Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-16
ENTER THE UNION
The President Issues His ProcIa-
nation Admitting the
Two Dakotas.
Both Documents Declare All Re-
qujrements Have Been Com
piled With.
Tho News Received With Wild En-
thusiasm in Both the New
States-Patriotic Citi-
Zens Celebrate.
Join the ThirtY.Eiohf.

~
yEary Blaine:
To Governors Meliette and Miller, North
snd South Dakota, Bismarck, North Da.
kota:
The last act in the admission of the two
Dakotas as states in the union was COM
p&eted this afternoon at the executive man.
atom at 3:4' o'clock by the president signing
at that moment the proclamations required
by law for the admission of the two states.
The article on prohibition submitted sep.
arately in each state was adopted in both.
The article providing for minority repre-
s~entation in South Dakota was rejected bv
the people. This is the first instance in the
history of the national government of twin
states-North and South Dakota-entering
che union at the same moment.
JAMES C.. BLAINE.
The following is the proclamation adj
uniting North Dakota;
observation-disclosures, 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 territory
OF Dakota might, upon conditions pre-
sacribed in the said act, become the states of
North Dakota and South Dakota, and
whereas it was provided by the said act
that the area comprising the territory of
Dakota should, for the purpose of the act.
be divided on the line of the Seventh
standard parallel produced due west to the
western boundary of said territory. and the
delegates elected as therein provided 10 the
constitutional convention in the districts
north Of said parallel should assemble in
convention, at the time prescribed in the
act, at the city Of Bismarck. and
Whereas, II was provided by the said act
Tint the delegates elected as aforesaid
should, after they had met and organized,
declare, on behalf of the people of North
Dakota, that they adopt the constitution of
che United States; whereupon said conven-
ton should be authorized t. form a consti-
SUtion and state government for the pro-
posed state of North Dakota; and,
Whereas, II was provided by said act
chat che constitution so adopted should be
republican in form and making no ~restric-
aOus in civil or political rights on account
OF race or color, except as to Indians not
taxed, and not be repugnant to the consti-
Suton of the United States and the princi-
pies of the Declaration of Independence,
and the convention should, by ordinance ir-
Eevocable, without the consent OF the
United States and the people of said states
make certain provisions prescribed in said
act; and,
Whereas, II was provided by the said act
that the constitutions of North Dakota and
South Dakota should, respectively, incor-
porate an agreement TO be reached in ac-
~cordance with the provisions of the act, for
the equitable division of all property be-
longing TO the territory of Dakota, the dis
position of all public records, and also for
che apportionment Of the debts and liabili-
ties Of said territory, and that each of said
states should obligate itself TO pay a por-
zion Of such debts and liabilities the same
as IL they had been created by such states
respectively; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
shat the constitution thus formed for the
epenHln nf Ng.tb DAKOTA ahpull hu % -.
dlnance Of the convention forming the
game, be submitted TO the people of North
Dakota at an election held therein on the
FIRST Tuesday in October, 1889, for
Go ratification or rejection by
Gle qualified voters of said pro.
posed state, and that the returns of said
election should be made to the secretary
OF the territory of Dakota, who with the
l<f3vernor and chief justice thereof, or any
two of them should canvass the same; and.
IL the majority of the legal votes cast
should be for the constitution the governor
should certify the result to the president
az the United States, together with a state
tsAent of the votes cast thereon and upon
1e separate articles or propositions and a
copy of said constitution, articles, PROPOSE
GSons and ordinances; and
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me by
n governor of the territory of Dakota
Ghat within the time prescribed by the said
e&ce of congress, the constitution for the
proposed state Of North Dakota has been
adopted and the same ratified by a major
fly 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
said governor that at the same time the
body of the same constitution was sub
emitted TO a vote of the people the separate
Srticle numbered twenty and entitled s'pro-
bibition'' was also submitted and received
- majority of all the votes cast for and
against said article as well as a majority
at all the votes cast for and against the con
s0tudon, articles, ordinances and propo-
&aSons, as required by said act, have been
received by me,
Now, therefore. I, Benjamin Harrison,
president of the United States of America,
60 In accordance with the provisions of the
Oct of congress aforesaid declare and pro-
eeaim that the conditions imposed by con-
gross On the state of North Dakota TO entitle
xhat state TO admission to the union have
bees ratified and accepted, and that the ad-
1nf&ston of the said state into the union Is
asw complete.
In testimony whereof / have h~ereunto
9eE my land and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done ut the city of Washington this sec
and day of November, in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
<sGhty-nine, and of the independence of
khe United States of America the one hun
<1red and fourteenth.
(Seall BENJAMIN HARRISON.
ny the president: James G. Blaine, sec
oekaxy of state.
SOUTH X
The following Is the text Of the proclama:
-1Soa admitting South Dakota:
BY che president of the United States of
Observation-Disclosures:
Whereas, The congress of the United
States did, by an act approved on the
Ssscnty second day of February, one thou
sand eight hundred and eighty-nine, pro-
0lde that the inhabitants of the territory
of Dakota might, upon conditions pre-
sr-ibed In said act, become the states of
Moth Dakota and South Dakota; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by the said
a<E that said area comprising the territory
a Dakota should, for the purpose of the
90, be divided on the line of the Seventh
scsndsrd parallel produced due west to
o. western boundary Of the said territory
am4 that the delegates elected as therein
uusvtdsd to the constitutional convention
ta 60 distrtcts south of said parallel
aAsah, at the time prescribed in the act
aase@61e In convention at the city Of Sioux
Usm~; and,
uGAsreas, It was provided by said act
e&ae sfAs dsiegatss elected as aforesaid