2 August 1788
Johnston, Samuel (1733-1816)
Manuscript document signed
Title: [Tariff resolution of North Carolina Constitutional Convention]
Signed as president of the convention, countersigned by John Hunt as secretary. States that the North Carolina Convention decided to neither ratify nor reject the new Constitution, and resolved to impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if tariffs were imposed on North Carolina. At a second convention on 21 November 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution.
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