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16th Amendment

Text of 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Assembly Joint Resolution, No. 2

State of New Jersey

 
JJoint Resolution ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. The amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed at the second session of the sixty-first Congress, by a resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, to the several State Legislatures, be and the same is hereby, upon the part of this Legislature, ratified and made a part of the Constitution of the United States of America, said amendment having been approved on the fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and is in the following words, to wit:
“Article XVI. The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”
Approved
5 Feb’y, 1913
Woodrow Wilson, Governor   [pg.1]

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY No. ___
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY,
1/27th 1913
This bill having been three times read in the House of Assembly,
RESOLVED, That the same do pass.
By order of the House of Assembly.
Leon R. Taylor, Speaker of the House of Assembly  
 
SENATE,
Feby 4 1913
This bill having been three times read and compared in the Senate,
RESOLVED, That the same do pass.
By order of the Senate.
James F. Fielder, President of the Senate  [pg. 2]

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