the states, shall be valid and binding as a part of the Constitution of the United States. "If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain, any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any Emperor, King, Prince or Foreign Power, such person shall cease to be a Citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them." BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of Maryland. That the aforesaid amendment be, and the same is hereby confirmed and ratified. By the House of Delegates, December 25, 1810. I hereby certify, that the foregoing is truly taken from Liber T. H. No. 3, Folio 4, one of the Law Records of the State of Maryland, belonging to the Office of the Court of Appeals, for the Western Shore of the said State. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. I hereunto subscribe my Name, and affix the Seal of the said Court of Appeals, this sixteenth Day of November, in the [SEAL.] Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven; and in the Thirty-Sixtk Year of the Independence of the United States of America. TH: HARRIS, Jun. clk C' App's [INDORSEMENT.] 13th Art. ratified by Md notice of amendm' of constitution by State of Maryland SIR, STATE OF KENTUCKY, FRANKFORT, FEBRUARY 9th, 1811. PURSUANT to the duty enjoined on me, I have the honor to transmit to you, the enclosed resolution passed by the Legislature of this state, at their last session. I am, with considerations of high respect, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JANUARY 29, 1811. THE General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, have taken under consideration, the section submitted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, as an amendment to the constitution of United States, proposing, that, the "IF any citizen of the United States, shall accept, claim, "receive or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, "without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any 66 present, pension, office or emolument of any kind what"ever, from any Emporor, King, Prince, or foreign power; "such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, "and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or "profit under them, or either of them." WHEREUPON, resolved, that the assent of the state of Kentucky, be, and it is, by the Legislature thereof, hereby given to the said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and on the part of the said state of Kentucky, it is assented, that the said section be adopted, and shall be valid and binding, as a part of the Constitution of the United States, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the states. RESOLVED, That the Governor of this Commonwealth, be requested to communicate the foregoing resolution, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, and to the Governor of each of the states. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, Frankfort, 9th February, 1811. I Certify the foregoing to be a true copy of an enrolled resolution in this office. Teste, J: BLEDSOE Secretary. In Senate of the United States, 1811 February 20th The President communicated a resolution of the Legislature of the State of Kentucky approving the amendment to the constitution respecting titles of nobility, which was read; and Ordered, That it be transmitted to the office of the Secretary for the department of state. Attest SAM A OTIS Secretary. [INDORSEMENT.] Kentucky Amendment to the Constitution. 13th art. ratified. |