AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, 1933 HENRY L. STIMSON SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: February 6, 1933. Twentieth Amend. ment to the Constitu Preamble. KNOW YE, That the Congress of the United States, at the first session, seventy-second Congress begun at the City of Washington on tion. Monday, the seventh day of December, in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, passed a Joint Resolution in the words and figures as follows: to wit JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States fixing the commencement of the terms of President and Vice President and Members of Congress and fixing the time of the assembling of Congress. p. 745. pro Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Amendment States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House Pontetates. concurring therein), That the following amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become valid as a part of said Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided in the Constitution: "ARTICLE "SECTION 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. "SEC. 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. Succession if President elect dies before Acting President if "SEC. 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect term begins. shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen President elect fails to before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President qualify. elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. Power of Congress to "SEC. 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death provide for succession. of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. 2569 Effective date of sections 1 and 2. Inoperative, if not ratified in seven years. States ratifying proposed Amendment. Declaration. Certificate of adoption as part of the Constitution. U. S. C., p. 37. "SEC. 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article. "SEC. 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission." And, further, that it appears from official documents on file in the Department of State that the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed as aforesaid has been ratified by the Legislatures of the States of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. And, further, that the States whose Legislatures have so ratified the said proposed Amendment, constitute more than the requisite three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States. Now, therefore, be it known that I, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of Section 160, Title 5, of the United States Code, 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 TESTIMONY 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 sixth day of February, in [SEAL] the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three. Exchange of notes between the United States and the Dominion of Canada concerning quarantine inspection of vessels entering Puget Sound and waters adjacent thereto or the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence River. Signed October 10 and 23, 1929. The Secretary of State for External Affairs to the American Minister DEPARTMENT OF October 10, 1929. No. 132 SIR, OTTAWA, 10th October, 1929 tion of foreign vessels Agreement with Can With reference to your note No. 480 of the 30th September, inti- Quarantine inspecmating that the Public Health authorities of your Government were in certain waters. agreeable to an exchange of notes for the purpose of establishing an ada for mutual acceptarrangement between our Governments to provide for the acceptance ance of. by each Government of the quarantine inspection of the other in respect of vessels from foreign ports entering Puget Sound and adjacent waters or the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence River, in the terms suggested in my note No. 45 of the 2nd May last, I have the honour to state that His Majesty's Government in Canada is prepared, in accordance with the provisions of Articles 56 and 57 of Vol. 45, p. 2512. the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris the 21st June, 1926, to agree with the Government of the United States of America that vessels from foreign ports destined for both Canadian and United States ports located on the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Haro, Rosario, Georgia, Puget Sound, or their tributaries or connected waters, or so destined to ports on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River shall undergo quarantine inspection by the quarantine officers of that Government having jurisdiction over the primary port of arrival, and when cleared from quarantine in accordance with the provisions of the said International Sanitary Convention shall receive free pratique, the document granting such pratique to be issued in duplicate, that the original shall be presented upon entry at the primary port of arrival, and that the duplicate shall be presented to the proper quarantine officers upon secondary arrival and entry at the first port under the jurisdiction of the other Government, and shall be accepted by that Government without the formality of quarantine re-inspection, provided that cases of quarantinable disease have not been prevalent in the ports visited and have not occurred on board the vessel since the granting of the original pratique, and provided further that the observance of the provisions of Article 28 of the said Convention shall not be modified by such agreement. It will be understood that on the receipt of a note from you expressing your Government's concurrence in this agreement, it shall become effective and the necessary administrative steps in connection with its operation shall be taken. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. For Secretary of State for External Affairs. The Honourable WILLIAM PHILLIPS Minister of the United States of America United States Legation, Ottawa 3051°-33-PT 2-61 |