Democratic (socialist/proto-fascist) Governor Edmond F. Noel, of the confederate State of Mississippi, transmits to Philander Chase Knox, Secretary of State, that the Mississippi legislature has passed House Joint Resolution 14, which does not ratify the unlawfully proposed 16th amendment to the Constitution for the united States, as it voted to pass modified text.  Senate Joint Resolution 40 as it was allegedly passed by the Republican (proto-fascist/socialist) 61st Constitutional Congress (elected in accordance with Article I, Section 3 [Clause 1]) read as:

       The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. 

But what the legislature passed contained the following errors:

       The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes[comma deleted] from whatever source derived[comma deleted] without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census of enumeration:

An amendment proposed by Congress may not be amended.  It may only be voted up or down.

       Postscript: On February 25, 1913, Philander Chase Knox, Secretary of State, falsely recorded Mississippi as the fourth State to have ratified the purported 16th amendment.

       NOTES:

• There is strong evidence to support the claim that members of the legislature who had financial and/or substance abuse problems were bribed into changing their votes from “NAY” to “YEA.”
• This is the further realization of plank number two of the “Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx.

       [restored 6/3/2022]