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ment.

65 Stat. 710,

TWENTY-SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION

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General Services Administration that the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed as aforesaid has been ratified by the Legislatures of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska. New Hampshire, New Jereey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. And, further that the States whose Legislatures have so ratified the said proposed Amendment constitute the requisite three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States. Now, therefore, be it known that I, Robert L. Kunzig, Administrator of General Services, by virtue and in pursuance of Section 106b, Title 1 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. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the General Services Administration to be affixed. I N TESTIMONY WHEREOF,

at the City of Washington this 5th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one. DONE

[SEAL]

ROBERT L,

KUNZIG.

The foregoing was signed in our presence on this 5th day of July, 1971. RICHARD NIXON

Paul S. Larimer Joseph W. Loyd, J r. Julianne Jones

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