bers of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of

such state.

age in

Section 3. No person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or elector of president and vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But congress may, by a vote of twothirds of each house, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

resentatives of the State of Maine in Legislature assembled, as follows, viz:

Section 1. That the said proposed amendment be and the same is hereby ratified on behalf of the State of Maine. Section 2. This act shall take effect on its approval by the governor.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 17 1867. This bill having had three several readings, passed to be enacted.

LEWIS BARKER Speaker.

In SENATE, January 19 1867.

This bill having had two several readings, passed to be enacted.

N. A. BURPEE President.
January 19 1867.

Approved.

J. L. CHAMBERLAIN Governor.

State of Maine

Office of Secretary of State.

I, Ephraim Flint, Secretary of State of the State of Maine, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of an Act passed by the Forty-sixth Legislature of this State ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, passed and approved January 19, A. D. 1867. as taken from the original deposited in this office.

[SEAL.]

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the State, at Augusta, this Twenty-first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven and of the Independence of the United States, the ninetyfirst

EPHRAIM FLINT
Secretary of State.

Assembly Joint Resolution.

Whereas, The Congress of the United States has adopted by a two thirds vote the subjoined:

"Be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives "of the United States of America 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 three fourths of said Legislatures "shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely:

"Article Fourteenth.

"Section One. All persons born or naturalized in the United “States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens "of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge "the privileges or immunities of Citizens of the United "States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life lib"erty or property without due process of law, nor deny to "any person within its jurisdiction, the equal protection of "the laws.

"Section Two. Representatives shall be apportioned among "the several states according to their respective numbers,

counting the whole number of persons in each state, exclud"ing Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any "election for the choice of Electors for President and Vice

"President of the United States, Representatives in Con

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gress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a state, or the "members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the "male inhabitants of such state, being twenty one years of “age, and being citizens of the United States, or in any way "abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other "crime, the basis of representation therein, shall be reduced "in the proportion which the number of such male citizens "shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty one "years of age in such state.

"Section Three. No person shall be a Senator or Repre"sentative in Congress or Elector of President or Vice Pres"ident, or hold any office civil or military, under the United "States or under any State, who having previously taken an "oath as a Member of Congress, or as an officer of the "United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or "as an Executive or Judicial Officer of any state, to sup"port the Constitution of the United States, shall have en"gaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given "aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress "may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such "disability.

"Section Four. The validity of the Public Debt of the United "States, authorized by law including debts incurred for pay"ment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing "insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But "neither the United States, nor any state shall assume or pay "any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or "rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the "loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obli"gations or claims shall be held illegal and void.

"Section Five. Congress shall have power to enforce by ap

"propriate legislation, the provisions of this article." Now therefore,

Be it Resolved; conjointly, by the Senate and Assembly of "the state of Nevada, that the Legislature of the state of "Nevada does hereby ratify and confirm the amendment to "the Constitution of the United States of America, as pro"posed to be made by Article Fourteen Sections one, two, "three, four and five of Constitutional Amendments.

Assembly Joint Resolution No 2 Relating to Constitutional Amendments.

Passed the Assembly January 11th 1867. Ayes 34 Nay 4.

A. WHITFORD.

Clerk of the Assembly.

Passed the Senate January 22d 1867. Ayes 12, Nays 3.

B. C. BROWN.

State of Nevada

Secretary of the Senate.

Secretary's Office

SS.,

ICN Noteware, Secretary of State of the State of Nevada, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the original Joint Resolution, passed by the Legislature of said state, ratifying Article XIV, a proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; submitted by Congress on the 16th day of June A D 1866, to the Legislatures of the several States, Which original Joint Resolution is now on file in my office.