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Resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States. 1861 49 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0235 and id is 1 raw text is: 49 by J. C. Vaughn, in his hands, or for which he may be li:.ble to the Comptroller, or other proper officer, the dam- ages which he has incurred for his fgilure in this behalf shall be released, and he shall also be entitled to his com- mission as if he had made no such default. Provided, said revcrue be raid by the 1t of Jzne, 1861. Resolved Jurther, That James Jones, late Sheriff of Greene county, bc released from the payment of six hun- dred and forty-six dollars and sixty cents, that being the Greene county. amount of damages, at 12 per cent., recovered against. him at June Term, 1860, of the Circuit Court of Greene county, for failing to pay over, at the time required by law, the State revenue for the year 1858. W. C. WHITTHORNE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. TAZ. W. NEWMAN, Speaker of the Senate. Adopted January 21, 1861. NUMBER 13. Resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United Statas. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ten- ncssce, That a Convention of delegates from all the slave- holding States should assemble at Nashville, Tennessee, or such other place as a majority of the States co-operat- ing may designate, on the fourth day of February, 1861, to digest and dcfine a basis upon 'which, if possible, the Fed- eral Union and the Constitutional rights of the slave States may be perpetuated and preserved. Resolved, That the General Assembly of the State of Tennescee appoint a number of delegates to said Conven- tion,. of our ablest and wisest men, equal to our whole del- egation in Congress; and that the Governor of Tenneseee. immediately furnish copies of these resolutions to the Gov- ernors of the slaveholding States, and urge the participa- tion of such States in said Convention. Resolved, That in the opinion of this General Assembly, such plan of adjustment shall embrace the following propo- sitions as amendments to the Constitution of the United States. 1. A declaratbry amendment that African slaves as held under the institutions of the slaveholding States, shall be recognized as property, and entitled to the status of 4

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