1919 Special: Senate Joint Resolution No. 1

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Senate JOINT RESOLUTION

No. 1 By Mrs. Hayward September 29th, 1919

READ First time Sept. 29, 1919 Second time Sept. 29th, 1919 Third time Sept. 30th, 1919

Ordered Printed and Referred to Committee on 1919 REPORTED 1919 FURTHER ACTION

FINAL VOTE September 30th, 1919 Yeas 17 Nays Absent 1

RECEIVED FROM HOUSE Oct 2nd, 1919 Enrolled Oct 2nd, 1919 Sent to Governor Oct 2nd, 1919

IN THE HOUSE RECEIVED FROM SENATE Sept. 30, 1919

READ First time Sept. 30, 1919 Second time Oct. 2., 1919 Third time Oct. 2., 1919

REFERRED TO 1919 REPORTED 1919 FURTHER ACTION Passes under suspension of rules

FINAL VOTE October 2, 1919 Yeas 40 Nays 0 Absent 5

RETURNED TO STATE Oct 2nd, 1919

DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON June 12, 1919

The Honorable The Governor of the State of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah

Sir: I have the honor to enclose a certified copy of a Resolution of Congress, entitled "Joint Resolution Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women." with the request that you cause it to be submitted to the Legislature of your State for such action as may be had, and that a certfied copy of such action be communicated to the Secretary of State, as required by Section 205, Revised Statuses of the United States. (See overleaf.)

An acknowledgment of the receipt of this communication is requested.

I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant,

Enclosure: Frank L. Polk Joint Resolution as above. Acting Secretary of State.

Sec. 205. Whenever official notice is received at the Department of State that any amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been adopted, according to the provisions of the Constitution, the Secretary of State shall forthwith cause the amendment to be published in the newspapers authorized to promulgate the laws, with his certificate, specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States. -- Revised Statutes, 1878.

H. J. Res. 1.

Sixty-Sixth Congress of the United States of America; At the First Session.

Begun and held at the City of Waashington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women.

Resolved by the Senate and House Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein). That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and puposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.

"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."

F. H. GILLETTT. Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOS. R. MARSHALL. Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.

No. 3791

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

I certify that the copy hereto attached is a true copy of a resolution of Congress, entitiled "Joint Resolution Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women." the original of which is on file in this Department.

In testimony whereof, I, FRANK L. POLK, Acting Secretary of State, have hereunto caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed and my name subsribed by the Chief Clerk of the said Department, at the City of Washington, this twelfth day of June, 1919.

Frank L. Polk Acting Secretary of State

By Bell G Davis Chief Clerk