The PRESIDENT protempore laid before the Senate the following communication from the Governor of the State of Kentucky: ExECUTIVE OFFICE, FRANKFort, ICENTUcky, January 14, 1867. Hon. President U.S. Senate: In obedience to the requirements thereof. I here with transmit to you “resolutions in regard to proposed the amendment of the Constitution of the Uni tKeedntSutcaktye, s, ” adopted by the General Assembly of now in Respectfully, sesTsHioOn.MAS E. BRAMLETTo Governor. Resolutions in regard to of the Constitution of the U.S. amendment Whereas the Congressof the U.S. did, at the 1st session of the 39th Congress, propose to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the U.S., the following: ARTICLE XIV. Srction 1. All persons born or, naturalized in the U.S., and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the U.S and of State wherein they reside. No the State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of shall any State deprive any person U.S. iftea, telisb;erntoyr, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Sec. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to bers, counting their respectivenum the whole number of persons in State, excluding each Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of elect 9rs for President and VEEP, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being 21 years of age, and citizens of the U.S., or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basisof representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such State. Seq. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President, President and Vice or hold any office, civil or military, under the U.S., or under any State, who having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the U.S., or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial, officer of any State, to support the Constitution 9f the U.S., shall have engaged in insurrection or, rebellion against the game, or given aid or oomfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of 2/3rds of each House, remove such disability. Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of States, the U.S. authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensionsand bounties for services in.insurrection or rebellion, shall not be nestionef. But neither the U.S. nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation in.curred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the U.S., or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void. Sec. 5. That Congress shall have power to enforce, oppropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. And whereas the same has been officially laid be TfohreerethfoisreL, legislature for its consideration and action: be it 1. Resolved by the general Assembly of the common wealth of Kentucky, That the proposition to amend the Constitution of the U.S. as the same aforesaidbe, and is hereby, rejected. 2. Resolved. That the Governor, be requested to notify the proper depts of the U.S. Government of this action of the Kentucky legislature in regard to said Proment. Speaker of the HoRep. RICHARD T. JACOBS, Speaker of the Senate. Approved 10thJanTuaoryS, 1'8E67. BRAMLETTE Governor of Kentucky. By the Governor: John S. WAN WINKLE, SecyState. The communication and accompanying resolutions were ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.