    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 90-91]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                              AMENDMENT XIII.a

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    exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
    jurisdiction.

    Sec. 224. Prohibition of slavery and involuntary
    servitude.

      Section 1.  Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
    punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
    shall

      a The 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States was
    proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 38th Congress,
    on February 1, 1865, and was declared, in a proclamation of the
    Secretary of State, dated the 18th of December 1865, to have been
    ratified by the legislatures of twenty-seven of the thirty-six States.
    The dates of ratification were: Illinois, February 1, 1865; Rhode
    Island, February 2, 1865; Michigan, February 2, 1865; Maryland, February
    3, 1865; New York, February 3, 1865; Pennsylvania, February 3, 1865;
    West Virginia, February 3, 1865; Missouri, February 6, 1865; Maine,
    February 7, 1865; Kansas, February 7, 1865; Massachusetts, February 7,
    1865; Virginia, February 9, 1865; Ohio, February 16, 1865; Indiana,
    February 13, 1865; Nevada, February 16, 1865; Louisiana, February 17,
    1865; Minnesota, February 23, 1865; Wisconsin, February 24, 1865;
    Vermont, March 9, 1865; Tennessee, April 7, 1865; Arkansas, April 14,
    1865; Connecticut, May 4, 1865; New Hampshire, July 1, 1865; South
    Carolina, November 13, 1865; Alabama, December 2, 1865; North Carolina,
    December 4, 1865; and Georgia, December 6, 1865. Ratification was
    completed on December 6, 1865. The amendment was subsequently ratified
    by Oregon, December 8, 1865; California, December 19, 1865; Florida,
    December 28, 1865 (Florida again ratified on June 9, 1868, upon its
    adoption of a new constitution); Iowa, January 15, 1866; New Jersey,
    January 23, 1866 (after having rejected the amendment on March 16,
    1865); Texas, February 18, 1870; Delaware, February 12, 1901 (after
    having rejected the amendment on February 8, 1865); Kentucky, March 30,
    1976 (after hearing rejected the amendment on February 24, 1865). The
    amendment was rejected by Mississippi, December 4, 1865.
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      Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
    appropriate legislation.