Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-07

should. after they met and organized, de-
clare on behalf of the people In South Da-
kota that they adopt the constitution of
he United States. whereupon said con-
vention should be authorized to form a
constitution and state government for the
purpose of the state of South Dakota; and
WHEREAS, it is provided by said act
that the constitution so adopted should be
republican in form, and make no distinc-
ton IN civil or political rights on account
Ofrace or color, except as to Indians not
taxed, and not be repungent to the cOnstl-
tuition of the United States and to the
principles of the declaration of indepe1-
dence, and that the convention should be
an ordinance irrevocable without the con-
sent 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 constitution 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 an equitable division of all property be-
longing to the territory Of Dakota, the dis
positions Of all public records and also for
apportionment Of the debts and liabilities
of said territory and that each of the said
states should obligate isself to pay its por-
ton of such debts and liabilities 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 printed or written on his bal
lot the words, For the Sioux Falls con-
stitutiOn, or the words, Against the
Sioux Falls constitutions; that the votes
on this question should be returned
and canvassed In the same manner
as the votes for the election of
delegates, and if the majority Of all votes
cast on this question should be for the
Sioux Falls constitution, it should be the
duty Of the convention which might as
semble at Sioux Falls as provided In the
act, to resubmit to the people OF South
Dakota for ratification or rejection, at an
election provided for in said act, the con-
stitution framed at Sioux Falls, and
adopted November 3, 1885, and also the
articles and a proportion separately
submitted at that election including
the question of locating temporary the seat
of government, with such changes only as
related to the name and boundry of the
proposed state, to the reapportionment of
the judicial and Legislative districts, and
such amendments as might be necessary
in order to comply with the provisions of
the act; and
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution formed for the people
of South Dakota should be an ordinance
OF the convention forming the same, to be
submitted to the people of South Dakota at
an election to be held on the first Tues
day in October, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, for ratification or 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 governor and the
chief justice thereof, or any two of them,
should canvass the same, and if majority
of legal votes cast should be for the con-
stitutiOn the governor should certify the
result to the president of the United States,
together with a statement Of the votes cast
thereon, and upon seperate articles and
propositions, and copy of said constitu-
ton, articles, propositions and ordinances;
and
WHEREAS, 1t has been certified to me
by the governor Of the territory of Dakota,
that at the aforesaid election for delegates,
the Sioux Falls constitution was submit
ted to the people of the proposed state of
South Dakota, as provided In said act
that the majority OF all
votes cast on this question
was, for the Sioux Falls constitution"
that that said constitution was, at the
time prescribed in the act, re-submitted to
the people of South Dakota, with the pro-
per changes and amendments, and has
been adopted and ratified by a majority of
qualified voters of the said proposed state
in accordance with the conditions prescrib-
ed IN said act and
WHEREAS, 1t is also certified to me by
said governor that at the same time the
body of said constitution was submitted
to a vote of the people, two additional
articles were submitted separately, to wit:
An article numbered twenty-four entitled
prohibition, which received a majority
of all the votes cast for and against
said article as well as ma
jority of all votes cast for and
against the constitution, and was adopted;
and an article numbered 25, entitled mi
nority representation, > which did not re-
or upon the constitution, was rejected;
and
WHEREAS, A duly authenticated copy
of said constitution, additional articles,
ordinances and propositions as required
by said act. has been received by me.
Now, therefore; /, Benjamin Harrison,
president of the United States of America
do in accordance with the act of congress
aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact
that the conditions imposed by congress
on the state of South Dakota emitting
that state to admission to the Union have
been ratified and accepted and that the
admission of said state into the Union is
now complete.
In testimony whereof have hereunto
set my hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington, this
second day of November, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, and of the independence of
the United States of America the one
hundred and fourteenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the president. q
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of state.