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Here we see the "usuaI respective pro- portions Tn the general charge and expendi. tureo referred to in the cession of Virginia as the ratio of benefits to be derived by tho several States from the ceded lands.

 Now, it was possible under the articles of confederation to pay to each State in monsy its due proportion of the proceeds of land sales, but it would have been useless to do so, because they would have had to pay it back again in another shape. By their go- ing into the "common Treasury" each State would receive the same ratio of bene- it by diminution of the quota to be raised by her; and that such was understood by all parties to be the mode, and the oniy mode, in which the common benefit was to be real. lzed, there IS abundant evidence. Inde- pendent of variety of declarations, both by the States and Congress, the single fact that all rules made or proposed to be made under the old confederation, were for tho benefit of the 'common Treasury and not oi the several State Treasllries, IS conclu- sive of the understanding of the parties at the time.

 But even the possibility of making dis tribution of the common benefits of the land sales according to the rule laid down in the acts of cession in any other mode than by paying the proceeds into the common Trea- snry, was taken away by the adoption of the Constitution. This instrument abolish- ed the quota system of the confederation, and for the supply of the common Treasu- ", vested in Congress, without the aid or interference of the State Legislature, the power

 "To lay and collect taxes, duties, im- posts and excises, to pay the debts and pro- vide for the common defence and general welfare ofthe United States; but all duties, imposts and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States

 Under this system, itis obviously inpos- sible to ascertain what proportion of the revenue is paid by the citizens of each or any State, tho duties levied On merchandise