The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-03-07

Hhy Do granted 70 any lndlan or lndlanb
under any act Of congress containing q
provision exempting the lands thus
granted from taxation; but said ordi-
nances shall provide that all such lands
shall be exempt from taxation by such
states 30 long and to such extent as such
act Of congress may prescribe.
Third. That the debts and liabilities Of
said territories shah be assumed and paid
by said states, respectively.
Fourth. That provision shall be made
for the establishment and maintenance Of
systems Of public schools, which shall be
open to all the children Of said states, and
free from sectarian control.
Section 7 relates to the constitutions Of
North and South Dakota, save the con-
cluding paragraph, which is as follows
Providea, that IL either Of the proposed
states provided for in this act shall reject
the constitution which may be submitted
for ratification or rejection at the election
provided therefor, the governor Of the ter
ritory in which such proposed constitu-
ton was rejected shall issue his procla-
nation reconvening the delegates elected
to the convention which formed such re-
jected constitution, fixing the time and
place at which such convention shall as
semble; and when so assembled they
shall proceed to form another constitution
to amend the rejected constitution, and
shall submit such new constitution or
amended constitution to the people Of the
proposed state for ratification or rejection,
at such time as said convention may de-
termine; and all the provisions Of this
act, so far as applicable, shall apply to
such convention so reasscmblsd and to the
constitution which may be formed, its
ratification or rejection, and to the ad-
mission Of the proposed states.
Sec. 8. The constitutional convention
which may assemble in North Dakota,
Montana and Washington shall provide
for submitting the constitutions formed
by them to the people Of said proposed
states, respectively, for ratification or re-
lection at elections to be held in said pro-
posed states on the said first Tuesday in
October. At the election provided for in
this section the qualified voters Of said
proposed states shall vote directly for or
against the proposed constitutions, and
for or against any articles or propositions
separately submitted. The returns Of
the said elections shall be made to
the secretary Of each Of said terrific
ries, who, with the governor and chief
justice thereof, or any.two Of them, shall
canvass the same; and II q majority Of
the legal votes cast shall be for the con-
stitution the governor shall certify the
same to the president Of the United
States, together with a statement Of the
votes cast thereon and upon separate ar
ticles or propositions, and copy Of said
constitution, articles, propositions and
ordinances. And II the constitutions and
governments Of said proposed states are
republican in form, and Il all the pro-
visions Of this act have been complied
with in the formation thereof, It shall be
the duty Of the president Of the United
States to issue his proclamation annOunc-
ing the result Of the election in each, and
thereupon the proposed states which have
adopted constitutions and formed state
governments as herein provided shall be
deemed admitted by congress into the
Union under and by virtue Of this act on
an equal footing with the original states
from and after the date Of the said proc
lamation.
Sec. 8. That until the next general CEN
sus, or until otherwise provided by law,
said states shall be entitled to one repre-
sentative in the house Of representatives
Of the United States, except South Da-
kota, which shall be entitled to two; and
the representatives to the ifty-hrst con-
gress, together with the governors and
other officers provided for in said consti-
tutions, may be elected on the same day
Of the election for the ratification or re-
lection Of the constitutions; and until
said state officers are elected and qualified
under the provisions Of each constitution
and the states, respectively, are admit
into the Union, the territorial officers
shall continue to discharge the duties Of
their respective Offices In each Of the said
territories.
Sec. 10. That upon the admission Of
each Of said states into the Union sections
numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every
township Of said proposed states, and
where such sections, or any parts thereof,
have been sold or otherwise disposed Of
by or under the authority Of any act Of
congress, other lands equivalent thereto In
legal subdivisions Of not less than one
quarter section and as contiguous as may
be to the section in lieu Of which the
same Is taken, are hereby granted to said
states for the support Of common schools,
such indemnity lands To be selected with
in said states in such manner as the leg
islature may provide with the approval Of
the secretary Of the interior-prOvided,
that the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sec
tions embraced in permanent reservations
for national purposes shall not at any time
be subject to the grants or to the indem-
nifty provisions Of this act, nor shall any
lands embraced in Indian, military or
other reservation Of any character, be
subject to the grants or to the indemnity
provisions Of this act until the reservation