[COPY] Sec. 205. Whenever official notice is received at the Department of State that any amendment proposed to the Constitution. of the United States has been adopted, according to the provisions of the Constitution, the Secretary of State shall forthwith cause the amendment to be published in the newspapers authorized to promulgate the laws, with his certificate, specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States.- Revised Statutes, 1878. No. [COPY] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [SEAL] DEPARTMENT OF STATE To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: I certify that the copy hereto attached is a true copy of a resolution of Congress, entitled "Joint Resolution Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States," the original of which is on file in this Department. In testimony whereof, I, ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State, have hereunto caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed and my name subscribed by the Chief Clerk of the said Department, at the City of Washington, this Twenty-eighth day of December, 1917. (Signed) By (Signed) ROBERT LANSING, BEN G. DAVIS, S. J. Res. 17. [COPY] SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT THE SECOND SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON ON MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN. JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION 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 amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided by the Constitution: "ARTICLE "Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. "Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. "Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress." CHAMP CLARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOS. R. MARSHALL, Vice President of the United States and I certify that this Joint Resolution originated in the Senate. 31462-17. JAMES M. BAKER, Secretary. [COPY] to Sec. 205. Whenever official notice is received at the Department of State that any amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been adopted, according the provisions of the Constitution, the Secretary of State shall forthwith cause the amendment to be published in the newspapers authorized to promulgate the laws, with his certificate, specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States.- Revised Statutes, 1878. No. [COPY] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [SEAL] DEPARTMENT OF STATE To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: I certify that the copy hereto attached is a true copy of a resolution of Congress, entitled "Joint Resolution Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States," the original of which is on file in this Department. In testimony whereof, I, ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State, have hereunto caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed and my name subscribed by the Chief Clerk of the said Department, at the City of Washington, this Twenty-eighth day of December, 1917. (Signed) ROBERT LANSING, By (Signed) BEN G. DAVIS, S. J. Res. 17. [COPY] SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT THE SECOND SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON ON MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN. JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION 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 amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided by the Constitution: "ARTICLE "Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. "Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. "Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress." CHAMP CLARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOS. R. MARSHALL, Vice President of the United States and I certify that this Joint Resolution originated in the Senate. 31462-17. JAMES M. BAKER, Secretary. |