the before specially-named States whose Le- gislatures have ratified the said proposed ammendment, constitute three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of the se

cond section of the act Of Congress approved

the 20th of April, 1818, entitled "an act to

provide for the publication of the laws of the