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 APPENDIX. 1181 And whereas, due inquiry haying been made and satisfactory answers having of France, Prusbgon received that snmlar provisions are m force m France Prussia and the **3 and W5 °¥h¤¤’ u. } 7 other btates of the North German Union and Italy; §**“<E of W6 Now therefore, be it known that I Uurssms S. GRA}: P s`d t f' h on mmm United’States of America, do hereby proclaim the same aecdiidingyi. an 0 t E Umm Md1wof Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of February, in the year [L. s.] of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of the Independence of the United States of America the uinetv·fourth. . U. s. GRA. By the President: NT HAM11.roN Frsn, Secretary q" State. N0. 10. HAMILTON FISH, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. March 80, 1870. Ta all to whom these presents may come, greeting : Kxow ye, that the Congress of the United States, on or about the twenty· P¤b· R¢¤· Nvseventh day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty- 1* nine, passed a resolution in the words and figures following, to wit.: V°I‘ xv' P` M6' “ A Resolution proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by Ike Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled (two thirds of both Houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely: ARUGLE XV. Sscrxox 1. The right of citizens of the United States iq vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition ofservitude. SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation? And, further, that it_ appears from official documents on file in this De- Fifteenth partment that the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, pro- nméndmept Y9 posed as aforesaid. has been ratified by the legislatures of the States of North ;g€,,€;%“;"t?£§; Carolina, \Vest Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michn tymina $5;,,,68. gan, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut,} Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, New Hampshire, Nevada, Vermont, Virginia, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Nebraska, and Texas, in all twenty-nine States. _ _ And, further, that the States whose legislatures have so ratified the said proppsed amendment constitute three fourths of the whole number of States in the nited States. _ _ _ And further, that it appears from an official document pn file m this Depart ·New York ment that the legislature of the State of New York has since passed resolutions withdraws. claiming to withdraw the said ratification of the sand amendment which had been made by the legislature of that State, and of wh1ch official not1ce’had been Sled in this Department. _ _ _ _ _ And, further, that it appears from an official docnment on file in this Depart- H Georgia ranmént that the legislature of Georgia has by resolution ratxiied the stud proposed °$· amendment: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Hnmmou Fisn, Secretany of State of deggrpggdégivpit the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of the second section of the act 1818, chl 80. {2. Of Congress approved the twentieth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred VOL M p_·_m,_ and eighteen, entitled "An act to prov1de for the publication of the laws of the