The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-31
TEXT OF PROCLAMATION
VETOING LIQUOR IN
THE UNITED STATES

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lowing is the text of the proclamation
issued by the State Department to
day, proclaiming the ratification of thu
prohibition amendment to the Consti
tution:
"To All to Whom These Presents
Shall Come, Greeting:
'Know We that the Congress of tht
United States, at the second session
Sixty-fifth Congress, begun at Wash
ington on the third day Of December
in the year one thousand nine hundred
and seventeen, passed resolution II
the words and figures following, to-
wit:
"Joint resolution, proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States:
Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representative 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 a part of the Con-
stitution when ratified by the Legisla-
lures of the several States, as pro-
vided by the Constitution:
Importation Is Barred
Section /. After one year from the
ratification of this article the manu-
facture, sale or transportation of in
toxicating liquors within, the importa-
tion thereof into, or the transportation
thereof from the United States, and
all territory subject to the jurisdic-
tion thereof, for beverage purposes is
hereby prohibited.
Sec. 2. The Congress and the several
States shall have concurrent power to
enforce this article by appropriate
Legislation.
Sec. 3. This article shall be inopera-
tive unless it shall have been ratified
as an amendment to the Constitution
by the Legislatures of the several
States, as provided by the Constitu-
tion, within seven years from the date
of tie submission hereof to the States
by the Congress.
States Named as Ratifying
"And, further, that it appears from
official documents on file in this de-
partment that the amendment to the
Constitution of the Unied States, pro-
posed as aforesaid, has been raified
by the legislatures. of the States of
Alabama, Arizona, California, Colora-
do, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missis-
,sippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hamp-
shire, North Carolina, North Dako-
ia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South
Dakota, South Carolina, Texas, Utah,
Virginia, Washington, West Virginia,
Wisconsin and Wyoming.
"And, further, that the States,
whose legislatures haye so ratified
the said proposed amendment, consti-
tute three-fourths of the whole num-
ber of States in the United States.
Part of Constitution
"Now, therefore, be it known that
/, 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 val
id to all intents and purposes as part
of the Constitution of the United
States.
"In testimony whereof, ! have here
unto set my hand and caused the 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.
(Signed) FRANK L. POLK,
Acting Secretary of State.