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 2570 AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, 1933. Effective date of sec- "SEC. 5 . Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th dux of !lOns 1 and 2. October following the ratification of this article. . I!l0pe~t1ve. if not "SEC. 6 . This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been fbtlfied In seven years. • d hC..bhi'I f ratIfied as an amen ment to t e onstItution y t e egIs atures 0 three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission." Stadtes ratidfying pro- And, further, that it appears from official documents on file in the po.oe Amen ment. D fS hhAmd hC..f1 epartment 0 tate t at teen ment to t e ,0nstItutlOn 0 t le Declaration. Umted States proposed as aforesaid has been ratified by the Legisla- tures of the States of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colo- rado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Penn- sylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Ctah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. And? further, that the States whose Legislatures have so ratified the saId proposed Amendment, constitute more than the requisite three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States. C(ortificate of ~dtObP-e Now, therefore, be it known that I, Henry L. Stimson, Secretar." lion 8S part of -, ('(Institution. of State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of Section r.s.c., p.37. 160, Title 5, of the United States Code, 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 affixed. DONE at the CIty of Washington this sixth day of February, m [SEAL] the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three. HENRY L STIMSON