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Joint Resolution adopting the Amendments of the Constitution of the United States Abolishing Slavery. 1865 134 (1865.4)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0241 and id is 1 raw text is: 184 NUMBER IX. Joint Resolution adopting the Amendments of the Constitution of the United States; Abolishing Slavery. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ten- nessee, That the Amendments of the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the Congress of the United States, on the first day of February, 1865, in the words and figures following, to wit: Resolved by the Senate and -House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both Houses 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 the Legislatures of three-fourths of said States, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution, namely: ARTICLE VIII. SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servi- tude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their juris- diction. SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this Article by appropriate legislation. Approved February 1, 1865. A. LINCOLN. Be and the same is hereby ratified as a part of the Constitution of the United States of America. WILLIAM HEISKELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SAMUEL R. RODGERS, Speaker of the Senate. Adopted April 5, 1865. NUMBER X. A Joint Resolution tendering the thanks of the General Assembly of State of Tennessee to Gen. Thomas. WHEREAS, The Major General commanding the Department of the Cumberland has directed Brevet

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