When a state has furnished its quota, it has an undoubted right to know how it has been applied, and it is as much the duty of Congress to inform the state of the one, as it is the duty of the state to provide the other.
From "The American Crisis," this outlines the reciprocal duties of states to provide funds and Congress to account for their use.
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