Inasmuch as the bill 'for the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia' has not become a law in either of the modes designated in the section above quoted, it has not been delivered to the Secretary of State for record and promulgation.
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My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.
I transmit herewith, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of December last, a report from the Secretary of State of the 6th instant.
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