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ARTICLE II.

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases | Agreement or Compact with another State, or whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless en Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become as will not admit of Delay. the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dock Yards, and other needful Buildings;-And

and

To make all Laws which shall be necessary proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. SEC. 9. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or Duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be
laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enu-

meration herein before directed to be taken.
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles ex-
ported from any State.

No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.

SEC. 1. The executive Power shall be vested

in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President,

chosen for the same term, be elected as follows

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of [The Electors shall meet in their respective whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant shall make a list of all the Persons voted for, of the same State with themselves. And they and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the the Presence of the Senate and House of RepSenate. The President of the Senate shall, in resentatives, open all the Certificates, and the

Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the whole Number of Electors appointed; and it President, if such Number be a Majority of the there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, if no Person have a Majority, then from the chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and but in Consequence of Appropriations made by five highest on the List the said House shall in Law; and a regular Statement and Account of like Manner chuse the President. But in chusthe Receipts and Expenditures of all public ing the President, the Votes shall be taken by Money shall be published from time to time. No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign

State.

SEC. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

States, the Representation from each State hav-
ing one Vote; A Quorum for this Purpose shall
of the States, and a Majority of all the States
consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds
shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case,
after the Choice of the President, the Person
having the greatest Number of Votes of the
there should remain two or more who have equal
Electors shall be the Vice President. But if
Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by
Ballot the Vice President.*]

The Congress may determine the Time of
chusing the Electors, and the Day on which
they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be
the same throughout the United States.

No State shall, without the consent of the Citizen of the United States, at the time of the No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and to the Office of President; neither shall any the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid Person be eligible to that Office who shall not by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and been fourteen Years a Resident within the and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress. No State shall, without the Consent of Congress lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any

United States.

In Case of the Removal of the President from

Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability

twelfth article of the Amendments.

*This clause of the Constitution has been annulled. Sop

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ARTICLE III.

to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the same shall devolve on the Vice PresiSEC. 1. The judicial Power of the United dent, and the Congress may by Law provide for States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation, or In-in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from ability, both of the President and Vice President, time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, declaring what Officer shall then act as Presi- both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall dent, and such Officer shall act accordingly, hold their Offices during good Behavior, and until the Disability be removed, or a President shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, shall be elected. a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any

of them.

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, heshall take the following Oath or Affirmation :

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

SEC. 2. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; ne may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shail have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

SEC. 2. The judicial Power shall extend to all cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Con stitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;-to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers, and Consuls;-to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;-to Controversies between two or more States;-between a State and Citizens of another State;-between Citizens of different States,-between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.

SEC. 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person at

tainted.

ARTICLE IV.

the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

SEC. 2. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.

SEC. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, SEC. 1. Full Faith and Credit shall by given and recommend to their Consideration such in each State to the public Acts, Records, and Measures as he shall judge necessary and expe-judicial Proceedings of every other State. And dent; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Repect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adiourn them to such Time as he shall think Proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; and he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and he shall Commission all the officers of the United States. SEC. 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.

No Person held to Service or Labour in one

State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into

ARTICLE VII.

another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or The Ratification of the Conventions of nine Regulation therein, be discharged from such Ser-States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment vice or Labour, but shall be delivered up on of this Constitution between the States so ratifyClaim of the Party to whom such Service or ing the Same. Labour may be due.

SEC. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.

SEC. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Leislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

ARTICLE V.

Amendments.

ART. 1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

ART. 2. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

ART. 3. No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

ART. 4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

ART. 5. No person shall be held to answer for capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any Criminal Case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Ap-a plication of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

ARTICLE VI.

All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

ART. 6. In all criminal prosecutions, the ac cused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have Compulsory process for obtaining Witnesses in his favour, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

ART. 7. In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

ART. 8. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines be imposed, nor cruel and unThe Senators and Representatives before men-usual punishments inflicted. tioned, and the Members of the several State ART. 9. The enumeration in the Constitution, Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Offi- of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny cers, both of the United States and of the several or disparage others retained by the people. States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United

States.

ART. 10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

ART. 11. The Judicial power of the United

States shall not be construed to extend to any A resolution submitting to the Legislatures

suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.

of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States.

"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both Houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the said Constitution, namely:

ARTICLE XIII.

