Independence 



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soon as can conveniently be done, make provision for these 

 purposes by the appropriation of money. 



Section i6. The existing regulations of the American 

 Colonisation Society in the commonwealth relative to emigrants 

 shall remain the same in the republic : nevertheless, the legislature 

 shall make no law prohibiting emigration. 



Section 17. This Constitution may be altered whenever two- 

 thirds of both branches of the legislature shall deem it necessary ; 

 in which case the alterations and amendments shall first be 

 considered and approved by the legislature by the concurrence 

 of two-thirds of the members of each branch, atid afterwards 

 by them submitted to the people, and adopted by two- thirds 

 of all the electors at the next biennial meeting for the election 

 of senators and representatives. 



Done in convention at Monrovia, in the county of 

 Montserrado, by the unanimous consent of the people of the 

 commonwealth of Liberia this twenty-sixth day of July, in the 

 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven 

 and of the republic the first. 



Li witness whereof we have hereto set our names. 



S. Benedict, PresidenT 



J. N. Lewis, 



H. Teage, Montserrado 



Beverly R. Wilson, | County 



Elijah Johnson, 



J. B. Gripon, 



John Day, 



A. W. Gardner, Grand "Basa 



Amos Herring, County 



Ephraim Titler,, 



R. E. Murray, County of Sim. 



J. W, Vko\jt, Secretary of Convention, 

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