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ced . Joint Resolution into the Senate proposing
ssndinents to the Constitution Of the United States
with a.iew Of restoring peacs and preserving the
Union His proposition was read ! FIRST and second
time, and referred to the Committee Of Thirtsep.
It is ~ follows Z: ~ sgsa i, ~ at.6- r.
b; .es,y IA JOINT RESOLUTION. 81 aat>ee, q
Resolred BY the Senate and House Of Reprssents-
tivesef the United States Of america in Congress
assembled (tsoo-thirds Of both Houses eoncurring)
That the following articles be and are hereby pro-
posed and submitted as amendments to the Consti-
tuition Of the United States, which shall be valid to
al intents and purposes part Of said Constitution
when ratified BY Conventions Of threefourths Of the
several States.
-.s ~ ARTICLE XIII.
Congress shall make nd laws in respect to slavery
or servitude in any Territory Of the United States;
and the status Of each Territory in respect to serv
tude, MS the same now exists by law, shall remain
unchanged until the Territory, with such bounda-
res AZ Congress may prescribe, shall have popua.
ton Of fifty thousand white inhabitants, when the
white male citizens thereof over the age Of twenty
one years may proceed To forhI constitution and
government for themselves and exercise oil the
rights of selfgovernment consistent with the Con-
st1tution of tho United States; and when such new
State shall contain the requisite population Tor
member of Congress- according to the then Federal
ratio of representation it shall be admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the original States,
with or without slavery, as the constitution Of such
new State shall provide at the time Of admission;
and in the time such new State shall be enti-
tied to delegate in the Senate to be chosen by
the Legislature, and one delegate in the House Of
Representatives, to be chosen by the people having
the qualifications requisite for electors Of the most
numerous branch Of the Legislature; and said dele
gates shall have all the rights and privileges Of Sem
ators and Representatives, respectively, except that
of voting
Sec 2. No more territory shall be acquired by
the United States except by treaty or by the con-
current vote of two thirds Of each House Of Con-
gress, and when acquired the status thereof in
respect to scrvitude it existed at the time OF &C
question: shall remain unchanged until it shall con-
tain the population aforesaid for the formation Of
new States when it shall be subjected to the terms,
conditions and privileges herein provided for the
existing Territories.
Sec. 5. The area of al! new States shall be as
nearly uniform IN size may be practicable, having
due regard to convenient boundaries and natural
pacities and shall not be less than sixty nor more
than eighty thousand square miles except in case Of
islands which may contain less than that amount.
Sec. L. The second and third clauses of the second
section Of the fourth article of the Constitution
which provides for delivering up fngitives from JUS
tice and ngitives from service or labor, shall have
force in the Territories and new States in the
States of the CniOn and the said clause in respect
TO fugves from Justice shall be construed to include
all crimes committed within and against the laws of
the State from which the fugitive fed whether the
acts charged be criminal or not in the State where
the fugitive was found
Sec 5. The second section Of the third article Of
the Constitution, in respect to the judicial power OF
the United States shall be deemed applicable to the
Territories and new States well to the States of
| the Union.
| ARTICLE XIV.
! Sec l. The elective franchise and the right to
! hold Office whether Federal, State. Territorial or
municipal, shall not be exercised by persons Of the
! African race, in whole or in part.
| Sec 9 The United States shall have power to &C.
qure, from time to time districts Of country in AZ
RIGA and South America Cor the colonization, at the
expense of the Federal Treasury, of such free ne
groes and mu!attoes as the several States may wish
| to have removed from their limits, and from the
District Of Columbia and such other places may
! be under the jurisdiction Of Congress.
! Sec. 3. Congress shall have no power to abolish
slavery in the places under its exclusive jurisdiction
and situate within the limits of States that permit
|! the holding Of slaves.
! Sec. 4. Congress shall have power to abolish
! slavery within the District of Columbia SO long
it exists in the adjoining States of Virginia and
Maryland, or either nor without the consent Of in
habitants nor without just compensation first made
to snch owners of slaves do consent to such
hibit officers Of the Federal Government members
Of Congress- whose duties require them to be in said
District from bringing with them their slaves and
holding them as such during the time their duties
| may require them to remain there, and afterwards
taking them from the District
SEC. s. Congress shall have no power to prohibit
or hinder the transportation of slaves from State
to another, or to Territory in which slaves per-
mitted by law to be held, whether such transpor:a-
ton he by land nav:gable rivers, or oy but the
African slave trade shall he forever suppressed and
it shall be the duty Of Congress to make such laws
rs shall he necessary and effectua to prevent the
migration or importation of slaves or persons owing
service OF labor, into the United State: from any
foreign country place. or jurisdiction whatsoever.
SEC. g. In addition to the provisions Of the third
paragraph of tho second section Of the fourth article
Of the Constitution Congress shall have power to
provide by law and it shall be its duty so to provide,
that the United States shall pay to the owner who
shall apply for it the full value of his fugitive slave
in all cases VIXEN the marshal or other officer whose
duty it was to arrest said fugitive prev ented
from doing by violence or intimidation. or when,
after arrest, said fugitive rescued by force and
the owner thereby prevented and obstructed in the
pursuit of his remedy for the recovery of his fugi
live slave under the said clause Of the Constitution
and the laws made in pursuance thereof. And in
all such when the United States shall pay fol
xuch flgtives they shall have the right in their
name to sue the county in which said violence in
timidaton, or rescue copmitted, and to recover
from it, with interest and damages the amount pait
BY them for said fugitive slave. And the said coun
ty, after it has paid said amounts to the United
States, may, for its indemnity sue and recover frcn
the wrong doers or fescuers by whom the owner
was prevented from the recovery Of his fugitive siav
IN like mannef as the owner himself might hss,
!, sued and recovered ~
Sec. Z. No future amendment Of the Constitution
shall affect this and the preceding article, nor tn
third paragraph of the second section Of the frs
article of the Constitution the third paragraph
Of the second section of the fourth article Of sail
i Constitution and no amendment shall lie made L
the Constitution which will authorize or give t
Congress any power to abolish or interfere will
slavery III any Of the States by whose laws it is
, may he allowed or sanctioned. .F7't. -f'. 81