The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-11-15
ENTER THE UNION
The President issues His Procla-
nation Admitting the
Two Dakotas.
Both Documents Declare All Re-
quirements Have Been Com
piled With.
The News Received With Wild En-
thusiasm In Both the New
States-Patriotic Citi.
zens Celebrate.
Join the Eight.

dispatch was sent from the executive
mansion Saturday afternoon by Secrc-
tary Blaine:
To Governors Mellette and Miller, North
and South Dakota, Bismarck, North Da.
kota:
The last act in the admission of the two
Dakotas as states In the union was COM
pleted this afternoon ut the executive man
sion at 3:4t O'Clock by he president signing
at that moment Representations req aired
by law for the admission of the two states.
The article on prohibition submitted sep
Arately III each state was adopted In both.
The article providing for minority repre-
sentation in South Dakota was rejected by
the people. This is the first instance in tile
history of the national government of'twin
atates-North and South Dakota-entering
the union at the same moment.
JAMES G. BLAINE.
The following is the proclamation i'd
mitting North Dakota:
Proclamation the congress of
the United States did, by an act approved
on the twenty-second day of February one
Thousand eight hundred and eighty nina,
provide that the inhabitants of the territory
of Dakota might, upon conditions. pre-
Scribed in the said act, become the stn.es of
North Dakota and South Dakota. and
whereas it was provided by the said act
that the area comprising the territory of
Dakota Should, for the purpose of the act.
be divided ON the line OF tic Seventh
standard parallel produced due west TO the
western boundary of said territory, and tile
delegates elected as therein provided to the
constitutional convention in the districts
north of said parallel should assemble in
convention, as the time prescribed in the
act, at the city Of Bismarck; and
1s-ne I,,l I, . 4
that the delegates elected a5 uforcsa d
should, after they had met and organized,
declare, on behalf of the people of North
Dakota, that they adopt t,ir coas ution of
the United States; whereof .;.d conyen-
tion should be authorized l.s .ori,: q consti-
tuition and state government for the pro
posed state of North Dakota: and,
Whereas, 1t was provided fy said act
that the constitution SO adopted should be
republican in form and making rO restric-
tions in civil or political rights on account
Of race or color, except as to Indians not
taxed, and not be repugnant to the ccn,tl-
tuition of the United States ard the princi
pies Of the Declaration of In Independence.
and the convention should, by ordinance ir-
revocabfe, without the consent of the
United States and the people of said state,
make certain provis.oas prescribed in said
act; and,
Whereas, 1t was provided by the said act
that the constitutions of North Dn!io:a and
South Dakota should, respectively, incor-
pofate an agreement TO he reached in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the act, for
the equitable division of ali property be
longing to the territory of Dakota the dis
position Of all public records, and also for
tho apportionment of the debts and linbiii-
ties of said territory, and that each Of said
states should ob!isate itself to ray n po,.-
tion of such debts and liabilities the same
as If they had been created by such states
respectively; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution thus formed for the
people of North Dakota should, by an or
dtnRnCe of the convention forming the
same, be submitted to the people of NORTH
Dakota at an election held th,:cin on the
first Tuesday in October. 1859. for
the ratification or rejection by
the qualified vo.ers of said pro
posed state, and that the returns OF said
election should be made to til secre. arg
Of the territory of Dakota. who with the
governor and chief iilstice tcr of, or any
two of them should canvass the same; and
II the majority of the legal votes cast
should be for the constitution the governor
should certify the resGlt To The president
of the United Stascs, together with a state
ment of the votes cas-: thereon and upon
the separate articles or propositions and {;
tions and ordinances; and
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me by
the governor of the territory Of Dakota
that within the time prescribed by the said
act of congress, the constitution for the
proposed state Of North Dakota has beer
adopted and the same ratified by a major
ity of the qualified voters OF said proposed
state in accordance with the conditions
preso hed in said act; and
Whereas. 1t is also certified to mo hy
said governor that at She same time tho
body of the same constitution was sub
mitted to Il vote of the people the separate
article numbered twenty ard entitled pro
hibition" was also submitted and received
majority of all the votes cast for and
against said article as well as majority
of all the votes cast for and against the con
stitution, articles, ordinances and propo
sitions, as required by said acs, have beer
received by me,
Now, therefore, /, Benjamin Harrison,
president of the United States of America
do in accordance with the provisions of tho
act of congress aforesaid declare and pro
claim that the conditions imposed by con
gress on the state of North Dakota to cntitl.
that state to admission to the union have
been ratified and accepted, and that the all
mission of the said state into the union is
now complete.
In testimony whereof | have hereunte
SET my mana anu caused tne seal tnt
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this sec
ond day of November, in the year Of oul
Lord one thousand eight hundred ant
eighty-nine, and of the independence o
the United States of America the one hun
dred and fourteenth.
[Seall BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the president: James e. Blaine, sec
SOUTH DAKOTA.
The following is the text of the proclama
ton admitting South Dakota:
BY the president of the United States o
America-Proclamatio
Whereas, The congress of the United
States did, by an act approved on tn
twenty-second day Of February, one thou
vide that the inhabitants of the territor,
of Dakota might, upon conditions pre-
scribed In said act, become the states O
North Dakota and South Dakota; and
Whereas, It was provided by the sal,
act, that said area comprising the territor,
Of Dakota should, for tho purpose of til
act, be divided on the line of the Seventl
the western boundary Of the said territor.
and that the delegates elected as thereii
provided to tho constitutional convention
In tire districts south of said parable
should, at the time prescribed in the act
assemble In convention at the city of Siou
Falls; and,
Whereas, 1t was provided by said nc
that the delegates elected as aforesai,
should, after they had met and organized
declare ON behalf of the people Of Sout
Dakota that they adopt the constitution 0
the United States, whereupon said conven
tion should be authorized to form consti
tuition and state government for the pur
poses Of the state of South Dakota; and
Whereas, It was provided by said &C
that the constitution SO adopted shoul,
be republican in form and should make n
count Of race or color, except as to Indian
not taxed, and should not be repugnant t
tho constitution OF the United States or th
principles Of the Declaration Of Inds
/ peudencs and that the convention should
BY ordinance irrevpcable without the cur
,ent Of the United States and Che people 9
she Said etates, make certath pfoeisiCn
prescribed In said acti ppd L
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