The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-17
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OFFICIAL.
Lqws Passed by the Second Session Of
the Fortieth Congress.
TPUBL1c-No. 49,

w LILLIAN H. OEWARD, OSCECSalg Y
State of the United States, to all t.
whom these presents may come
greeting:
Whereas, by an act of Congress
passed on the twentieth of April, ON
thousand eight hundred and eighteen
entitled. An act to provide for thu
publication of the laws of the United
States, and for other purposes" it il
declared that whenever official motto,
shall have been received at the De
partment of State that any amend
ment which heretofore has been anC
hereafter may be proposed to the
Constitution of the United States hal
been adopted according to the pro
visions of the Constitution, it shall
be the duty of the said Secretary
oil State forthwith to cause the SAID
amendment to be published In the
newspapers authorized to prOmulgate
the laws, with his certificate, specify
ing the States by which the same may
have been adopted, and that the same
has become valid to all intents and
purposes as part OF the Constitution
of the United States.
And whereas the Congress of the
United States, on or about the six
- teenth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six, submit
ted to the legislatures of the several
States a proposed amendment to the
Constitution in the following words,
to-wit:
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an
amendment to the Constitution OF
the United States.
Be it resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America In Congress
assembled 1.-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 as
Part of the Constitution, namely:
ARTICLE XIV.
SECTION /. Ali persons born or
naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the Jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and OF
the State wherein they reside. No
State shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges OF
immunities of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any State deprive
any person Of life. liberty, or property,
without due process of law, nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws.
Sec. 2. Representatives shall be ap-
portioned among the several States
according to their respective numbers,
counting the whole number of per-
sons in each State, excluding Indians
not taxed But when the right to
vote at any election for the choice of
electors for President and Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States, Represent
atives 10 Congress, the executive and
judicial officers of a State, or the
members of the legislature thereof, is
denied to any of the male inhabitants
of such State, being twenty one years
Of age, and citizens of the United
States, or In any way abridged, except
FOR participation in rebellion or other
crime, the basis of representation
therein shall be reduced in the pro-
portion which the number of such
male citizens shall bear to the whole
number of male citizens twenty one
years of age in such State.
SEC. 3. No person shall be Sena-
tor or Representative in Congress, or
elector of President and Vice Presi-
dent, or hold any office, civil or mill
tary, under the United States, or I'M
der any State, who, having previously
taken an oath, as a member of Con-
gress, or as an officer of the United
States, or as a member of any State
legislature, or as an executive or Judi
cial officer of any State. to support
the Constitution of the United States,
shall have engaged in instruction or
rebellion against the same, or given
aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
But Congress may, by 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
payment of pensions and bounties for
services in suppressing instruction
or rebellion, shall not be questioned.
But neither the United States nor any
State shall assume or pay any debt or
obligation incurred In aid of insur-
rection or rebellion against the United
States, or any claim for the loss or
emancipation of any slave, but all
such debts, obligations, and claims
shall be illegal and void.
SEC. D. The Congress shall have
power to enforce, by appropriate leg
islation, the provisions of this article.
SCHUYLER CoLFAX,
Speaker Of the House Of Representa-
tiUeS.
LAFAYETTE s. FOSTER,
President of the Senate pro tenn.
Attest: EDw'D MoPHERsoN,
Clerk OF the House of Representa-
tives.
j. W. FoRNEY,
Secretary of the Senate.
And whereas the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Congress OF
the United States, on the twenty first
day of July, one thousand eight
transmitted to the Department oil
State a concurrent resolution, which
concurrent resolution is in the words
and ngures following, to-wit:
els THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, /
July q, 1868.
'Whereas the legislatures of the
States of Connecticut. Tennessee, New
Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, West Vir-
GINA, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana
Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, New York
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is
land, Michigan, Nevada, New Hamp
shire, Massachusetts,, Nebraska,
Maine, Arkansas, Florida, North
Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina
and Louisiana, being three-fourths
and more of the several States of the
Union, have ratified the fourteenth
article of amendment to the Constitu.
ton of the United States, duly pro.
posed by two-thirds of each House OF
the Thirty ninth Congress; therefore
Resolved by the Senate (the House