Chap. 428.—A JOINT RESOLUTION ratifying a proposed amendment to the
Constitution of the United States. _ {S B 1}

Signed January 14, 1918.

Whereas, both houses of the sixty-fifth congress of the United
States of America, by a constitutional majority of two-thirds there-
of, made the following proposition to amend the Constitution of the
United States of America, in the following words, to-wit:

“JOINT RESOLUTION”

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

1. Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the
United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of each
house concurring therein), That the following amendment to the
Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become
valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures
of the several States as provided by the Constitution:

“ARTICLE”

“Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article
the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors with-
in, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the
United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for
beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.”

“Sec. 2. The congress and several States shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

“Sec. 38. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment: to the Constitution by the legislatures
of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven
years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the
congress,”

Therefore, be it resolved by the senate and house of delegates of
Virginia:

Section 1. That the said proposed amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States of America be, and the same is hereby,
ratified by the general assembly of the State of Virginia.

Sec. 2. That certified copies of this preamble and joint resolu-
tion be forwarded by the secretary of the Commonwealth to the
secretary of State at Washington, to the presiding officer of the
United States senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives
of the United States.