18 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

The State of Vermont, by convention, ratified the Constitution on
the 10th of January, 1791, and was, by an act of Congress of the 18th
of February, 1791, "received and admitted into this Union as a new
and entire member of the United States of America."

RATIFICATIONS OF THE AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION.

The first ten of the preceding articles of amendment (with two others
which were not ratified by the requisite number of States) were sub-
mitted to the several State legislatures by a resolution of Congress
which passed on the 25th of September, 1789, at the first session of the
First Congress, and were ratified by the legislatures of the following
States:

New Jersey, November 20, 1789.
Maryland, December 19, 1789.
North Carolina, December 22, 1789.
South Carolina, January 19, 1790.
New Hampshire, January 25, 1790.
Delaware, January 28, 1790.
Pennsylvania, March 10, 1790.
New York, March 27, 1790.
Rhode Island, June 15, 1790.
Vermont, November 3, 1791.
Virginia, December 15, 1791.

The acts of the legislatures of the States ratifying these amendments
were transmitted by the governors to the President, and by him com-
municated to Congress. The legislatures of Massachusetts, Connecti-
cut, and Georgia do not appear by the record to have ratified them.

The eleventh article was submitted to the legislatures of the several
States by a resolution of Congress passed on the 5th of March, 1794,
at the first session of the Third Congress; and on the 8th of January,
1798, at the second session of the Fifth Congress, it was declared by
the president, in a message to the two Houses of Congress, to have been
adopted by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States, there being at
the time sixteen States in the Union.

The twelfth article was submitted to the legislatures of the several
States, there being then seventeen States, by a resolution of Congress
passed on the 12th of December, 1803, at the first session of the Eighth
Congress, and was ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the
States in 1804, according to a proclamation of the Secretary of State
dated the 25th of September, 1804.

The thirteenth article was submitted to the legislatures of the several
States, there being then thirty-six States, by a resolution of Congress
passed on the 1st of February, 1865, at the second session of the Thirty-
eighth Congress, and was ratified, according to a proclamation of the