The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-03
The TWIN STATES.
North and South Dakota. are
Admitted.
HARRIsoN's TWO PROCLAMATIoNs
Blaine's kilograms to Governors Milfett and
Miller-The Provisions of the Enabling
Act Compiled With.

WASHINGTON, Nov 2.-The following dis
patch was sent from the executive mansion
this afternoon by Secretary Blaine: "Tc
Governors Mellette and Miller, North and
South Dakota. The latest act in the ad
mission of the two Dakotas as states into
the union was completed this afternoon al
the executive mansion at o'clock and II
minutes, by the President signing at thai
moment the proclamation required by law
for the admission of the two states. The
article on prohibition was submitted sepa
rately in each state, and was adopted in
both. The article providing for minority
representation in South Dakota was re
iected by the people. This is the first in
stance in the history of the national gov.
eminent of twin states, North and South
Dakota, to enter the union at the same
moment. Signed, James G.. Blaine"
The following is the text of the procla-
nation admitting North Dakota: "By the
President of the United States of America.
clamation-Whercas, the Congress of
the United States, did by an act approved
on the 22nd day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and eightv-nine, provide
that the inhabitants of the territory of
Dakota might upon the conditions pre-
scribed in said act, become the states of
North Dakota ard South Dakota;
And, Wheer-s, it was provided by said
act that the area comprising the territory
of Dakota should, for the purposes of the
act, be divided on the line of the seventh
standard parallel, and due west to western
boundary line of the territory and the dele
gates elected as therein provided TO
the constitutional convention in the dis
taicJs north OF said parallel should assem-
BILE in convention. at prescribed in the act, at
the city of Bismark;
And, Whereas. it was provided by said
act that the delegates elected IS aforesaid
should. after they had met aud organized,
Dakota that they adopt the constitution of
the United States, Whereupon said conven-
ton should be authorized 10 form a consti-
tuition and state government for the pro-
posed state of North Dakota;
And, Whereas, it was provided by the said
act that the constitution so adopted should
be republican in form and make
no distinction in civil OF political rights on
account of race or color, except as 10
Indians not taxed, and not to be repugnant
to the constitution of the United States,
and the princi pies of the Declaration OF
Independence, and the convention should
by ordinance irrevocable without the con-
sent of the United States and the people of
said states, make certain provisions, pre-
scribcd in said act:
And Whereas, it was provided by said
act that the constitutions of North Dakota
and South Dakota should, respectively, in
corporate an agreement 10 be reached in
accordance with the provisions of the act
for an equitable division OF all public re
cords and also for the appointment of the
debts and liabilities of said territory, and
that each of said states should obligate
itself to pay its proportion OF such debts
and liabilities the sa ne as if they had been
created by such states respectively;
And, Whereas, it is provided by said act
that the constitution thus formed for the
people of North Dakota should by ordin-
ance of the convention forming the same
be submitted to the people of North
Dakota at an election to be held therein on
the first Tuesday in O;fo6er, l $50, Tor the
ratification or rejection by qualified voters
of the proposed state, and that the returns
of the said election should be made TO the
Sc ,retary of the territory CT Dakota who,
with the governor ana chief justice therein,
or any of them, should canvass the same
and if a majority of the legal votes cast
should be for the constitution, the governor
should ceroify the results to the President
of the United States, together with state
separate articles or propositions and a copy
Of said constitution, articles, propositions
and ordinances;
And, Whereas, it has been certified to me
by the governor of the territory of Dakota
that within the time prescribed by said act
of Congress, the constitution for the pro-
posed state of North Dakota has been
adopted, and the same ratified by major
ity of the qualified voters of said proposed
~
prescribed in said act;
And. Whereas, it is also certified to me
by said governor that at the said time that
a copy of the same constitution was sub
mittcd to vote of the people on separate
article No 20, entitled Prohibition was
also submitted and received majority of
all the votes cast for and against said arti-
Gle, as well as a majority of all the votes
cast for and against the constitution, and
was adnntPd:
And, Whereas, duly authenticated copy
OF said constitution, ordnance and PROPOSE
ton as required by said act has been re-
Gel ed by me;
Now, therefore. I Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do, in accordance with the provisions of
the act of Congress aforesaid, declare and
proclaim the fact that the conditions i'm
posed by CONGRESS on the state of North
Dakota to entltie that state to admission
into the union have been ratified and ac-
copied, and that the admission OF said state
is now complete.
In testimony VIII aTeof l have hereuuto
set my hand and eau ied the seal of the
United States to be ~tfiXed. Done at the
city OF Washington this second day of
November in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nint
and o. the indepen lance Of tie United { t IT. s
of America one hundred AMI fJuroeeat
[SEALl BENJAMIN HARRISON.
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.
BY the President.