Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-08
The Fifteenth A mn n Il IN mt.

We give below the official PRONUNCIATION
of the ratification of the 18th Amendment,
and the message Of President Grant accom-
panyins the same:
PROCLAMATION
To all to whom these presents may come greet
ing:
Know ye, that the Congress Of the United
States, on or about the 9th day of Febru-
airy, i'll the year 1869, passed a resolution
i'll the words and figures following, to wit:
RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
Resolrcd, BY the Senate and House of Rep
rcscntatives OF the United States of America
in Congress assembled, two thirds of both
houses concurring That the following articles
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 val
id as part of the Constitution, namely:
ART. 49, SEC. |. The rights of citizens Of
the United States to vote shall not be dcLiel
or abridged by the United States or any State,
on account of race, color, or any previous con
dition of serv!tuae.
SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to en-
Gorce this article by appropriate legislation.
And further, that it appears from official
documents on file in this department. that
the amendment to the Consultation of the
United States, proposed as aforesaid, has
been ratified by the Legislatures of the
States of Nerth Carolina, West Virginia,
Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisi.
ana, Mich gan. South Carolina, Pennsylva-
MIA, Arkansas, Connecticut, florida, Iowa,
Illinois. Indiana. New York New lamp
SHIRE Nevada, Vermont, Missouri, Virginia,
Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Minnesota,
Ohio, Rhode Island, Nebraska and Texas,
in all twenty-nine States; and fur her, that
States whose Legis latures have so ratified
SAID proposed amendment constitute three
fourihs Of the whole number of States in
the United States; and further, that it ap-
pears from an official document on file in
this department, that the Legislature of the
State of New York has since passed reso-
luton claiming to withdraw said ra.if cation
to said amendment, which had been made
by the Legislature of that State and of
which official notice had been filed in this
department; and further, that it appears
from AN official document on file in this de-
partment, that the Legislature of Georgia
has, by resolution ratified said proposed
amendment;
Now, therefore, be it known, that /, Ham,
ilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United
States, by virtue and in pursuance of the
second section of an act of Congress, ap-
proved the 10Th day of April, in the year
1918, entitled al act to provide for the pub
LEGATION of laws of the United States, and
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the amendment aforesaid has become valid
to all intents and purposes as part of the
Constitution OF the United States.
In testimony whereof have hereun.o set
my hand and caused the seal Of the Depart
ment of State to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 30th
day of March, in the year of our Lord 1870,
and of the Independence Of the United
States the ninety-four,h.
(Signed) HAMILTON FISH.