ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 447
CHAPTER 253.

AN ACT to provide for a Convention in the State of Mary-
land, for the ratification or rejection of the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, re-
pealing the Eighteenth Article of Amendment to said
Constitution, and prohibiting the transportation or im-
portation in any State, Territory or Possession of the
United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating
liquors in violation of the laws thereof, which said amend-
ment has been proposed by the Congress of the United
States in accordance with Article V of the Constitution
of the United States.

WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States on the 20th
day of February, 1933, by a Resolution duly passed in ac-
cordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United
States proposed the following amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States:

"JOINT RESOLUTION

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITU-
TION OF THE UNITED STATES.

"RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled
(two-thirds of each House concurring therein) that the
following Article is hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid
to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when
ratified by Conventions in three-fourths of the several
States:

"ARTICLE ——

"Sec. 1. The Eighteenth Article of Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

"Sec. 2. The transportation or importation into any
State, Territory, or Possession of the United States for de-
livery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of
the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

"Sec. 3. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by
Conventions in the several States, as provided in the Con-
stitution, within seven years from the date of the submis-
sion hereof to the States by the Congress. " And