50 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the
President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be
taken by states, the representation from each state having one
vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or
members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all
the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of
Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the
right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day
of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as
President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional
disability of the President.—The person having the greatest
number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President,
if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors
appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the
two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the
Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-
thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the
whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person
constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be
eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

ARTICLE XIII.*

SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except
as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any
place subject to their jurisdiction.

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

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393. White v Hart, 13 Wall. 646. Osborn
v Nicholson, 13 Wall 654. Slaughterhouse Cases, 16 Wall. 36. Ex parte
Virginia, 100 U S. 339. Civil Rights Case, 109 U. S. 3. Plessy v. Fer-
guson, 163 U. S 537. Robertson v. Baldwin, 165 U. S. 275. Patterson v.
Bark Eudora, 190 U. S 169.

"The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States
was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-eighth
Congress, on the 1st of February, 1865, and was declared, in a proclama-
tion 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,
viz. Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, New York, West Vir-
ginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Mis-
souri, Nevada, 'Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Ten-
nessee, Arkansas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama,
North Carolina and Georgia.