August 13, 1868.-Proclamation of treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between United States and Nicaragua. August 22, 1868.-Proclamation declaring Sitka a port of entry. October 9, 1868.--Proclamation of treaty with Great Britain in regard to the rights of naturalized citizens, and similar to the treaty with the North German Confederation. October 31, 1868.-Proclamation of a treaty with the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, by which they cede to the United States all their lands, in return for which ample compensation is made, and a tract of land set aside in the Indian country south of Kansas for their future home. November 5, 1868.-Proclamation of an extradition treaty with Italy. November 9, 1868.-Proclamation of the ratification of a treaty between the United States and the Senecas, Shawnees, Quapaws, Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, Piankeshaws, Miamies, Ottawas, and certain Wyandottes. THE FOURTEENTH CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. The following is the text of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, as passed at the first session of the XXXIXth Congress, June 16, 1866: ARTICLE XIV. SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of 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 the laws. SEC. 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. SEC. 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 or comfort to the enemies thereof; but Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing the insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor 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. SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. On the 20th of July, 1868, Secretary Seward issued a circular reciting the action which had been had by the respective States, and on the 21st, Congress adopted a resolution declaring the foregoing article to be a part of the Constitution. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF ITS RATIFICATION. TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME, GREETING: Whereas, By an act of Congress passed on the 20th of April, 1818, entitled An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes," it is declared that "whenever official notice shall have been received at the Department of State that any amendment which heretofore has been and hereafter may be proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been adopted according to the provisions of the Constitution, it shall be the duty of the said Secretary of State forthwith to cause the said amendment to be published in the newspapers authorized to promulgate the laws, with his certificate, specifying the statute 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." And Whereas, The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, on the 21st day of July, 1868, adopted and transmitted to the Department of State a concurrent resolution, which concurrent resolution is in the words and figures following, to wit: Whereas, The Legislatures of the States of Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Maine, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina, and Louisiana, being three-fourths and more of the several States of the Union, have ratified the 14th article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, duly proposed by two-thirds of each House of the XXXIXth Congress; therefore Resolved, By the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that said Fourteenth Article is hereby declared to be a part of the Constitution of the United States, and it shall be duly promulgated as such by the Secretary of State. And whereas, Official notice has been received at the Department of State, that the Legisla tures of the several States next hereinafter named have, at the time respectively herein mentioned, taken the proceedings, hereinafter recited, upon or in relation to the ratification of the said proposed amendment, called Article 14, namely: The Legislature of Connecticut ratified the amendment, June 30, 1866. The Legislature of New Hampshire ratified it July 7, 1866. The Legislature of Tennessee ratified it July 19, 1866. The Legislature of New Jersey ratified it September 11, 1866, and the Legislature of the same State passed a resolution in April, 1866, to withdraw its consent to it. The Legislature of Oregon ratified it Sept. 19, 1866. The Legislature of Texas rejected it Nov. 1, 1866. The Legislature of Vermont ratified it on or previous to Nov. 9, 1866. The Legislature of Georgia rejected it Nov. 13, 1866, and the Legislature of the same State ratified it July 21, 1868. The Legislature of North Carolina rejected it Dec. 4, 1866, and the Legislature of the same State ratified it July 4, 1868. The Legislature of South Carolina rejected it Dec. 20, 1866, and the Legislature of the same State ratified it July 9, 1868. The Leg. islature of Virginia rejected it Jan. 9, 1867. The Legislature of Kentucky rejected it Jan. 10, 1867. The Legislature of New York ratified it Jan. 10, 1867. The Legislature of Ohio ratified it Jan. 11, 1867, and the Legislature of the same State passed a resolution in January, 1868, to withdraw its consent to it. The Legislature of Illinois ratified it Jan. 15, 