The first Federal Congress met at New York from March 4–September 29, 1789. It established procedures for dealing with the President, passed laws establishing the executive departments (State, War, Treasury) and the federal judiciary, and set the tariff on imports, which supplied most of the revenue of the federal government. This copy bears George Washington’s signature on the title page and is open to the proposed amendments that would form the Bill of Rights. Articles three through twelve were ratified by three-fourths of the states.