Resolutions proposing an article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States Resolved, by the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Kentucky ... that no law varying the compensation of the members of the Congress of the United States, shall take effect until the time for which the members of the House of Representatives of that Congress by which the law was passed, shall have expired (s.n, 1817)
"Resolved, that his excellency the lieutenant governor of this commonwealth, be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in Congress and that he also transmit to the executives of the several states like copies ..."--p. [1]. - McMurtrie, D.C. Kentucky, 643. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 41192. - Signed: John J. Crittenden, speaker of the House of Representatives. Edmd. Bullock, speaker of the Senate. Approved, January 17, 1817, by the lieutenant governor, Gabl. Slaughter. John Pope, sec'y. Secretary of State's office, August 23, 1817. The foregoing is truly copied from the enrolled resolutions in this office. Attest. [blank] sec'y. - The original, held by the Library of Congress, is signed in ms. by John Pope. Letter of transmittal signed in ms. by Gab. Slaughter, and addressed to the governor of Maryland. Gabriel Slaughter served as both governor and lieutenant governor during his term in office