The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-11-09
The Proclamation,

WHEREAS, the congress Of the United
States did by all act, approved on the
twenty-second day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine,
provided that the inhabitants of the ter
ritory of Montana might upon the condi-
tlons prescribed in said act, become the
state of Montana.
WHEREAS, it was provided by said act
that the delegates elected as therein pro-
vided to the constitutional convention
should assemble in convention, at the
time prescribed in the act, at the capital
OF the said territory; and
WHEREAS, it was provided by the said
act that the delegates elected as afore-
said should, after they had met and Or
ganized, declare, on behalf of the people
OF Montana that they adopt the constitu-
ton OF the United States; whereupon the
said convention should be authorized to
form constitution and state government
for the proposed state of Montana; and
WHEREAS, it 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 Inde-
pendence, and that the constitution by an
ordinance irrevocable without the consent
of the United States and the people of
said state, make certain provisions per-
scribed in said act; and
WHEREAS, it was provided by said act
that the constitution thus formed for the
people of Montana should, by an ordin-
ance of the convention forming the same
be submitted to the people of Montana at
an election to be held therein on the first
Tuesday in October, 1889. for ratification
or rejection by the qualified voters Of
said proposed state and that the returnt
of said election should be made to the
secretary of the territory of Montana, who
with the governor and chief justice
thereof, or any two of them, should can
q vass the same; and, if a majority Of the
legal votes cast should be for the consti
tuition, the governor should certify th'
result to the president of the United
States, together with a statement of tn
votes cast thereon, and a copy of salt
constitution, articles, propositions an
ordinance; and
WHEREAS, 1t has been certified to m
by the governor of the territory of Nor
tana that within the time prescribed b
said act Of congress constitution for tn
proposed state of Montana has bee
adopted and the same ratified by a ms
Il jority of the qualified voters of said pr'
posed state in accordance with the cond
tions prescribed by said acts and
WHEREAS, A duly authenticated COZ
of said constitution, article, ordinance
and propositions. as required by said at
has been received by me.
Now, therefore, I. Benjamin Harriso
do, in accordance with the provisions
the act of congress aforesaid, declare al
proclaim the fact that the conditions il
posed by congress on the state of Mo
tana, to entitle that state to admission
the Union have been ratified and accepte
and that the admission of the said sta
into the Union is now complete In tt
timony whereof / have hereunto set
hand and caused the seal of the Unit
States to be affixed
- Done at the city of Washington this
day of November, in the year of
Lord 1889, and of the Independence
'he the United States of America, the ia
his IsEAI.1 BENJAMIN HARRISON
the By the President.
o+o JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State