HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1.
Extraordinary Session 1920.
(Adopted March 10, 1920.)
Ratifying the proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States, extending the right of suffrage to women.
WHEREAS, The Sixty-sixth Congress of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, in both houses, by a constitutional majority of two-thirds of each house thereof, has made the following proposition to amend the constitution of the United States of America in the following words, to-wit:
"JOINT RESOLUTION - Proposing an amendment to the constitution extending the right of suffrage to women.
Resolved by the. Senate and House, of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein),
That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the constitution when ratified bv the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.
The right of citizens of the United States 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 this article by appropriate legislation." Therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the said proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States of America be and the same is hereby ratified by the legislature of the state of West Virginia.
Resolved, That certified copies of the foregoing preamble and resolution of ratification be forwarded by the governor of the state of West Virginia to the President of the United States, to the secretary of state of the United States, to the president of the United States Senate, and the the speaker of the United States house of represeintatives. [sic]