Section 2. Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Representatives of the Freemen of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That the aforesaid agreement, and every article, clause, matter and thing, therein contained, shall be, and the same is hereby, fully and amply ratified and confirmed, and shall be, and ever hereafter remain, in force, agreeably to the true tenor and extent thereof.