Blount_Letter_019_47801

STATE OF CONNECTICUT- Hartford February 4^th A. D. 1815.

Sir,

By direction of the General Assembly of this State, I have the honour to transmit to your Excellency a copy of certain [?] adopted at their late session ; with a request that the [?] may be laid before the Legislature of the State over which you preside.

With great respect, I have the honour to be Your Excellency's obedient & most humble servant,

John Cotton Smith

His Excellency

The Governour of Tennessee -

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His Excellency

The Governour of the State of Tennessee -

Feb 4

At a special session of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, covened by Proclamation of His Excellency the Governour, and holden at Hartford in said State on the fourth Wednesday in January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

RESOLVED, That the Senators of this State, and the Representatives of the people thereof, in the Congress of the United States, be requested to use their endeavours, that Congress propose to the Legislatures of the several States, for their adoption, the following amendments of the Constitution of the United States, viz.

First. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers of free persons, including those bound to serve for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, and all other persons.

Second. No new State shall be admitted into the Union by Congress, in virtue of the power granted by the Constitution, without the concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses.

Third. Congress shall not have the power to lay any embargo on the ships or vessels of the citizens of the United States, in the ports or harbours thereof, for more than sixty days.

Fourth. Congress shall not have power, without the concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses, to interdict the commerical intercourse between the United States and any foreign nation or the dependencies thereof.

Fifth. Congress shall not make or declare war, or authorise acts of hostility against any foreign nation, without the concurrecnce of two-thirds of both Houses, except such acts of hostility be in a defence of the territories of the United States, when actually invaded.

Sixth. No person who shall hereafter be naturalized, shall be eligible as a member of the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States nor capable of holding any civil office under the authority of the United States.

Seventh. The same person shall not be elected President of the United States a second time; nor shall the President be elected from the same State two terms in succession.

Resolved, That His Excellency the Governour be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing resolution to the Senators of this State, and the Representatives of the people thereof, in the Congress of the United States ; and that he also transmit to the Executives of the several States, like copies, to be laid before the Legislatures thereof, soliciting their extertions and co-operation with this Assembly, in procuring the aforesaid amendments to be adopted, and made a part of the Consitution of the United States.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT:-

Secretary's Office, February 1^st, 1815. The above and foregoing are true copies of record.

Attest. Thomas Day, Secretary.