I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of yesterday, making further inquiry as to the States which have ratified the amendment to the Constitution proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress.
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I transmit to the Senate, in further answer to their resolution of the 14th of April last, the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.
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