UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Territory of New Mexico:

I, W. F. M. Arny, secretary and acting governor of New Mexico, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original, which is on file in my office, as passed by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico at the present session.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my offi cial seal, this 22d day of January, A. D. 1867. [SEAL.]

W. F. M. ARNY,

Secretary and Acting Governor New Mexico.

Losses sustained by the citizens of the Territory during the revolution of 1847, and by Indian depredations, from the arrival and formal taking possession of the Territory by General Stephen W. Kearney.

FEBRUARY 18, 1867.-Referred to the Committee on the Territories and ordered to be printed.

To the honorable the Congress of the United States of America :

Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, would respectfully represent that in 1847, by a revolution and by Indian depredations since that period, many of our citizens have met with loss of life and

property.

By the reports which are on file in the office of the secretary of the Territory, the loss of life and property is as follows: 123 persons killed, 32 persons wounded, 21 persons taken captive. Property stolen: 3,559 horses, mules, and asses, 13,473 head of cattle, and 294,740 head of sheep and goats, valued at the total sum of ($1,377,329 60) one million three hundred and seventy-seven thousand three hundred and twenty nine dollars and sixty cents.

In 1847, when General Kearney took possession of New Mexico, in his proclamation to the people he promised, on the part of the United States, protection to our people against such losses, and the government of the United States solemnly ratified that promise afterwards by treaty.

Nearly twenty years have expired since our Territory was received as such by weaty, and the protection of the United States pledged to us, and during all that number of years our people have been suffering unceasingly from the loss of life and property occasioned by the incursions made upon them by the tribes of hostile Indians, notwithstanding the vigilance and efforts of ourselves and the troops of the government.

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Such has been the condition of affairs in this Territory for a series of years; and although some provisions have been made by the Congress of the United States to reimburse such of our citizens as have been robbed, by the savages, their property, it has as yet been found impracticable, on account of the complicated requisites of the law on the subject, for those who have suffered the loss to comply with the requirements of the law, in making up their claims for indemnification.

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Your memorialists, in view of the facts above mentioned, and the impossibility of remedying them under existing laws, would most respectfully request that a sufficient appropriation be made by your honorable body to indemnify the suf ferers, and that a board of commissioners be created, to consist of three appointed by the honorable Secretary of the Interior Department, to hear the complaints of our people, to examine the testimony presented to establish the losses our citizens have suffered by the revolution of 1847, and the Indian depredations since that period, and to report to the Secretary of the Interior De partment the amount that should be paid to the people of New Mexico, so that those who are rightfully entitled may receive their just dues.

And your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

Resolved by the council, (the house of representatives concurring therein.) That the honorable secretary of the Territory be, and is hereby, requested to forward certified copies of the foregoing to his Excellency the President of the United States, to the honorable Secretary of the Interior Department, to the honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the chairmen of the Committees on Indian Affairs in Congress, and to the Hon. J. Francisco Chaves, our delegate in Congress.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Territory of New Mexico.

I, W. F. M. Arny, secretary and acting governor of New Mexico, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original which is on file in my office, as passed by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico at its present session.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my cial-seal this 16th day of January, A. D. 1867.

[SEAL.]

W. F. M. ARNY, Secretary and Acting Governor New Mexico.

2d Session.

No. 68.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

RESOLUTION

OF

THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK,

IN RELATION TO

The proposed amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

FEBRUARY 15, 1867.-Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.

STATE OF NEW YORK, Office of the Secretary of State:

I, Francis C. Barlow, secretary of state of the State of New York, do hereby certify that the annexed is a true copy of a concurrent resolution of the legisla ture of this State, "ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States," passed January 10, 1867, as taken from the original on file in this

office.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and [SEAL.] affixed the great seal of the State of New York, the eleventh day of January, A. D. 1867.

FRANCIS C. BARLOW,
Secretary of State.

Whereas, at a session of the thirty-ninth Congress, it was

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as a part of the said Constitution, viz:

ARTICLE XIV.

SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor to deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the

law.

SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States accord

ing to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States. representatives in Congress, the executive or judicial officers of a State, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens, twenty-one years of age in such State.

SEC. 3. No person shall be a senator or representative in Congress, or elector of President or Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability.

SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States, nor any State, shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.

SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation. the provisions of this article: Therefore,

Resolved, (if the assembly concur,) That the said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States be, and the same is, hereby ratified by the legislature of the State of New York.