Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-30
DRY AMENDMENT NOW A PART
or THE 4. s. CONSTITUTION,
BY PROCLAMATION
FRIENDS Or PtBBlEFORD WEEP
After One Year the Manufactures
Sale or Transportation OF Liquor
WIN Be Prohibited


prohibition amendment to the fed
erai constitution, Issued yesterday at
Washington by Acting Secretary OF
state Polk. reads as follows;
"To all TO whom these presents
shall como--Greeting:
Know ye, that the congress OF
tho United States at the second ses-
sion. 65th congress begun at Wash
tngton ON the Sd day Of December,
tn the year 1917. passed a resolution
In the words aud figures following.
to-wit:
Joint resolution, proposing an
amendment 10 the constitution OF
the United States;
Resolved by the senate and house
of representatives OF the United
States OF America in congress as
sembled ttwo-thirds OF each house
concurring therein), that the follow
ing amendment to tho constitution
be and hereby is proposed to- the
states to become valid as n part OF
the constitution when ratified by the
legislatures OF the several states us
provided by the constitution.
Section. |, After one year from
the ratification of this article the,
manufacture. sale or transportation.
of Intoxicating liquors within. the
importation thereof into, or the ex,
portationl thereof from the United
States and all territory subject to
the Jurisdiction thereof for beyer-
age purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 9. The congress and the
several states shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by APP
propriate legislation.
Section, 3, This. article shall be,
imperative unless II shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the
constitution by the legislatures OF
tho several states, as provided In
the constitution, within seven years
from the date of the submission
hereof to the states by the congress.
'And further that It appears from
Official documents on file In this de-
partment that the amendment to the
constitution OF the United States
proposed as aforesaid, has been rati-
fled by the legislatures OF the states
of Alabama Arizona, California, Col
orado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota.
Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, North Carolina. North
Dakota, Ohio, oklahoma, Oregon.
South Dakota, South Carolina, Texas
Utah, Virginia, Washington. West
Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming,
and further. that the states
whose legislatures have so ratified
the said proposed amendment, con-
stltute three-fourth of the whole
number Of states in the United States
"Now, therefore, be It known that
j, Frank l.. Polk, acting secretary OF
state of the United States, by virtue
and in pursuance of Section EOS OF
the revised status OF the United
States, do hereby certify that the
amendment aforesaid has become
valid to all intents and purposes as
a part of the constitution of the
United States.
''In testimony whereof, have
hereto set my hand and caused the
seal OF the department of state to be
affixed.
Done in the City of Washington,
this 29th day of January, In the year
of our Lord, one thousand, nine hun
,ilred and nineteen.
FRANK L. POLK,
Acting Secretary of State"