The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01
PROCLAIMS US
DRY JAN.16,1920
Ratification of the Prohibition
Amendment to Federal Con-
stitution Announced.
SIGNED BY SECRETARY POLK
Proclamation Prohibits Manufacture,
Sale or Transportation of In
toxicating Liquors in the
United States.

Washington, Jan. 30.-Ratification
of the prohibition amendment to the
federal Constitution effective January
16, 1920, was announced in procla-
nation signed by Acting Secretary of
State Polk at the state department.
Text of Proclamation.
The proclamation follows:
Frank L. Polk, acting secretary of
state of the United States of America;
ITO all whom these presents shall
come, greetings
Know ye that the congress of the
United States at the second session,
Fifty-fifth congress, begun at Washing
ton on the third day of December in
the year one thousand nine hundred
and seventeen, passed a resolution in
the words and the figures following,
to wit: iS atssa# n
Joint resolution, proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States.
"Resalyed by the senate and house
of Representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled (two thirds of each house con-
curing therein) that the following
amendment to the Constitution be, and
hereby is, proposed to the states, to
become valid as il part of the Consti-
tuition when ratified by the legislatures
of the several states as provided by
the Constitution
Power to Enforce Law.
s'. ssSsetipnS1 After one year from
the ratification of this article the
paapll kEansro citation
OF intoxicating liquor within, the i'm
portatfon thereof into, or the exporta-
ton thereof. from the United States
and all territories subject to the jul
risdiction thereof for beverage pur--
poses is hereby prohibited.
"'Sec 2. The congress of the
several states shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by appro-
pirate legislation.
"'Sec 3. This article shall be
imperative ulllSfoS IL Shdll nave DcSH
ratified as an amendment to the Con-
stitution by the legislatures of the
several states, as provided in the Con
stitution, within seven years from the
date of the submission thereof to the
states by the congress-.
States That Ratified Amendment.
"And further, that it appears from
official documents on file in this de-
partment that the amendment to the
Constitution of the United States pro-
posed as aforesaid has been ratified
by legislatures of the states of Alabama,
Arizona, California, Colorado, Della
ware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mich
igan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Car
Dina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Oregon. South Dakota, South Caro-
lima, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washing
ton, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wy
oming.
"And further, that the states whose
legislatures have so ratified the pro-
posed amendment constitute three
fourths of the whole number of states
in the United States.
"Now, therefore, be it known that 1,
Frank L. Polk, acting secretary of
state of the United States, by virtue
and in pursuance of section 205 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States,
do hereby certify that the amendment
aforesaid has become valid to all in
tents and purposes as part of the
Constitution of the United States.
SIN testimony whereof l have here
unto set my hand and caused a seal
of the department of state to be af-
fixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
twenty-ninth day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and nineteen.
FRANK L. POLK,
hoE;nor Cnoratoru Of State