CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 21

Maine, January 19, 1867.
Nevada, January 22, 1867.
Missouri, January 26, 1867.
Indiana, January 29, 1867.
Minnesota, February 1, 1867.
Rhode Island, February 7, 1867.
Wisconsin, February 13, 1867.
Pennsylvania, February 13, 1867.
Michigan, February 15, 1867.
Massachusetts, March 20, 1867.
Nebraska, June 15, 1867.
Iowa, April 3, 1868.
Arkansas, April 6, 1868.
Florida, June 9, 1868.
1 North Carolina, July 4, 1868.
Louisiana, July 9, 1868.
1 South Carolina, July 9, 1868.
Alabama, July 13, 1868.

1 Georgia, July 21, 1868.

2 The State of Virginia ratified this amendment on the 8th of October,
1869, subsequent to the date of the proclamation of the Secretary of State.

The States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas rejected the
amendment.

The fifteenth article was submitted to the legislatures of the several
States, there being then thirty-seven States, by a resolution of Congress
passed on the 27th of February, 1869, at the first session of the Forty-first
Congress; and was ratified, according to a proclamation of the Secretary
of State dated March 30, 1870, by the legislatures of the following States:

Nevada, March 1, 1869.
West Virginia, March 3, 1869.
North Carolina, March 5, 1869.
Louisiana, March 5, 1869.
Illinois, March 5, 1869.
Michigan, March 8, 1869.
Wisconsin, March 9, 1869.
Massachusetts, March 12, 1869.
Maine, March 12, 1869.
South Carolina, March 16, 1869.
Pennsylvania, March 26, 1869.
Arkansas, March 30, 1869.

3 New York, April 14, 1869.
Indiana, May 14, 1869.
Connecticut, May 19, 1869.

1 North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia had previously rejected the amend-
ment.

2 Virginia had previously rejected the amendment.

3 New York withdrew her consent to the ratification January 5, 1870.