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Senate Joint Resolution No. 1 by Mrs. Hayward

A JOINT RESOLUTION RATIFYING AN AMMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, PROPOSED BY THE JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES OF
THE UNITED STATES, PROVIDING THAT THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS
TO VOTE SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED ON ACCOUNT OF SEX.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGESLATURE OR THE STATE OF UTAH,
two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two Houses
concurring therein:

WHEREAS, the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States at the First Session of the Sixty-sixth
Congress of the United States of America, by House Joint Resolution
No. 1, proposed the following amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, to become valid as a part of the Constitution of the
United States when ratified by the Legislature of the several states
as provided by said Constitution:

Article.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account
of sex.

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

WHEREAS, the State of Utah has always favored equal suffrage,
and many of its citizens, both men and women, through personal efforts
and untiring energy, have labored for the adoption of the suffrage
amendment to the Constitution of the United States:

NOW, THERFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that said amendment to
the Constitution of the Unites States, be and the same is hereby
ratified and adopted by the Legislature of the State of Utah.

BE IT FURTER RESOLVD, that the Secretary of State of the
State of Utah, be, and he is hereby instructed to transmit forthwith
to the Secretary of State of the United States of America, a certified
copy of this resolution.