1867. The Legislature of West Virginia ratified it Jan. 16, 1867. The Legislature of Kansas ratified it Jan. 18, 1867. The Legislature of Maine ratified it Jan. 19, 1867. The Legislature of Nevada ratified it Jan. 22, 1867. The Legislature of Missouri ratified it on or previous to Jan. 26, 1867. The Legislature of Indiana ratified it Jan. 29, 1867. The Legislature of Minnesota ratified it Feb. 1, 1867. The Legislature of Rhode Island ratified it Feb. 7, 1867. The Legislature of Delaware rejected it Feb. 7, 1867. The Legislature of Wisconsin ratified it Feb. 12, 1867. The Legislature of Pennsylvania ratified it Feb. 13, 1867. The Legislature of Michigan ratified it Feb. 15, 1867. The Legislature of Massachusetts ratified it March 20, 1867. The Legislature of Maryland rejected it March 23, 1867. The Legislature of Nebraska ratified it June 11, 1867. The Legisla ture of Iowa ratified it April 3, 1868. The Legislature of Arkansas ratified it April 6, 1868. The Legislature of Florida ratified it June 9, 1868. The Legislature of Louisiana ratified it July 9, 1868, and the Legislature of Alabama ratified it July 13, 1868. And now, therefore, be it known that I, William II. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, in execution of the aforesaid act, and of the aforesaid concurrent resolution of the 21st of July, 1868, and in conformance thereto, do hereby direct the said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States to be published in the newspapers authorized to promul gate the laws of the United States, and I do hereby certify that the said proposed amendment has been adopted in the manner herein before-mentioned by the States specified in the said concurrent resolution, namely: the States of Connecticut, New Hampshire, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, New York, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, and also by the Legislature of the State of Georgia. The States thus specified being more than three-fourths of the States of the United States, I do further certify that the said amendment has become valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution of the United States. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 28th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the independence of the United States of America the ninety-third. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. SCHEDULE OF STAMP DUTIES. AGREEMENT OR CONTRACT, other than those specified in this schedule, any Appraisement of BILL OF EXCHANGE, (inland), Draft or Order, otherwise than at sight, or on demand, or any BILL OF EXCHANGE, (foreign,) drawn in but payable out of the United States, if drawn singly or otherwise than in a set of three or more.... BILL OF EXCHANGE, if drawn in sets of three or more for every bill of each set, for $100 or less, or its equivalent in the foreign currency expressed in it.................. For every additional $100 or fractional part thereof.. BILL OF LADING, or Receipt (other than Charter-Party) for goods to be exported to foreign port. Duplicate same stamp as original.. BILL OF SALE of any ship or vessel, or any part thereof, where the consideration is $500 or less. Exceeding $500 and less than $1,000.. Exceeding $1,000, for every additional $500. Of personal property.. BONDS OF INDEMNITY, Penalty $1,000 or less. Penalty exceeding $1,000, for every additional $1,000 or fractional part thereof. For due execution or performance of duties of office.. BOND of any description, other than such as are required in legal proceedings, or are used in connection with mortgages, and not otherwise charged.. BOND AND MORTGAGE. See Mortgage. CERTIFICATE OF STOCK in any incorporated company.. OF PROFITS, in an incorporated company, for $10 or under, to $50.. For over $50 and not over $1,000... For over $1,000, for every $1,000. Of Damage... Of Deposit, for a sum not exceeding $100.. Exceeding $100.. Of any other description.. CHARTER-PARTY, if tonnage does not exceed 150 tons.. .02 1.00 1.00 .10 .25 .25 .25 .02 .05 .05 1.00 CONVEYANCE, deed, instrument, or writing, whereby any lands, tenements, or other realty .10 sold shall be granted, assigned, transferred, or otherwise conveyed to or vested in .50 Value exceeding $500 and not exceeding $1,000... 1.00 .50 ENTRY, Custom House, for consumption or warehousing not exceeding $100.. (Marine, Inland and Fire,) each Policy, consideration paid for which not exceeding $10. Exceeding $10, and not exceeding $50.. MORTGAGE on any personal bond given as security for the payment of any definite sum of money, exceeding $100, and not exceeding $500... $0.50 Exceeding $500, for every additional $500 or fractional part thereof. .50 PASSAGE TICKETS to Foreign ports, not exceeding $35.. .50 Exceeding $35, and not exceeding $50...... 1.00 Exceeding $50, for every additional $50 or fractional part thereof.. .50 PROBATE OF WILL or Letters of Administration, estate not exceeding in value $2,000. 