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Joint Resolution relative to an amendment to the constitution of the United States. 1868 137 (1868.07)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0679 and id is 1 raw text is: '-h; r JOINT RESOLUTIONS. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to an amendment to the constitution of the United States. Whereas, The thirty-eighth congress of the United States, at its second session, passed the following propo- Preamble. sition to amend the constitution of the United States, by a constitutional majority of two-thirds thereof, in the words following, to-wit : A resolution submitting to the legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the constitution of the United States: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, Rotin (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the lol- lowing 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 pur- poses, as a part of the constitution, namely: ARTICLE XIII. SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the Amendment. the United States, or any place subject to their juris- diction. SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this Powerof con- article by appropriate legislation. areas. Whereas, three-fourths of the legislatures of the

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