Constitution of
the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as part of said Constitution, when ratified by
conventions of three-fourths of the several States:

ARTICLE 1. In all the territory of the United States now
held or hereafter acquired, situate north of latitude 36 deg.
30', slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime, is prohibited, while such territory
shall remain under territorial government. In all the
territory south of said line of latitude, slavery of the
African race is hereby recognized as existing, and shall not
be interfered with by Congress; but shall be protected as
property by all the departments of the territorial
government during its continuance; and when any Territory,
north or south of said line, within such boundaries as
Congress may prescribe, shall contain the population
requisite for a member of Congress, according to the then
Federal ratio of representation of the people of the United
States, 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 slavery, as the
constitution of such new States may provide.

ARTICLE 2. Congress shall have no power to abolish slavery
in places under its exclusive jurisdiction, and situate
within the limits of States that permit the holding of
slaves.

ARTICLE 3. Congress shall have no power to abolish slavery
within the District of Columbia, so long as it exists in the
adjoining States of Virginia and Maryland, or either, nor
without the consent of the inhabitants, nor without just
compensation first made to such owners of slaves as do not
consent to such abolishment. Nor shall Congress at any time
prohibit officers of the Federal Government or members of
Congress, whose duties require them to be in said District,
from bringing with them their slaves, and holding them, as
such, during the time their duties may require them to
remain there, and afterwards taking them from the District.

ARTICLE 4. Congress shall have no power to prohibit or
hinder the transportation of slaves from one State to
another, or to a Territory in which slaves are by law
permitted to be held, whether that transportation be by
land, navigable r