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Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 1865-1866 597 (1865)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0640 and id is 1 raw text is: JOINT RESOLUTION'S OF THE SESSION OF 1865-6. JOINT RESOLUTIONS Of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Whereas, the Congress of the United States, on the 1st day of February, 1S65, adopted a joint resolution submitting to the several States a proposition to amend the constitution of the United States, as follows : Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each house 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 to all intents and purposes. Article XIII, section 1st. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place sub- ject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation ; and the said forego- ing proposed amendment having beein laid before this General As- sembly, by the Provisional Governor of this State, for consideration, and action; Now therefore- SECTION 1. Pe it resolced by the Senate and louse of Representa- tires of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the foregoing amendment to the constitution of the United States, be,

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