VIII. In civil actions between citizens of different states, every issue of fact arising in actions at common law, shall be tried by a jury, if the parties or either of them request it. IX. Congress shall at no time consent that any person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States shall accept of a title of nobility, or any other title or office, from any king, prince, or foreign state. And the convention do, in the name and in behalf of the people of this commonwealth, enjoin it upon their representatives in Congress at all times, until the alterations and provisions aforesaid have been considered agreeably to the fifth article of the said constitution, to exert all their influence, and use all reasonable and legal methods to obtain a ratification of the said alterations and provisions, in such manner as is provided in the said article. And that the United States in Congress assembled may have due notice of the assent and ratification of the said constitution by this convention, it is Resolved, That the assent and ratification aforesaid be engrossed on parchment, together with the recommendation and injunction aforesaid, and with this resolution; and that his excellency John Hancock, Esq. president, and the honourable William Cushing, Esq. vice president of this convention, transmit the same, countersigned by the secretary of the convention, under their hands and seals, to the United States, in Congress assembled. JOHN HANCOCK, President. WILLIAM CUSHING, Vice President. GEORGE RICHARDS MINOT, Sec'ry. Pursuant to the resolution aforesaid, we the president and vice president above named, do hereby transmit to the United States in Congress assembled, the same resolution, with the above assent and ratification of the constitution aforesaid, for the United States, and the recommendation and injunction above specified. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, at Boston, in the commonwealth aforesaid, this seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and in the twelfth year of the independence of the United States of America.... JOHN HANCOCK, President. [L. S.] STATE OF GEORGIA. In Convention, Wednesday, January the second, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: WHEREAS the form of a constitution for the government of the United States of America, was, on the seventeenth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, agreed upon and reported to Congress by the deputies of the said United States convened in Philadelphia, which said constitution is written in the words following, to wit: And whereas, the United States in Congress assem bled did, on the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, Resolve unanimously, “That the said report, with the resolu❝tions and letter accompanying the same, be trans"mitted to the several legislatures, in order to be sub"mitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each "state by the people thereof, in conformity to the re"solves of the convention made and provided in that "case." And whereas, the legislature of the state of Georgia, did, on the twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, in pursuance of the above recited resolution of Congress, Resolve, That a convention be elected on the day of the next general election, and in the same manner as representatives are elected; and that the said convention consist of not more than three members from each county; and that the said convention should meet at Augusta, on the fourth Tuesday in December then next, and as soon thereafter as convenient, proceed to consider the said report, letter, and resolutions, and to adopt or reject any part or the whole thereof. Now know ye, that we, the delegates of the people of the state of Georgia in convention met, pursuant to the resolutions of the legislature aforesaid, having taken into our serious consideration the said constitution, have assented to, ratified and adopted, and by these presents do, in virtue of the powers and authority to us given by the people of the said state for that purpose, for, and in behalf of ourselves and our constitu ents, fully and entirely assent to, ratify and adopt the said constitution. Done in convention, at Augusta, in the said state, on the second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and of the independence of the United States the twelfth.-In witness whereof we haye hereunto subscribed our names. JOHN WEREAT, President, And delegate for the county of Richmond. County of Greene, Robert Christmas, R. Middleton. MARYLAND. In Convention of the Delegates of the People of the State of Maryland. April 28, 1788. WE the delegates of the people of the state of Maryland, having fully considered the constitution of the United States of America, reported to Congress by the convention of deputies from the United States of America, held in Philadelphia, on the seventeenth day of September, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven, of which the annexed is a copy, and submitted to us by a resolution of the general assembly of Maryland, in November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, do, for ourselves, and in the name and on the behalf of the people of this state, assent to and ratify the said constitution. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names. Richard Barnes, Charles Chilton, N. Lewis Sewall, William Tilghman, Donaldson Yeates, GEO. PLATER, President. Isaac Perkins, William Granger, |