HCR5: recognizing New Hampshire's ratification of the original Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

HCR 5 – AS INTRODUCED

2005 SESSION

05-0217

09/10

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 5

A RESOLUTION recognizing New Hampshire’s ratification of the original Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

SPONSORS: Rep. Marple, Merr 9

COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

ANALYSIS

This house concurrent resolution recognizes New Hampshire’s ratification of the original Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

05-0217

09/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five

A RESOLUTION recognizing New Hampshire’s ratification of the original Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Whereas, on April 27, 1810 the United States Senate approved the resolution for the original Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; and

Whereas, on May 1, 1810, the United States House of Representatives approved the resolution for the original Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; and

Whereas, the Journal of the House of the November session of 1812 at pages 101 and 102 and the Journal of the Senate of the November session of 1812 at pages 85 and 86 record that the original Thirteenth Amendment was ratified by the New Hampshire general court on December 9, 1812; and

Whereas, there were 16 states existing in December of 1812 and New Hampshire was the twelfth state to ratify the amendment, thus gaining the vote necessary for ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment; and

Whereas, the text of the original Thirteenth Amendment as ratified by the New Hampshire general court reads as follows:

“If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any Emperor, King, Prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them or either of them;” and

Whereas, the principles of the Thirteenth Amendment are as important today as they were in 1812; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the New Hampshire general court recognizes that the original Thirteenth Amendment was properly ratified by the state of New Hampshire; and

That copies of this resolution be sent by the house clerk to the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the presiding officers of the legislatures of the other 49 states, and the New Hampshire congressional delegation.