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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1 BY MRS. HAYWARD.

A JOINT RESOLUTION RATIFYING AN AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, PROPOSED BY THE JOINT
RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES OF
THE UNITED STATES, PROVIDING THAT THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS
TO VOTE SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED ON ACCOUNT OF SEX.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF UTAH,
two-thirds of all members elected to each of the two
Houses concurring therein:

WHEREAS, the Senate and House Representatives of the
United States at the First Session of the Sixty-sixth Congress
of the United States of America, by House Joint Resolution No. 1,
proposed the following amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, to become valid as a part of the Constitution of the United
States when ratified by the Legislature of the several states as
provided by said Constitution.

ARTICLE.

The right of citizens of the United Staes to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account
of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce the article by
appropriate legislature.

WHEREAS, the State of Utah has always favored equal suffrage,
and many of its citizens, both men and women, through personal efforts,
and untiring energy, ahve labored for the adoption of suffrage
amendment to the Constitution of the United States:

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that said amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, be and the same is hereby
ratified and adopted by the Legislature of the State of Utah.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary of State of the
State of Utah, be, and he is hereby instructed to transmit forthwith
to the Secretary of State of the United States of America, a certified
copy of this resolution.