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DONE at the City of Washington, this sixteenth day
of June, A. D. 1866, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the ninetieth.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

[CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, RECEIVED AT DEPARTMENT OF STA^E
JUNE 16, 1866.]

Joint Resolution proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States.

Be it resolved by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds
of both Houses concurring) That the following article be pro-
posed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when
ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall bo valid as
part of the Constitution, namely:

ARTICLE XIV

SECTION 1. 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, liberty, or property,
without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

SECTION 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the
several States according to their respective numbers, counting
the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians
not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for
the choice of electors for President and Vice-Prcsident of the
United States, Representatives in Congress, 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 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 citi-
zens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-
one years of age in such State.

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