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 PHILANDER C. KNOX Sncarraar or Srran or um Uurrnn Snrss or Axmuoa. To all to Whom these Presents may come, Greeting: !•¤nwy», ms. _ Know Ye that the Congress of the United States at the first Sasxpn, snxty-iirst Cion ess,  the year one thousand nine hundred and nme, passed a Resoiution in 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 Re rsentatives of the United “""'“’ *""* States qt ams;-ies in Congress assembled l)two—thirds sr each 11s¤ss¤·"i‘“""°°'““’ concurring therein), That the followinilarticle is proposed as an $°¤Yi°s?=n••. amendment to the _Constitution of the nited States, which, when ratified by the §Bl8t\I.!'G of three-fourths of the several States, shall be valid to intents and purposm as a part of the Constitution: ‘A1z·ncr.n XVI. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect "'°°""“· taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without rgard to any census or mE3rfi:ir•tIlimt.hat' E pearsfm ofii `ald Els ’“"',.°“’*“.F*, er,_ 1ta m ci ocumentson inthis Department that the Aiiiendment to the Constitution of the United md L States proposed as aforesaid has been ratified by the Legislatures of the States of Alabama, Kentucky South Carolina, Illinois, Mississip ‘, Oklahoma, Maryland, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Idaho, Oregon, Wasxiimgton, Califorma Montana Indiana, Nevada _North Carolina, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, North Dakota, l|ieh¥an, Iowa Missouri, Maine, Tennessee, Arkansas, Wisconsin, New ork South Dakota Arizona, Minnesota, Louisiana, Delaware, and Wyoming, in ali thirt -snx. Arid, further, that the States whose Legislatures have so ratified °°°""°°‘ the said prgpoeed Amendment constitute three fourths of the whole number of tates in the United States. _ » _ . · And, further, that it appears from ohicial documents on file iii this Department that the Legislatures of New Jersey and New Mexico have passed Resolutions ratifying the  proposed Amendment. Now therefore be it known that I, Philander C. Knox, Secretary ,,§f'§,“;§‘, ,,‘}‘c§ 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 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 Department of State to be ailixed. Done at the city of Washington this twenty-fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand mne_hundred and [san.,] thirteen, and of the Iprcgipendenqe of the United States of America the one hun and thirty-seventh. PBILANDIR C Knox 1786