1.00 .50 .25 .02 .10 Exceeding $500 and not exceeding $1,000.... For goods not otherwise provided for... .20 .10 .25 .50 .50 .50 .25 .50 PROTEST.. RECEIPTS, for the payment of money or a debt due, exceeding $20, not being for mortgage, judgment, or decree; and receipt for delivery of property, except express receipts. Warehouse, for goods not exceeding $500 in value.. Exceeding $1,000, for every additional $1,000 or fractional part.. WRIT, or other original process by which any suit is commenced in any Court of Record.. Penalties. Penalty for making, signing, or issuing any instrument, document, or paper of any kind whatsoever, without the same being duly stamped, $200, and the instrument shall be deemed invalid and of no effect; or for counterfeiting stamps or dies, $1,000, and imprisonment to hard labor not exceeding five years. Penalty for making, signing, issuing, accepting or paying any Bill of Exchange, Draft, Order, or Promissory Note without stamp, $200. Penalty for accepting or paying a foreign Bill of Exchange without first affixing a stamp, $100. Penalty recoverable from any Telegraph for receiving or transmitting any message without the proper adhesive stamp being affixed to a written copy thereof, $10. General Remarks. In all cases, the person affixing the stamp should write upon it the initials of his name and the date when used. The law does not designate which of the parties to an instrument shall furnish the necessary stamp, nor does the Commissioner of Internal Revenue assume to determine that it shall be supplied by one party rather than by another; but if an instrument subject to stamp duty is issued without having the necessary stamps affixed thereto, it cannot be recorded, or admitted, or used as evidence, in any court, until a legal stamp or stamps, denoting the amount of tax, shall have been affixed as prescribed by law, and the person who thus issues it is liable to a penalty, if he omits the stamps with an intent to evade the provisions of the internal revenue act. No stamp is necessary upon an instrument executed prior to October 1, 1862, to make it admissible in evidence, or to entitle it to record. Certificates of loan in which there shall appear any written or printed evidence of an amount of money to be paid on demand, or at a time designated, are subject to stamp duty as "promissory notes." When two or more persons join in the execution of an instrument, the stamp to which the instrument is liable under the law may be affixed and cancelled by either of them; and “when more than one signature is affixed to the same paper, one or more stamps may be affixed thereto, representing the whole amount of the stamp required for such signatures." No stamp is required on any warrant of attorney accompanying a bond or note, when such bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp or stamps denoting the duty required; and, whenever any bond or note is secured by mortgage, but one stamp duty is required on such papersBuch stamp duty being the highest rate required for such instruments, or either of them. In such case a note or memorandum of the value or denomination of the stamp affixed should be made upon the margin or in the acknowledgment of the instrument which is not stamped. Kellogg, Francis W. Sypher, J. Hale STANDING COMMITTEES ON THE PART OF THE SENATE. Foreign Relations. Messrs. Sumner (chairman), Fessenden, Cameron, Harlan, Morton, Patterson of New Hampshire, and Bayard. Finances. Messrs. Sherman (chairman), Morgan, Warner, Williams, Corbett, Henderson, Morrill of Vermont. Appropriations. Messrs. Morrill of Maine, (chairman), Grimes, Howe, Wilson, Cole, Conkling, Buckalew. Commerce. Messrs. Chandler (chairman), Morrill of Vermont, Vickers, Spencer, Kellogg, and Corbett. Manufactures. Messrs. Sprague (chairman), Yates, Abbott, Dixon, and Robertson. Military Affairs and the Militia. Messrs. Wilson (chairman), Sprague, Cameron, Morton, Abbott, Thayer, and Doolittle. Naval Affairs. Messrs. Grimes (chairman), Anthony, Cragin, Frelinghuysen, Drake, Hendricks. Judiciary. Messrs. Trumbull (chairman), Stewart, Frelinghuysen, Edmunds, Conkling, Rice, Hendricks. Post-Offices and Post Roads. Messrs. Ramsey (chairman), Conness, Pomeroy, Van Winkle, McDonald, Welch, and Dixon.. Public Lands. Messrs. Pomeroy (chairman), Stewart, Osborne, Williams, Tipton, Hendricks, and Warner. Private Land Claims. Messrs. Williams (chairman), Sumner, Kellogg, Ferry, Bayard. Indian Affairs. Messrs. Henderson (chairman), Morrill of Maine, Ross, Corbett, Thayer, Buckalew, Doolittle. Pensions. Messrs. Van Winkle (chairman), Edmunds, Fowler, Tipton, Davis, Spencer, and Sawyer. Revolutionary Claims. Messrs. Nye (chairman), Chandler, Pool, Patterson of Tenn., and Saulsbury. Claims. Messrs. Howe (chairman), Willey, Frelinghuysen, Howard, Robertson, Cole, and Davis. District of Columbia. Messrs. Harlan (chairman), Sumner, Rice, Patterson (N. H.), Harris, Patterson (Tenn.), and Vickers. Patents and the Patent Office. Messrs. Willey, Osborne, Thayer, Ferry, and Norton. Public Buildings and Grounds. Messrs. Fessenden (chairman), Trumbull, Ferry, Davis, and Whyte. Territories. Messrs. Yates (chairman), Nye, Cragin, Fowler, McDonald, Ferry, McCreery, Davis, and Norton. Pacific Railroad. Messrs. Howard (chairman), Sherman, Morgan, Conness, Ramsey, Stewart, Wilson, Harlan, and Drake. To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. Messrs. Cragin (chairman), Morrill (Vt.), and Buckalew. Engrossed Bills. Messrs. Fowler (chairman), Sumner, and Norton. |
