United States Fifteenth Amendment

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Session 6604: 1869-02-27 12:00:00

The credentials of Hannibal Hamlin from Maine are presented; a resolution requesting the President to transmit the proposed amendment to the Constitution to the several States is proposed

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Resolution Requesting the President to Transmit the Proposed Constitutional Amendment to the States

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Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring.) That the President of the United States be requested to transmit forthwith to the Executives of the several States of the United States copies of the article of amendment proposed by Congress to the State Legislatures to amend the Constitution of the United States, passed February 26,1869, respecting the exercise of the elective franchise, to the end that the said States may proceed to act upon the said article of amendment, and that he request the Executive of each State that may ratify said amendment to transmit to the Secretary of State a certified copy of such ratification.

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