Joint resolution proposing an amendment of the Constitution of the United States ... Article 15. The basis of suffrage in the United States shall be that of citizenship ... but each state shall determine by law the age of the citizen and the time of residence required ... and also shall make all laws concerning the time, places, and manner of holding elections
Publisher: Gov't Printing Office
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Resolutions; Legislative Resolutions; Constitutional amendments; Representative government and representation; Suffrage; History; Elections; United States. Congress. Senate
Other titles: S. R. 1
Notes: Caption title.

With added docket title on verso.

"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union according to the number of male citizens of the age of twenty-one years having in each State the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature. The actual enumeration of such citizens shall be made by the census of the United States."

"December 4, 1865. Mr. Sumner asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to bring in the following resolution; which was read, passed to a second reading, and ordered to be printed."