The Dickinson press., 1889-11-09

BY II President OF THE UNITED
STATES. A PROCLAMATION:
Whereas, The congress of the United
States did by an act, approved on the
twenty-second day of February. one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine,
provide that the inhabitants of the Terri
tory of Dakota might, upon the condi-
lions prescribed i'll said act. become the
states of North Dakota and South Da-
kota: and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act,
that the area comprising the Territory of
Dakota, should, for the purposes of the
act, he divided Oh 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 convention
i'll districts north of a";' ..rallel should
assemble ii convention, at the time pre-
S,l iDed in the act, at the city of Bis
marck: and
Whereas, 1t was provided by the said
act that the delegates elected MS aforc-
said should. after they had met and or
ganjzea, declare, on behalf of the people
of North Dakota, that they adopt the
constitution of the United States; where
upon the said convention should be all
thorized to form a constitution and state
government for the proposed state of
North Dakota; and,
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that he constitutions of North Dakota
and South Dakota should, respectively,
incorporate an agreement to be reached
in accordance with the provision of the
act, for an equitable division of all prop
erty% belonging to the territoryo of Dakota,
the disposition of all public records. and
also for the apportionment of the debts
and liabilities of said territory, and that
each of said states should obligate itself
to pay its proportion of such debts and
liabilities, the same as ifv the had been
created by such states respectively; 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
dams not taxed and not he repugnant to
the constitution of the United States. and
the principles of the Declaration of In
dependence, SO that the constitution by
All ordinance irrevocable without the
consent of the United States and the
people of said states, make certain pro-
visions prescribed in said act; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution thus formed for the
people of North Dakota should, by an
ordinance of the convention forming the
same, be submitted to the people of
North Dakota at an election to be held
therein on the first Tuesday in October,
1888, for ratification OF rejection by the
qualified voters of said proposed state
and that the returns of said election
should be made to the secretary of the
Territory of Dakota, who, with the gov
ernor and chief justice thereof, or any
two of them, should canvass the same;
and, if a majority of the legal votes cast
should be for the constitution, the gov
ernor should certify the result to the
president of the United States, together
with a statement of the votes cast
thereon, and upon separate articles or
propositions, and a copy of said constitu-
ton, articles. propositions and ordinances;
and
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me
by the governor of the territory of Da-
kota that within the time prescribed bv
said act of congress a constitution for the
proposed state of North Dakota has
been adopted and the same ratified by a
ma ority of the qualified voters of said
proposed state in accordance with the
conditions prescribed in said act: and
Whereas, 1t is also certified to me by
the said governor that at the same time
that the body of said constitution was
submitted to a vote of the people, a sepa-
rate article numbered twenty and anti
tied Prohibition was also submitted
and received a majority of all the votes
cast for and against SAID article, as we'll
as a majority of all the votes cast for and
against the constitution, and was adopted;
and
Whereas, A duly authenticated copy
OF said constitution, article, ordinances
and propositions, as required by said act,
has been received by me.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
president of the United States of Amer
lea, do, in accordance with the provis-
ions of the act of congress aforesaid, de-
clare and proclaim the fact that the con-
ditions imposed by congress on the state
of North Dakota. to entitle that state to
admission to the Union have been rati-
fed and accepted, and that the admission
Of the said state into the Union is now
complete. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city Of Washington this
Lord 1889, and of the Independence of
the United States of America, the Hath.
lSeal. BENJAMIN HARRISON,
By the President.
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.