Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-16

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declare on behalf of the people of South
Dakota that they adopt the constitution of
the United States, whereupon said conven-
ton should be authorized TO form a consti-
tuition and state government for the pur-
poses of the state of South Dakota; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution so adopted should
be republican in form ard should make no
distinction in civil or political rights on ac-
count OF race or color, except as 20 Indians
not taxed, and should not be r~epugnant TO
the constitution of the United States or the
principles of the Declaration of indie
pcndence and that the convention should.
by ordinance ~irrevocable without the con
sent of the United States and the people of
the said states, make certain provisions
prescribed in said act; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by the said act
that the constitutions of North Dakota and
South Dakota should, respectively, in
corporate an agreement to be reached in
accordance with the provisions of the act
for the eqitable division of all property be-
longing to the territory of Dakota, the dis
position of all public records and also for
the apportionment of the debts and liabili-
ties of said territory, and that each of said
states should obligate itself TO pay its pro-
portion Of such debts and liabilities, the
same as If they had been contracted by such
states respectively: and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that at the election for delegates to the con-
stitutional convention in south Dakota
therein provided, each elector might have
written or printed on his ballot words for
the Sioux Falls constitution that the votes
on this question should be returned and
canvassed in the same manner as votes for
selection of delegates, and il a majority Of
all the votes cast on this question should be
(tor the Sioux Falls constitution it should
be the duty of the convention which might
assemble at Sioux Falls, as provided in the
act, TO re-submit to the people of South Da-
kota, for ratification or rejection, at an
election provided for IL, said act of the CON
stitution framed at Sioux Falls and adopted
November third, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, and also the articles and prop-
~ositions separately submitted at that cleo
ton, including the question Of locating the
temporary seat of government, with such
changes only as related TO the name and
boundary of the proposed state, TO the APP
pointment of judicial and legislative dis
tricts and such amendments as might be
necessary in order to comply with the pro-
visions Of the act, and,
Whereas. IL was provided by said act
that the constitution formed for the people
OF South Dakota should, by an ordinance
of the convention forming the same. be
submitted 20 the people OF South Dakota at
an election to be held on the first Tuesday
in October, 1883, for the ratification or re-
lection by the qualified voters of said pro.
posed state and that the returns Of said
election should be returned 10 the secre-
tary of the territory of Dakota who. with
the governor and chief justices, or any two
Of them. should canvass the same, and if a
majority of the legal votes east should be
for the constitution the governor should
certify the same TO the president of the
United states, together with a statement of
the votes cast thereon. and upon the sep
arate articles or propositions, and a copy
of said constitution, articles, propositions
and ordinances; and,
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me by
the governor Of the territory Of Dakota that
at the aforesaid election for delegates TO
the Sioux Falls constitution it was sub
m1tted 10 the people of the proposed state
OF South Dakota, as provided in said act;
that a majority of all the votes cast on this
question was for the Sioux Falls constitu-
ton that said constitution was, at the
time prescribed in the act, resubmitted TO
the people of South Dakota, with proper
changes and amendments. and has been
adopted and ratified by a majority of the
qualified voters of said proposed state in
accordance with the conditions prescribed
in said act; and
Whereas, 1t is also certified by the said
governor that at the same time the body of
said constitution was submitted TO "a vote
of the people two additional articles were
supnlUted separately, towit: An article
numbered "a, entitled "Prohibition,n
which receivedN majority of all the votes
cast for and against the article, as well as a
majority of all votes east for and against
the constitution, and was adopted and an
article numbered %. entitled Minority
Representation" which did not receive a
majority of the votes cast thereon or under
the constitution and was rejected and,
Whereas, a duly authenticated copy of
SAD constitution. and the additional ar
ticles, ordinances and propositions re-
quired by said act, have been received
by me-
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
president of the United States of America,
do, in accordance with the act of congress
aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact
that the conditions imposed by congress on
the state of South Dakota TO entitle that
state to admission into the union nave been
ratified and accepted, and that the admis-
sion of said state into tn" union is now COM
plete.
In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States TO be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this sec
ond day of November in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, and of the independence of the
United States of America the one hundred
and fourteenth.
(SeaD BENJAMIN HARRISON.
BY the President: JAMES G. BLAINE, Sec
rotary of State.