Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-09
The OMNIBUS BILL
Full Text Of the Act That Is
to Bring in the Dakotas
as States.
The First Voting to Be Done
on the Second Tuesday
in May.
state Conventions Will Meet on the
Fourth OF July and h Final
Vote will BE Taken in
October.

An act 10 pTONlut lOI III ulNIsIOu VI 0ahoto
into two states, and to enable the people OF
North Dakota, South Dakota Montana and
Washington TO form constitutions and
state governments, aud TO be admitted Into
the union on an equal footing with the
original states, and to make donations OF
public lands to such states.
Section /. That the Inhabitants OF all that
part OF the area Of the United States now
constituting the teIritories Ct Dakota, Mon
tana and Washington, as at present de-
scribed. may become the states or North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Montana and Washing
ton, respectively, As hereinafter provided.
Bee. =. The area comprising the territory
Of Dakota shall, Tor the purposes or This act,
be divided on the line of the seventh stand
ard parallel produced due west 10 the bound
aly OF said territory and the delegates
elected as hereinafter provided 10 the consti-
tutional convention In dlttiiets north OF saiu
parallel shall assemble In convention at the
time prescribed In this act, at the city OF Bis
marck, and the delegates elected In Districts
south OF said parallel shall, at the same time,
assemble in convention at the city OF Sioux
Falls.
sec. 3. That all person who are qualified
Dy The laws OF SAID territories 10 vote Tor rep
resentatives to the legislature assemblies
thereof are hereby authorized to vote for aud
choose delegates 10 form conventions In said
proposed states: and the qualifications for
delegates to sucn conventions snail be such
as by the laws Of said territories respectively
persons are required 10 possess to be eligible
to the legislative assemblies thereof; ana the
aforesaid delegates to form said conventions
shall be appointed within the limit Of the
proposed states, in such districts as may be
established as herein provided, In proportion
TO the population IN each OF the said counties
and districts, as near as may be, TO be ascer-
tanned at the time OF making said apportion-
ments by the persons herein authorized to
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obtainable, IN each OF which districts three
delegates shall be elected, but No elector
snail vote for more than two per
sons for delegates 10 such conven-
tons; that said aprortionment
shall be made by the governor,
the chief justice and the secretary OF the said
territories; and the governors OF said terri
tories shall, by proclamation, order an cleo
tion Of the delegates In each OF said proposed
states to be held on the Tuesday after the
second Monday In May, 1889, which proclama-
ton shall be Issued on the 18th day OF April,
1883, and such election shall be conducted,
returns made, the result ascertained, and the
certificates 10 persons elected to such con
~venlion Issued in the same manner as Is PIE
scribed by the laws OF the said territories
regulating elections therein for delegates to
congress; and the number OF votes cast for
delegates IN each precinct shall also be re.
turned. The number OF delegates 10 said
COuNtuIlOus ItSkCCLiNSiy mail ~ sSftIil -ufC
and all persons resident In said proposed
states, who are qualified voters OF said terri
tories as herein provided, shall be entitled to
vote upon the election OF delegates, and un-
der such rules and regulations as said con-
| ~ventions may prescribe, not In conflict with
this act, upon the ratification or rejection Of
the constitutions.
Sec. 4. Tnat the delegates TO the conven-
, tons elected as provided In this act shall
meet at the seat OF government OF each Of
said territories, except the delegates elected
In South Dakota, who shall meet At the city
Of Sioux Falls on the 4th day of July, 1859,
and after organization shall declare, on be
half OF the people Of said proposed states,
that they adopt the constitution of the United
States; whereupon the ssid conventions shall
be, and are hereby authorized 10 form con-
situations and state governments Tor said
proposed states, respectively. The constitu-
lions shall be republican In form, and make
no distinction in civil or political rights On
account OF race or color, except as to lniians
not taxed, and not to be repugnant TO the
constitution of the United States and the
principles OF the declaration Of Independence.
And said conventions shall provide, by oIdi-
nances irrevocable without the consent OF the
United States and the people of said states:
Flrst-That perfect liberation Of religious
| sentiment shall be secured, and thst no in
hebitant of said states shall ever be molested
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Sco4d-Tbat the people inhabiting said
prppos q states do agree a1d declare that
they forever disclaim all right and title 10
the u~uappropriated public lands lying w!tt!n
the boundaries thereof, and 10 all lands lying
W thin said limits owned or held by any II
dtsn or Indian tribes; and thai units the title
thereto shall have been extin2uished by the
United States, the same shall be and remain
subject 10 the disposition OF the United
Statee, and said Indian lands shall remain
under the absolute iuti'diction and control
OF the congress OF the United States, that the
lands belonging 70 citizens OF the United
States icsiRing without the said states shall
never be taxed at higher rate than the
lands belonging 10 resldents thereof; that no
taxes shall be inn os q Ivy the states on lands
or properly Therein belonging 10 or witch
may hereafter be purchased hv the United
States or reeerved for It's use. But morning
herein, or In the ordinances Eercin pro1iied
for, shall preclude the said states from tax
ing AS other lands are taxed any lands Owned
or held by any Indian who has severed
his tribal rei6tiols, and has obtained
from the Uni ed States or from any
person a little thereto by patert or
other grant, save and except such lands AS
have teen or may be grant ted to any Inuian or
Indians under any act OF congress containing |
ID provision exempting the lands thus granted
from taxation: but said ordinances ehall pre-
vide that all such. lands shall be exempt from
taxation by said states so long and 10 such
extent as such act OF cor g msy pre-
scribe.
Third-Tbat the debt and liabilities az said
territories shall be assumed and paid by said
states, respectively.
Fourth-That provision hall be made FOR
the establishment and maintenance OF sys-
tens OF public schools, which shall be open 10
all the children of said states, and free from
s~ectsrlsn control.
See. ;. That the convention which shall
assemble AT Bismarck shall form a constitu-
tlon and state government for a state 10 he
known "a NORTH Dakota, ard the convention
which shall assemble at Sloux Falls .hall
form y constitution and state government for
"A state 70 be known rs South Dakota: Pre-
vided that at the election for delegates, AT
the constitutional convention In South
Dakota, rs hereinafter provided, each
lectn nav have written or printed
- his ballct the words "for the
~ruv Falls CO1st tuition or the words
'ag last the SiouI Falls constitution aud
tue votes on the question sh"ll be returned
and canvsssed IL The sane nauner rs FOR the
et ctiou provided for In section three OF this
sct; snd II a majority of all votes cast on this
quest ~ hall br "for the Sioux Falls const
tuition" IL rh4'l be The duty OF the convention
which may assemble at Sioux Falls, as herein
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