The Washington times., 1933-12-06
PROCLAMATION
. NOTES END Of
DRY ERA

Acting Secretary of State Will
Ham Phillips last evening pro-
claimed the official death of pro-
hibition in brief announcement
that the Twenty-first Amendment
had been ratified formally by 36
States.
The proclamation follows:
william Phillips, Acting Sec
retary of State of the United
States of America.
"To all whom these presents
shall come. greeting:
"KnOw We, that the Congress
Of the United States, at the Sec
Ond session, Seventy-secOnd Con-
gresS, begun and held at the
city of Washington on Monday,
the fifth day of December, in
the year one thousand nine hun
dred and thirty-twO, passed a
joint resolution in the words
and figures as follows: To wit:
"Joint resolution, proposing
an amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in
Congress assembled (twO-thirds
of each House cOncurring
therein) =, that the following ar
ticle is hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, which
shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as part of the COnSti-
tuition when ratified by cOnven-
tion in three-fOurth of the sew
eral States:
"Article -
"Section /. The Eighteenth
article of amendment to the
Constitution of the United
States is hereby repealed.
"SectiOn 2. The transportation
or importation into any State,
territory, or possession of the
United States for delivery or
use therein of intoxicating liq-
uOrs, in violation of the laws
thereof, is hereby prohibited.
"'SectiOn 3. This article
shall be imperative unless it
shall have been ratified as an
amendment to the Constitution
by conventions in the several
States, as provided in the
Constitution, within seven years
from the date of the sub
mission hereof to the States
by the Congress-
"And, further, that it ap-
pears from official notices re-
ceived at the Department of
State that the amendment to
the Constitution of the United
States proposed as aforesaid
has been ratified by conven-
tions in the States of Ala
'bama, Arizona, Arkansas, Cali
fOrnia, Colorado. Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Him
Ois, Indiana, Iowa. Kentucky,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Michi-
gan, Minnesota. Missouri, Ne
vada, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New Mexico. New York,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas,
Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wash
ington, West Virginia, Wis
cOnsin, and Wyoming.
"And, further, that the States
wherein conventions have so
ratified the said proposed amend
ment, constitute the requisite
three-fourths of the whole num-
Der of States in the United
States.
''NOw, therefore, be it known
that I, William Phillips, Acting
Secretary of State of the United
States, by virtue and in pur-
suance of Section 16O, Title 5,
of the United States Code, do
hereby certify that the amend
ment aforesaid has become valid
to all intents and purposes as a
part of the Constitution of the
United States.
"In testimony whereof, I have
hereuntO set my hand and
caused the seal of the Depart
ment of State to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washing
ton this fifth day of December,
in the year of Our Lord, one
thousand nine hundred and
thirty-three."