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gress 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 submitted 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 Presi-
dent, and by him communicated to Congress. The legisla-
tures, of Massachusetts, Connecticut, 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 legisla-
tures 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 resolu-
tion 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, accord-