ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1349

Sec. 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by
the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States
within seven years from the date of its submission"; there-
fore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Mary-
land,

1. That the foregoing amendment to the Constitution
of the United States be and the same is hereby ratified to
all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution of
the United States.

2. That the Governor of the State of Maryland be and
he is hereby requested to forward to the Secretary of State
and to the presiding officer of the United States Senate and
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the
United States an authentic copy of the foregoing resolution.

Approved March 31, 1933.

NO. 4.

A Joint Resolution memorializing Congress of the United
States to enact House Joint Resolution 191 commemo-
rating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
naturalization as an American citizen in 1783 of Briga-
dier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a hero of the Revo-
lutionary War, by issuing special series of postage
stamps in honor of Brigadier General Thaddeus Kos-
ciuszko.

WHEREAS, On October 13, 1933, will occur the one hun-
dred and fiftieth anniversary of the naturalization as an
American citizen of Brigadier General Thaddeus Kos-
ciuszko, a hero of the Revolutionary War; and

WHEREAS, The service rendered by him was of great
value and assistance to the cause of American Independ-
ence and of such high importance that on October 13,
1783, he was appointed Brevet Brigadier General of the
Continental Army, and was granted naturalization as an
American citizen; and