[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
[104th Congress]
[House Document 103-342]
[The United States Constitution]
[Pages 90-91]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 

                          AMENDMENT XIII.a


[[Page 91]]
exist within the United States, or any place subject to their 
jurisdiction.


Sec. 224. Prohibition of slavery and involuntary 
servitude.

  Section 1.  Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a 
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, 
shall 


  a The 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States was 
proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 38th Congress, 
on February 1, 1865, and was declared, in a proclamation of the 
Secretary of State, dated the 18th of December 1865, to have been 
ratified by the legislatures of twenty-seven of the thirty-six States. 
The dates of ratification were: Illinois, February 1, 1865; Rhode 
Island, February 2, 1865; Michigan, February 2, 1865; Maryland, February 
3, 1865; New York, February 3, 1865; Pennsylvania, February 3, 1865; 
West Virginia, February 3, 1865; Missouri, February 6, 1865; Maine, 
February 7, 1865; Kansas, February 7, 1865; Massachusetts, February 7, 
1865; Virginia, February 9, 1865; Ohio, February 16, 1865; Indiana, 
February 13, 1865; Nevada, February 16, 1865; Louisiana, February 17, 
1865; Minnesota, February 23, 1865; Wisconsin, February 24, 1865; 
Vermont, March 9, 1865; Tennessee, April 7, 1865; Arkansas, April 14, 
1865; Connecticut, May 4, 1865; New Hampshire, July 1, 1865; South 
Carolina, November 13, 1865; Alabama, December 2, 1865; North Carolina, 
December 4, 1865; and Georgia, December 6, 1865. Ratification was 
completed on December 6, 1865. The amendment was subsequently ratified 
by Oregon, December 8, 1865; California, December 19, 1865; Florida, 
December 28, 1865 (Florida again ratified on June 9, 1868, upon its 
adoption of a new constitution); Iowa, January 15, 1866; New Jersey, 
January 23, 1866 (after having rejected the amendment on March 16, 
1865); Texas, February 18, 1870; Delaware, February 12, 1901 (after 
having rejected the amendment on February 8, 1865); Kentucky, March 30, 
1976 (after hearing rejected the amendment on February 24, 1865). The 
amendment was rejected by Mississippi, December 4, 1865.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------




  Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation.