GOVERNMENT AND LAW. 



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by the United States or by any State on ac- 

 count of race, color, or previous condition of 

 servitude. 



2. The Congress shall have power to enforce 

 the provision of this article by appropriate 

 legislation. 



Ratification of the Constitution. 



The Constitution was ratified by the thir- 

 teen original States in the following order : 



Delaware, December 7, 1787, unanimously. 



Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787, vote 46 

 to 23. 



New Jersey, December 18, 1787, unani- 

 mously. 



Georgia, January 2, 1788, unanimously. 



Connecticut, January 9, 1788, vote 128 to 40. 



Massachusetts, February 6, 1788, vote 187 

 to 168. 



Maryland, April 28, 1788, vote 63 to 12. 



South Carolina, May 23, 1788, vote 149 to 73. 



New Hampshire, June 21, 1788, vote 57 

 to 46. 



Virginia, June 25, 1788, vote 89 to 79. 



New York, July 26, 1788, vote 30 to 28. 



North Carolina, November 21, 1789, vote 

 193 to 75. 



Rhode Island, May 29, 1790, vote 34 to 32. 



Ratification of the Amendments. 



I. to X. inclusive were declared in force De- 

 cember 15, 1791. 



XI. was declared in force January 8, 1798. 



XII., regulating elections, was ratified by 

 all the States except Connecticut, Delaware, 

 Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, which 

 rejected it. It was declared in force Septem- 

 ber 28, 1804. 



XIII. The emancipation amendment was rat 

 ified by 31 of the 36 States ; rejected by Dela- 

 ware and Kentucky, not acted on by Texas; 

 conditionally ratified by Alabama sfad Missis- 

 sippi. Proclaimed December 18, 1865. 



XIV. Reconstruction amendment was rati- 

 fied by 23 Northern States ; rejected by Dela- 

 ware, Kentucky, Maryland, and 10 Southern 

 States, and not acted on by California. The 

 10 Southern States subsequently ratified under 

 pressure. Proclaimed July 28, 1886. 



XV. Negro citizenship amendment was not 

 acted on by Tennessee, rejected by California, 

 Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, 

 and Oregon ; ratified by the remaining 30 

 States. New York rescinded its ratification 

 January 5, 1870. Proclaimed March 30, 1870. 



COPYRIGHT LAW OF THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



1. A printed copy of the title (besides the 

 two copies to be deposited after publication) 

 of the book, map, chart, dramatic or musical 



composition, engraving, cut, print, or photo- 

 graph, or a description of the painting, draw- 

 ing, chromo, statue, statuary, or model or de- 

 sign for a work of the fine arts, for which 

 copyright is desired, must be sent by mail or 

 otherwise, prepaid, addressed "Librarian of 

 Congress, Washington, D. C." This must be 

 done before publication of the book or other 

 article. 



The printed title required may be a copy of 

 the title page of such publications as have 

 title pages. In other cases, the litle must be 

 printed expressly for copyright entry, with 

 name of claimant of copyright. The style of 

 type is immaterial, and the print of a type- 

 writer will be accepted. But a separate title 

 is required for each entry, and each title must be 

 printed on paper as large as commercial note. 

 The title of a periodical must include the date 

 and number. 



2. The legal fee for recording each copy- 

 right claim is 50 cents, and for a copy of this 

 record (or certificate of copyright) an addi- 

 tional fee of 50 cents is required. The record 

 fee from aliens and non-residents is $1. 



3. On or before the day of publication of 

 each book or other article, two complete copies 

 of the best edition issued must be sent, to per- 

 fect the copyright, with the address " Librarian 

 of Congress, Washington, D. C." The postage 

 must be prepaid, or else the publication in- 

 closed in parcels covered by printed Penalty 

 Labels, furnished by the Librarian. In the 

 case of a book, photograph, chromo or litho- 

 graph, the two copies deposited shall be printed 

 from type set in the United States, or from, 

 plates made therefrom, or from negatives or 

 drawings on stone made in the United States, 

 or from transfers made therefrom. 



4. No copyright is valid unless notice is 

 given by inserting in every copy published, on 

 the title page or the page following it, if it be 

 a book ; or, if a map, chart, musical composi- 

 tion, print, cut, engraving, photograph, paint- 

 ing, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or 

 model or design intended to be perfected as a 

 work of the fine arts, by inscribing upon some 

 portion thereof, or on the substance on which 

 the same is mounted, the following words, 

 viz. : " Entered according to act of Congress, 



in the year , by , in the office of the 



Librarian of Congress, at Washington," or, at 

 the option of the person entering the copy- 

 right, the words : " Copyright, 18 , by ." 



The law imposes a penalty of $100 upon 

 any person who has not obtained copyright 

 who shall insert the notice ' ' Entered according 

 to act of Congress," or " Copyright," etc., or 

 words of the same import, in or upon any book 

 or other article. 



