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  3. Committee:The Senate
  4. Session: 1868-06-30 12:00:00
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United States Fifteenth Amendment

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Session 6561: 1868-06-30 12:00:00

The credentials of Thomas W. Osborn from Florida are presented, he is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate

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Ordinance of the Legislature of Florida ratifying the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments

There are 3 proposed amendments related to this document on which decisions have not been taken.

Be it resolved by the people of the State of Florida in Senate and Assembly represented. That the following proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States, known as articles thirteenth and fourteenth, be, and the same are hereby, adopted:

XIII Amendment.

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.

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

XIV Amendment.

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its Jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws.

2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a. State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President or Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability.

4. The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for the payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States or any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave: but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.

5. Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Passed in the Senate June 9. A. D. 1868.

HORATIO JENKINS, Jr., President. WILLIAM LEE APTHORP. Secretary.

Passed by the Assembly, June 9. A. D. 1868.

W. W. MOORE. Speaker.

WILLIAM FORSYTH BYNUM. Clerk.

Approved, June 11. A. D. 1868.

HARRISON REED, Governor.

State or Florida, Executive Office. This is to certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original resolution, as the same appears on file in this office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Florida, this 22d day of June, A. D. 1868.

HARRISON REED, Governor.

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