Labels:text | document | handwriting | black and white | letter | paper | ink OCR: CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. ma HOUSEREPRESENTATIVES, Monday, a4th Augu,f, 178g, ESOLVED, AT THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, two thirds of boch Houfes dessus That the following Articles be propafed to the Legliatar. of the feveral States, as Amendments 10 the Coalltutich of the United States, all or any of which Articles, whengat fed by three fourths of the faid Legiflatures, to be valid to all faid Conftivation-Viz enes and purposes as part of the ARTICLES inaddition to, andlamendment of, the Conffitution of the United States of America, propoled by Congreh, and ratified by the Legriatures of the feveral States, parfuant to the fifth Arti- ek of the original Conflituticn. ARTICLE THE FIRST. Afte ile lif aumeration, required by she,firft Article of the greatve for every thirty thought faad, until the number frauen outil id' one hundredionfanand the proportion lhall be fo regulated by i agree, that there fhall be net Iels than one hundred Reprefe prefentanve for every forty thousand Zes. nur Jefa than one Re- ons, yatil the number of Representatives thall amount to two Indred, after which the pro- portion thall befo regulated by Congedla, that there shall not be leis than two hundred Reprefentitives, nof lelk than one Representative for every fifty thoufand perfons. ARTICLETHE SECOND Could No law varying the compenfation to the wicmbem-of Caugoals, tervened. Gall take efer, until an election of Representatives [hall have in- a ARTICLE TEX THIRD Congrefs fhall make no lav eftablibuis ARTICLE THE FOURTH. The Freedom of Speech- the-sale lischestudomini of the
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