"SEC. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

"SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

And whereas it appears from official documents on file in this Department that the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed as aforesaid, has been ratified by the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia-in all, twenty-seven States;

ART. 12. The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as VicePresident, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;-The President of the Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the And whereas the whole number of States in states, and a majority of all the states shall be the United States is thirty-six, and whereas the necessary to a choice. And if the House of Rep-before specially-named States, whose Legislatures resentatives shall not choose a President when-have ratified the said proposed amendment, conever the right of choice shall devolve apon them,stitute three-fourths of the whole number of before the fourth day of March next following, States in the United States: then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Now, therefore, be it known that I, William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of the second section of the act of Congress approved the twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled" An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States and for other purposes," do hereby certify that the amendment aforesaid 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 eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord

Mr. Seward's Certificate of the Anti-Slavery [SEAL] one thousand eight hundred and sixty

Amendment, known as the 13th Amendment. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

To all to whom these presents may come, greeting: Know ye, that whereas the Congress of the United States on the 1st of February last passed a resolution which is in the words following, namely:

five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the ninetieth.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.

[New Jersey, Oregon, California and Iowa ratified subsequently to the date of this certificate, as did Florida in the same form as South Carolina and Alabama.]

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PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S ORDERS AND PROCLAMATIONS.

Respecting Commercial Intercourse with In-
surrectionary States, April 29, 1865.

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, April 29, 1865.
Being desirous to relieve all loyal citizens and
well-disposed persons, residing in insurrectionary
States, from unnecessary commercial restrictions,
and to encourage them to return to peaceful pur-

suits, It is hereby ordered:

| proceed to prefer charges against said parties for
their alleged offences, and bring them to trial be-
fore said military commission; that said trial or
trials be conducted by the said Judge Advocate
General, and as recorder thereof, in person, aided
by such assistant and special judge advocates
as he may designate; and that said trials be
ends of justice: the said commission to sit with-
conducted with all diligence consistent with the

I. That all restrictions upon internal, domes-out regard to hours.
tic, and coastwise commercial intercourse be dis-
continued in such parts of the States of Tennes-
see, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so
much of Louisiana as lies east of the Mississippi
river, as shall be embraced within the lines of
national military occupation, excepting only such
restrictions as are imposed by acts of Congress
and regulations in pursuance thereof, prescribed
by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved
by the President; and excepting also from the
effect of this order the following articles contra- ORDER FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE SENTENCE OF
band of war, to wit: arms, ammunition, all arti-
cles from which ammunition is manufactured,
gray uniforms and cloth, locomotives, cars, rail-
road iron, and machinery for operating railroads,
telegraph wires, insulators, and instruments for
operating telegraphic lines.

2d. That Brevet Major General Hartranft be assigned to duty as special provost marshal general, for the purpose of said trial, and attendance upon said commission, and the execution of its mandates.

3d. That the said commission establish such
order or rules of proceedings as may avoid un-
necessary delay, and conduce to the ends of pub-
lic justice.
ANDREW JOHNSON.

II. All existing military and naval orders in any manner restricting internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial intercourse and trade with or in the localities above named be, and the same are hereby revoked; and that no military or naval officer, in any manner, interrupt or interfere with the same, or with any boats or other vessels engaged therein, under proper authority, pursuant to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

Executive Order for the Trial of the Alleged
Assassins of President Lincoln, May 1, 1865.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON CITY, May 1, 1865.
Whereas, the Attorney General of the United
States hath given his opinion:

That the persons implicated in the murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of the Honorable William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and in an alleged conspiracy to assassinate other officers of the Federal Government at Washington city, and their aiders and abettors, are subject to the jurisdiction of, and lawfully triable before, a military commission:

It is Ordered: 1st, That the Assistant Adju. tant General detail nine competent military officers to serve as a commission for the trial of said parties, and that the Judge Advocate General

THE COMMISSION.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 5, 1865. The foregoing sentences in the cases of David E. Herold, G. A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt and Samuel A. Mudd, are hereby approved, and it is ordered that the sentences of said David E. Herold, G. A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Mary E. Surratt and Samuel A. Mudd, be carried into execution by the proper military authority, under the direction of the Secretary of War, on the 7th day of July, 1865, between the hours of 10 o'clock, a. m., and 2 o'clock, p. m., of that day. It is further ordered, that the pris oners, Samuel Arnold, Samuel A. Mudd, Edward Spangler, and Michael O'Laughlin be confined at hard labor in the Penitentiary at Albany, New York, during the period designated in their respective sentences.

ANDREW JOHNSON, President,

[By an order dated July 15, the place of confinement, as to the four last mentioned, was changed to the "military prison at Dry Tertugas, Florida."]

For the Arrest of Jefferson Davis, Clement C.

Clay, and others, May 2, 1865.

Whereas it appears from evidence in the Bu. reau of Military Justice that the atrocious murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of the Honorable William H. Seward, Secretary of State, were incited, concerted, and procured by and between Jefferson Davis, late of Richmond, Virginia, and Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Beverly Tucker, George N. Saunders, William C. Cleary.

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