5
The Committee of the States, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress as the United States in Congress assembled, by the consent of the nine States, shall from time to time think expedient to vest them with. (10.1)
There were no federal agencies under the Articles of Confederation, as there are in today's government. A "Committee of the States" was allowed to carry out some of Congress' authority in much the same way agencies (like the Department of the Interior now do).