Declaration.And, further, that the States whose Legislatures have so ratified the said proposed Amendment, constitute three fourths of the whole number of States in the United States.
Certificate of adoption as part of the Constitution.
R. S., sec. 205, p. 33.Now therefore, be it known that I, Frank L. Polk, Acting Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of Section 205 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby certify that the Amendment aforesaid has become valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution of the United States.
IN TESTEMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 29th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.[SEAL.]
Frank L. Polk
Acting Secretary of State.
