Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-09-26
would give them majority Of eight
the senate.
Constitutional Convention.

iron-clad oath to be taken by all mem
bers and officers Of the legislature:
81 have not knowingly or intention
ally paid or contributed anything or
made any promise in the nature Of a
hrihe to directly or indirectly influence
any vote at the election at which was
chosen to fill said Office and have not
accepted nor will l accept or receive,
directly or indirectly, any money, pass,
or any other valuable thing, from any
corporation, company, or person, any
vote or influence may give or Withhold
on any bill. resolution or appropriation,
or for any other official act"
Refusal to take the above oath is to
work forfeiture of Office.
The committee on congressional ap.
portionment reported as follows:
Until otherwise provided for, the
member of congress to be elected ut
large The state senatorial districts are
as follows, each district being entitled to
one senator, except the Ninth, Twenty
fifth and Twenty-ninth, which are en-
titled TO two senators each: First dis
trict Union county; second. Clay third.
Yankton; fourth, Bonhomme; fifth,
Lincoln; sixth, Turner seventh Hutch
nson; eighth, Douglas and Charles
Mix; Ninth, Minnehah tenth, Brule,
Aurora and Jerauld twelfth. Dawson; ;
thirteenth, McCook and Hanson; four
teenth, Moody and Lake; fifteenth,
Sanborn and Minor; sixteenth, BrooS-
ings; seventeenth, Kingsbnry; eight
centh, Beadle; nineteenth, Hand and
Buffalo; twentieth, Coddington and
| Deuel.; twenty-frst, Clark and Hamlin ;
twenty second, Grant and Roberts ;
twenty-tbird, Marshall and Day TWEEN
tv-fourth, Sphinx; twenty.fitth, Brown,
and the territory north and south Of the
forty sixth parallel; twenty.sixth, Nc
Pherson, Edmunds and Faulk, and the
territory north and south of the forty
sixth parallel; twenty seventh, Wal
worth, Potter Sully and Campbell; TWEEN
ty-eighth, Hyde and Hughes; twenty
ninth, Lawrence and Butte thrtieth,
Pennington, Caster and Fall River"
Representative districts are numbered
up to 49, The Black Hills counties are
numbered and are entitlcn to the fol.
lowing representatives Forty fifth,
Fall River and Custer, 1 !; fortv-sixtl,
Pennington, / !; forty-sevcnth, Lawrence
4 forty-eighth, Butte |.
Following is the report Of the com
mittee on state seal and coat OF arms:
THE design Of the great seal shall be
as follows: A circle, within which shall
appear in the left foreground a smelling
furnace and other features of mining
work IN the left background a range oi
hills; in the right foreground farmer
at hie plow in the right background a
herd of cattle and field Of corn. Be-
tween the parts thus described shall APP
pear river bearing 4 steamboat Prop
erly divided between the upper and the
lower edges of the circle shall appear
the legend, "Under God the people
rule" which shall be the motto of the
State of Dakota Exterior to the circle
and within a circumscribed circle shall
appear in the upper part the word
state of Dakota" In the lower part
the words Great Seal" and the date in
Arabic numerals of the year in which
the state shall be admitted to the
Union"
The supreme court is the consist OF
three Judges, with power 20 increase the
number to FIVE, as occasion requires
the term of Office to be six years judges
to be elected from districts by popular
vote the state to be divided into three
districts, as follows:
First District--All that portion of the
state lying west of the Missouri river.
Second District-All that portion o.
the state lying east Of the Missouri and
west Of the Dakota river.
Third District--All that portion Of tn,
state lying east Of the Dakota river.
The state is to be divided into five
circuits, with a Judge for each, whose
term shall be four years aech count!
to have Judge with probate powers
term Of office two years.
AS to the location of the seat Of gov
ernment, the committee reported as fol
lows:
Section 3. The question Of the loca
tion Of temporary seat of government
shall be submitted to vote Of the
electors of the proposed state of Oak ota
, ia the same manner and at the same
election at which this constitution shal
be submitted. and the place receiving
!, the highest number Of votes cast on this
question shall be the temporary seat o
government until permanent seat o.
government shall be established, a.
hereinafter provided.
Sec 4. The legislature at its first ses
sion after the admission of this state
shall provide for the submission or the
question Of place for a permanent seat
of government to the qualified voters o
the state, and that place which receives
majority Of all the votes cast upon tina