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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

To all to whom these presents shall come. Greeting:

I certify, That annexed is a true copy of a Joint Resolution of Congress, entitled "A Resolution submitting to the legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States;" the original of which is on file in this Department.

In testimony whereof, I, William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this second day of February, A.D. 1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 89th

[signed] William H. Seward

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