Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-03-30
OFFICIAL,
HAMILTON FISH,

SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES
TO al 10 IctOa tese Presents may come, Greeting
Know ye, that the Congress of the United
states, on or about the twenty-seventh day Of
February, IN the year enc thousand eight hun
dred and siNty-nine, passed a resolution in the
Wtrdj and figures following. to wit
"a RIsoLUTIcS proposing an amendment to tn
Constitution OF the United States
RcS-fred by The Senate and House oof Repre-
se-idsircs Of tke Jsjted States u Aaerica in Com
gTtss assembled, ttwo-thirds OF both houses CON
cuTIing) That the following article be proposed
70 the Legislatures OF the several States as an
ar'eEdment TO the Constitution OF the United
Stats, which, when ratified by three-feurths OF
sand Legislatures, shall be valid as part of the
Constitution, namely:
ARTICLE Nv.
SECTIOS 1. The right of citizens OF the United
States TO vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any State on sccount
OF race, color, OF previous condition of servi-
tude.
SECTION p The Congress shall have power to
enforce this article by appropriate legislation
And further, that it appears from official doc
uments on file in this Department that the
amendment TO the Constitution of the United
States, proposed as aforesaid, has been ratified
by the Legislatures of the States of North
Carolina, West Virginia, Massachusetts,.
Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan,
South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Con
hecucnt, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York,
New Hampshire, Nevada, Vermont, Virginia.
Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Iowa,
Kansas, Minnesota, Rhode Island Nebraska
and Texas, in all twenty-nine States
And further, that the States whose Legisla-
lures have so ratified the said proposed amend
ment constitute three-fourths of the whole num-
Ger OF states in the United States.
anu further, that it appears from an official
uocument on file in this Department, that the
Legislature of the State of New York has since
passed resolutions claiming to withdraw the
said ratification of the said amendment which
had been made by the Legislature of that State.
and of which official notice had been filed I'm
this Department
And further, that it appears from an off cial
document on file in this Department that the
Legislature of Georgia has by resolution rati-
hed the said proposed amendment.
Now therefore, be it known that /, Hamilton
Fish, Secretary of State of the United States,
by virtue and in pursuance Of the second
section of the act of Congress approved
the twentieth day of April, in the year
eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled "An
act to provide for the publication of the
laws of the United States and for other Dur
poses - do hereby certify that the Amendment
a'o. esaid has become valid to all intents and
purposes as part OF the Constitution of the
United States.
In testimony whereof, / have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the Department OF
State to be affixed
Done at the city OF Washington this thirtieth
day of March, in the year of our Lord
u. 81 enc thousand eight hundred and seven
ty, and of the independence of the
United States the ninety-fourth.
ISignedl HANIroS Ftsu