REPORT.

The joint Committee on Federal Relations to whom was re-
ferred a document, transmitted by the Secretary of State of
the United States, to the Executive of this State, containing;
a cupy of a resolution of Congress, proposing an amendment
of the Constitution of the United States, submit the following
report and resolutions.

The proposed amendment is in the following words viz :

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

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 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.

Sec. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the seve-
ral 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 al any election for the
choice of electors for President and Vice President of the Uni-
ted States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and
Judicial Officers of a State, or the members of the Legis-
lature 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 participa-
tion in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation