rvice, within the
United States, according to the laws or usages of the State
from which such persons may be taken, nor to impair the
rights arising out of said relations, which shall be subject
to judicial cognizance in the Federal Courts according to
the common law; and when any Territory north or south of
said line, within such boundary as Congress may prescribe,
shall contain a population required for a member of
Congress, according to the then Federal ratio of
representation, it shall, if its form of government be
republican, be admitted into the Union on an equal footing
with the original States, with or without involuntary
service or labor, as the constitution of such new State may
provide.

ART. 2. Territory shall not be acquired by the United
States, unless by treaty, nor except for naval and
commercial stations and depots, unless such treaty shall be
ratified by four-fifths of all the members of the Senate.

ART. 3. Neither the Constitution nor any amendment thereof
shall be construed to give Congress power to regulate,
abolish, or control, within any State or Territory of the
United States, the relation established or recognized by the
laws thereof touching persons bound to labor or involuntary
service therein, nor to interfere with or abolish
involuntary service in the District of Columbia without the
consent of Maryland, and without the consent of the owners,
or making the owners who do not consent just compensation;
nor the power to interfere with or prohibit representatives
and others from bringing with them to the City of
Washington, retaining, and taking away persons so bound to
labor; nor the power to interfere with, or abolish
involuntary service in places under the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States, within those States and
Territories where the same is established or recognized; nor
the power to prohibit the removal or transportation by land,
sea, or river, of persons held to labor or involuntary
service in any State or Territory of the United States to
any other State or Territory thereof where it is established
or recognized by law or usage; and the right during
transportation of touching at ports, shores, and landings,
and of landing in case of distress, shall exist, nor shall
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