Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-08-12

THESE presents Win my nanu, have
caused the seal of the United States to
be hereunto affixed
Done at the City Of Washington this
9th day of July, il the year o. our
Lord 1868, and of the independence of
the United States of America the nine
ty-third. ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President.
WIN. II. SEWARD, Sec'y of State.
OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION OF THE ADOPTION.
OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
William H. Seward, Secretary of
State of the United States Of America.
To all to whom these presents may
come greeting.
WHEREAS, By an act of Congress
passed on the 28th day of April, 1918,
entitled "An act to provide for the
publication of the laws of the United
States, and for other purposes" it is de-
elared that whenever official notice
shall have been received at the De-
partment of State that any amendment
which heretofore has been, and here
after may be, proposed TO the Constitu-
ton of the United States, has been
adopted, according TO the provisions of
~ SOI6hALAAAOuf y DhdAA DC IL dull
of the said Secretary of State to cause
the said amendment to be published
forthwith in the newspapers authorized
no promulgate the laws, with his GER
~tificaUe, specifying the States by which
the said amendment has been adopted,
and that the same has become valid, to
sll intents and purposes, as a part OF
the Constitution of the United States:
and, whereas, the Congress of the
United States, on or about the 10th
day of June, 1866, submitted to the
Legislatures of the several States a
proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton in the following words, to wit:
Joint resolutions proposing an
amendment TO the Constitution of the
United States.
"Bsh resolved, By the Senate snd
House of Representatives of the Unit
ed States of America, in. Congress as
sembled, two. thirds of both Houses
concurring, that the following article
be proposed TO the Legislatures of the
several States as an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States,
which, when ratified by three fourths
of said Legislatures shall be valid and
part of the Constitution, namely:
"ARTIcLE IA, Section l. ALI persons
born or n~turalized in the United
States, and subject 10 the, jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United
States, and the State wherein they re-
side. No State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the privi-
leges or immunities of citizens of the
United Ststes, nor shall any State de-
prive any person of life, liberty or
property, without due process of Law,
nor deny to any person within its juris-
dictlon the equal protection of the
laws.
SEC. 2. Representatives shall be APP
portioned among the several States &C.
cording to their representative num-
bers, counting the whole number of
persons in each State, excluding Indians
not taxed but when the right to o
at any election for the choice OF elec
tors for President and Vice President
Of the United States, Representatives
in Congress-, the executive or judicial
officers of a State, or the members of
the Legislature thereof, is denied 10
any Of the male inhabitants of such
State, being twenty-one years of age,
and citizens OF the United States, or
be ia any way abridged, except for par
~ticipation in rebellion or other crimes,
the basis of representation therein
shall be reduced in the proportion
which the number of such male citi-
zens ihal bear to the whole number of
male citizens twenty -one years of age
in such States.
SEQ 8. No person shall be a Senator
or Representative in Congress, or electOr
Of President and Vice President, or hold
any dice, civil or military, under the
United States, or under any State, who,
having previously taken an oath rs q
member of Congress, or rs an officer of
the United States, or as q member Of any
State Legislature, or as an executive or
Judicial officer of any State, to support
the Constitution of the United States,
shall have engaged in instruction or re-
bellion against tie same, or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof; but Con-
gress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each
House, remove such disability.
SEC, 4. The validity of the public
debt of the United States, authorized by
law including debts incurred for the pay
ment Of pensions and bounties for services
in supp-essing Instruction or rebellion,
shall not be questioned; but neither the
United States nor any State shall assume
or pay any de bt incurred in aid of Insur-
rection or rebe uiOn against the United
States, or any claim for the loss or emsn-
~cipation of any slave; out all such debts,
obligations and clai ms, shall be held ille~
gal and void.
SEC. 5. The Con, gres shall have pow
or to enforce, by apI lropFiate legislation,
the provisions of this article.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Speaker of the House uf Representatives.
LAFAYETCEC q. FOSTER.
"Attest: President ofaleS Senate, pro tenn.
edward MCPHERSON,
'SClerk Of the House Of Representatives.
John W. FORNEY,
Secretary of the Senate"
And, whereas, the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the Congress of the
United States, on ths 2lst day of Ju-
ly, 1868, adopted and transmitted to the
Department Of State q concurrent resolu-
tion, which concurrent resolution is in the
words and figures following, to wit
'In the Senate Of the United States,
July Dist, 1868:
"WHEREAs, The Legislatures of the
States of Connecticut, Tennessee, New
Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia,
Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois,
Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin, Penn
s~ylvsnia, Rhode Island, Michigan, Ne
vada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Nebraska, Maine, low u, Arkansas, Flor
ida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Al
ALBANIA and Louisiana, being three fourths
and more, of the States Of the Union,
have ratified the fourt zenith article Of
amendment to the Con stitutlOn Of the
United States, duly propos ed by two~thirds
OF each House OF the Thirty-ninth Con
snress; therefore:
Rssotrsd, By the Senate, the House OF
Representa- ives cOncurrh1g, Thst said
fourteenth article is hereby declared 20 be
part Of the Constitution of the United
States, and it shall be promulga ted as
such by the Secretary of State.
ATTEST: GEORGE G, GORHAM,
Secretary of the Senate, j