[495] Idem.
[496] In the original the clauses are not numbered, nor is there any title to the document. It begins, “We the People.”
[497] See Amendments XIII., XIV., XV., XVI.
[498] See Amendment XVII.
[499] See Amendment XII.
[500] See Amendment XI.
[501] See Amendments XIII., XIV., XV.
[502] The word, “the,” being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, The Word “Thirty” being partly written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words “is tried” being interlined between the thirty-second and thirty-third Lines of the first Page and the Word “the” being interlined between the forty-third and forty-fourth Lines of the second Page.
[503] New Jersey withdrew her consent to the ratification on March 27, 1868.
[504] Oregon withdrew her consent to the ratification October 15, 1868.