Morris tribune., 1889-11-06
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Following Is the Text of the Proclams
tion Admitting South Dakota.

Following Is the Text of the PrOclamR-
tion Admitting South Dakota.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES. A PROCLAMATION:
Whereas, The congress of the United
States did, by an act approved on the
twenty day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty
nine. provide that the inhabitants of the
Territory of Dakota might, upon the
conditions prescribed in said act, become
the states of North Dakota and South
Dakota: and
Whereas, 1t 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, produced due west to
the western boundary of said territory,
and that the delegates elected as therein
provided to the constitutional conven-
ton in districts south of said parallel,
should at the time prescribed in the act,
assemble in convention at the City Of
Sioux Falls: and
Whereas, 1t was provided by the said
act that the delegates elected as aforesaid
should, after they had met and organ
lied, declare on behalf of the people Of
South Dakota that they adopt the constl-
tuition of the United States, whereupon
the convention should be authorized to
form a constitution and state govern
ment for the proposed State OF South
Dakota; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution so adopted should
be republican in form and make no dis
tinction in civil or political rights on ac-
count of race or color, except as to In
dians not taxed, and not be repugnant
to the constitution of the United States
and the principles of the Declaration OF
independence, and that the convention
should by an ordinance irrevocable with
out the consent of the United States and
the people of said states, make certain
provisions prescribed in said act; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitutions of North and South
Dakota should respectively incorporate
an agreement. to be reached in accord
ance with the provisions of the act, for
an equitable division of all the property
belonging to the Territory of Dakota, the
disposition of all public records, and the
apportionment of all the debts and liza
bilities of said territory, and that each of
said states should obligate itself to pay
its proportion of such debts and habii-
ties, the same as if they had been created
by such states respectively; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
| that at the election for delegates to the
| constitutional convention in South Da-
kota, as therein provided, each elector
| might have written or printed on his bal
| lot the words For the Sioux Falls con-
stitution," or the words against the
Sioux Falls constitution that the votes
| on this question should be returned and
canvassed in the same manner as the
votes for the election of delegates; and d
a majority of all votes cast on this ques
ton should be 'For the Sioux Falls CON
stitution,'' it should be the duty of the
convention which might assemble al
Sioux Falls, as provided in the act to re
submit to the people of South Dakota, fol
ratification or rejection, at an election
| proyided for in said act, the constitution
| framed at Sioux Falls and adopted No
venlber 3, 1885, and also the articles ano
propositions separately submitted at thai
| election, including the question OF locat
| ing the temporary seat of government
with such changes only as related to thu
name and boundary of the proposed
state, to the reapportionment OF the Ju
dicial and legislative districts, and suct
| amendments as might be. necessary il
order to comply with the provisions Of
the act; and
Whereas, It was provided by said ac
/ that the constitution formed for the peo
| pie of South Dakota should by an ordl
nance of the convention forming th'
same be submitted to the people of Soutl
Dakota at an election to be held therein
on the first Tuesday in October, 1889, fo
the ratification or rejection by the quail
fed electors of said proposed state, ane
/ that the returns of said election shoult
be made to the secretary of the Terrltor.
of Dakota, who, with the governor ant
chief Justice thereof, or any two of them
should canvass the same, and if a major
ity of the legal votes cast should be TO
the constitution, the governor should Ger
tify the result to the president of TIN
United States, together with statemen
of the votes cast thereon and upon sepa
rate articles or propositions, and cop,
of said constitution, articles. proposition
and ordinances; and
Whereas, 1t has been certified to m'
by the governor of the Territory OF Da
kota that at the aforesaid election TO
delegates the ''Sioux Falls constitution
was submitted to the people of the pro
posed state of South Dakota, as provided
in the said act; that a majority of all th'
votes cast on this question was For th'
Sioux Falls constitution" and that tn
said constitution was, at the time pre-
scribed in the. act, resubmitted to tn
people of South Dakota, with prope
changes and amendments, and has bee
! adopted and ratified by majority Of fh