The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-11-15

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 cbligate itself to pay its prd-
portion of such debts and liabilities, the
same as If they had been contracted by such
states respectively: and
Whereas, It was provided by said act
that at the election for delegates to the con-
stitutional convention id South Dakota
therein provided, each elector might have
written or printed on his ballot words (fof
the Sioux Falls constitution) thst the votes
on this question should be returned and
canvassed in the same manner as votes for
selection OF delegates, and if a majority of
all the votes cast on this question should be
(for the Sioux Falls constitution) IL should
be tho 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 II, 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
tion, 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 ap-
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, 1t was provided by snid act
that the constitution formed for the people
of South Dakota should, by an ordinance
of the convention forming the same, be
submitted to the people Of South Dakota at
an election to be held on the first Tuesday
in October, 1889, 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 to 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 cast should be
for the constitution tie governor should
certify the same to the president of the
United States, together with statement of
the votes cast thereon, and upon the sep
arate articles or propositions, and copy
OF said constitution, articles, propositions
aud ordinances; and,
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me by
the governor of the territory Of Dakota that
at the aforesaid election for delegates Ito
the Sioux Falls conssitution) it was sub
mitted to the people of the proposed state
OF South Dakota, as provided in said act;
that majority of all the votes cast on this
tion;" that said constitution was, at the
time prescribed in the act, rasubmitted to
the people of South Dakota, with proper
changes and amendments. and has been
adopted and ratified by majority Of the
qualified voters of said proposed state IL
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 we're
submitted separately, towit; An article
which received a majority of all the votes
cast for and against the article, as we'll as a
majority of all votes cast for and against
| the constitution, and was adopted: and an
article numbered %, entitled "Minority
Representation" which did not receive :
majority of the votes cast thereon or undef
the constitution and was rejected: and,
Whereas, duly authenticated copy OF
said constitution, and the additional ar
ticles, ordinances and propositions re.
qured by said act, have been received
by me-
Now, therefore, l, 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 have been
I ratified and accepted, and that the admis-
sion of said state into the union Is now COM
plete.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
| Done at the city of Washington this 500
ond day of November In the year Of our
Lord ona Thousand eight hundred and
eighty-ninc, and of the independence of the
United States of America the one hundred
| and fourteenth.
| {SeaD BENJAMIN HARRISON.
I BY the President: JAMES G. BLAINE, Sec
rotary of State