Oregon, December 11, 1865. California, December 20, 1865. Florida, December 28, 1865. New Jersey, January 23, 1866. Iowa, January 24, 1866. Texas, February 18, 1870. The fourteenth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several States, there being then thirty-seven States, by a resolution of Congress passed on the 16th of June, 1866, at the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress; and was ratified, according to proclamation of the Secretary of State dated July 28, 1868, by the Legislatures of the following States: Connecticut, June 30, 1866. New Hampshire, July 7, 1866. Tennessee, July 19, 1866. [503]New Jersey, September 11, 1866. [504]Oregon, September 19, 1866. Vermont, November 9, 1866. New York, January 10, 1867. [505]Ohio, January 11, 1867. Illinois, January 15, 1867. West Virginia, January 16, 1867. Kansas, January 18, 1867. Maine, January 19, 1867. Nevada, January 22, 1867. Missouri, January 26, 1867. Indiana, January 29, 1867. Minnesota, February 1, 1867. Rhode Island, February 7, 1867. Wisconsin, February 13, 1867. Pennsylvania, February 13, 1867. Michigan, February 15, 1867. Massachusetts, March 20, 1867. Nebraska, June 15, 1867. Iowa, April 3, 1868. Arkansas, April 6, 1868. Florida, June 9, 1868. [506]North Carolina, July 4, 1868. Louisiana, July 9, 1868. [506]South Carolina, July 9, 1868. Alabama, July 13, 1868. [506]Georgia, July 21, 1868. Mississippi, January 17, 1870. Texas, February 18, 1870. [506]Virginia ratified this amendment on the 8th of October, 1869, subsequent to the date of the proclamation of the Secretary of State. Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky rejected the amendment. The fifteenth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several States, there being then thirty-seven States, by a resolution of Congress passed on the 27th of February, 1869, at the first session of the Forty-first Congress; and was ratified, according to a proclamation of the Secretary of State dated March 30, 1870, by the Legislatures of the following States: