TONA Research Committee - Table Of Official Publications

This table presents the data and images of the TONA Research Committee archival discoveries of State and Territorial Publications published between 1816 through 1876 that show the inclusion of the 13th Titles of Nobility and Honour Amendment to the Constitution for the United States. As each year has gone by the Committee has found more publications.

If you are interested you can click on each of the underlined publication dates to view the images. [Some remain yet to be scanned.]

State	Ratification Date	Frontis Page	Amendment Page
Delaware	Feb. 2, 1811
Pennsylvania	Feb. 6, 1811	1818, 1824, 1831	1818, 1824, 1831
New Jersey	Feb. 13, 1811
Georgia	Dec. 13, 1811
Connecticut	Rejected May 11,1813	1821, 1824,1835,1839	1821, 1824,1835,1839
Massachusetts	Feb. 27, 1812	1816, 1823	1816, 1823
Maryland	Dec. 25, 1810
South Carolina	Tabled - No Action Taken Dec. 21, 1814
New Hampshire	Dec. 9, 1812
Virginia	Mar. 12, 1819	1819	1819
New York	Rejected May 1, 1813	New York published but date is unknown
North Carolina	Dec. 23, 1811	1819, 1821, 1828	1819, 1821, 1828
Rhode Island	Rejected Sep. 15, 1814.	1822	1822
Vermont	Oct. 24, 1811
Kentucky	Jan. 31, 1811	1822	1822
Tennessee	Nov. 21, 1811
Ohio	Jan. 31, 1811	1819, 1824, 1831, 1833, 1835, 1848	1819, 1824, 1831, 1833, 1835, 1848
Ohio	Jan. 31, 1811	It is interesting to note that the Ohio 1833 volume was edited by Salmon P. Chase, subsequently Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War, and Supreme Court Chief Justice 1864-1873
Louisiana	Recognized	1825, 1855	1825, 1855
Indiana	Recognized	1824, 1831, 1838	1824, 1831, 1838
Indiana	The 1824 volume was Abe Lincoln's first law book, which he studied diligently from the time he was 18. He was very conversant of all the laws and statutes, including the U.S. Constitution and Amendments. Lincoln was very well aware of the 13th Titles of Nobility and Honors amendment. See these images Title Page, Page 32, Page 33, Page 34, Page 35
Mississippi	Recognized	1823, 1824, 1839	1823, 1824, 1839
Illinois	Recognized	1823, 1825, 1827, 1833, 1839, 1845	1823, 1825, 1827, 1833, 1839, 1845
Alabama	Not Known
Maine	The rediscovery document found by Dodge and Dunn in 1983 is the 1825 publication of the Constitutions of Maine and of the United States.
Maine	Recognized	1825, 1831	1825, 1831
Missouri	Recognized	1818, 1825, 1835, 1840, 1841, 1845	1818, 1825, 1835, 1840, 1841, 1845
Arkansas	Not Known
Michigan	Recognized	Terr. Publication 1827, 1833	Terr. Publication 1827, 1833
Florida	Recognized	Terr. Publication 1823, 1825, 1837	Terr. Publication 1823, 1825, 1837
Texas	Not Known
Iowa	Recognized	Terr. Publication 1839, 1843	Terr. Publication 1839, 1843
Wisconsin	Recognized	N.W. Terr. Publ. 1833	N.W. Terr. Publ. 1833
California	Not Known
Minnesota	Recognized	N.W. Terr. Publ. 1833	N.W. Terr. Publ. 1833
Oregon	Not Known
Kansas	Recognized	1855, 1861, 1862, 1868	1855, 1861, 1862, 1868
West Virginia	Not Known
Nevada	Not Known
Nebraska	Recognized	Territorial Publication 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862 State Publication 1873	Territorial Publication 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862 State Publication 1873,
Colorado	Recognized	Territorial Publication 1861, 1862, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868 Spanish 1867	Territorial Publication 1861, 1862, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868 Spanish 1867
North Dakota	Recognized	Territorial Publication 1862, 1863, 1867	Territorial Publication 1862, 1863, 1867
South Dakota	Recognized	Territorial Publication 1862, 1863, 1867	Territorial Publication 1862, 1863, 1867
Montana	Not Known
Washington	Not Known
Idaho	Not Known
Wyoming	Recognized	Territorial Publication 1870, 1876	Territorial Publication 1870, 1876

In September, 2002, the TONA Research Committee acquired the book "Military Laws of the United States to which is prefixed the Constitution of the United States", authorized by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, compiled by Major Trueman Cross, Deputy Quarter-Master-General of the Army, published in Washington in 1825. It contains the 13th Amendment in its proper place.[Frontis Page], [Request for Authorization], [Authorization by JCC], [Image of Page 14, Amendments 1 - VI], [Image of Page 15, Amendments VI(Cont) - XII], [Image of XII(Cont) and XIII]

Of note also, the 2nd Amendment [Image of Page 14, Article II] is properly presented as ratified and as shown in all presentations until after the time of the Civil War and Reconstruction, without the extra commas after the words "Militia" and "Arms". The only source properly presented today is that for the United States Senate on the United States Government Printing Office site at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt2.html

The TONA Research Committee is in physical possession of certified images of the 13th Amendment as presented in all the above publications or of the publications themselves.

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