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the said Constitution when ratified by the Leg-
islatures of three-fourths of the several States or
by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the
one or other mode of ratification may be proposed
by the Congress; and whereas, by the thirty-
eighth Congress of the United States at the sec-
ond session thereof, begun and held at the city
of Washington, on Monday the fifth day of De-
cember, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
four, it was resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of Amer-
ica in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both
Houses concurring, that the following Article
be proposed to the Legislatures of the several
States as an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, which, when ratified by three-
fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid, to all
intents and purposes, as a part of said Constitu-
tion, namely:

ARTICLE XIII.

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

Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this
Article by appropriate legislation; therefore,

Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the aforesaid amendment be and the
same is hereby confirmed and ratified.

No. 6.
WHEREAS, a bill has been introduced into the Sen- ate, of the United States levying a tax of twenty- five cents per pound on leaf tobacco, stems and scraps, and thirty cents on tobacco known as strips; and whereas, the imposition of such a tax	Assented to Feb. 16, 1864.