Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-28
FOUR NEW SISTERS.

President Cleveland Celebrates washing
toms Birthday by Signing the Torritorisi
Admission Bill to Let In Washington,
Montana. North Dakota, and South Da-
kota.
WASHINGTON, Feb 22-Mr. Springer, at
one O'Clock to-day, received note from
the President announcing that at eleven
O'Clock he had signed the Territorial bill.
The message was shown about the House,
and the friends of the bill gathered IN
knots and congratulated each other over
the successful completion of long and
tedious work.
The bill, as finally agreed to, provides
for the admission of the States or North
Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and
Washington. The Territory of Dakota IS
to be divided on the line of the seventh
standard parallel produced due west TO
the western boundary of the Territory.
The delegates elected to the constitution
al convention north of this parallel shall
assemble at Bismarck, and those elect
ed south of the parallel at Sioux
Falls. The delegates to the conven-
ton in each of the proposed new
States shalt be elected the Tuesday after
the first Monday in May and shall meet
July and declare that they adopt the
Constitution of the United States. They
are authorized thereupon to form consti-
tutions and State governments.
1t is provided that at the election for
delegates to the convention In South
Dakota the electors shall vote for or
against the Sioux Falls Constitution. If
a majority of the votes shall be for the
Constitution the convention shall re-
submit to the people of South
Dakota, for ratification or rejection,
the Constitution framed at Sioux Falls,
and also the articles and propositions
separately submitted, including the ques-
ton of locating the temporary seat or
government, with such changes only as
relate to the name and boundary of the
proposed State, to the reapportionment OF
the judicial and legislative districts, and
such amendments as may be necessary in
order to comply with the provisions of
this act; and if majority of the
votes cast on the ratification or rejec-
ton of the Constitution shall be for the
Constitution, irrespective of the articles
separately submitted, the State of South
Dakota shall be admitted as State In the
Union under said Constitution as hereln-
after provided; but the archives, records,
and books of the Territory of Dakota
shall rem ain at Bismarck, the capital OF
North Dakota, until an agreement In re-
ference thereto is reached by said States.
But II at the electlou lor ueleSaeoS
to the constitutional convention
in South Dakota majority OF
all the votes cast shall be against
the Sioux Falls Constitution it shall be
the duty of the convention to form
Constitution, as if that question had not
been submitted to the people.
1t is made the duty OF the President to
admit the four new States by prociama-
ton if the Constitutions framed are rati-
fed at the election to be held the first
Tuesday in October. Each of the new
States shall be entitled to one Represent
ative in Congress, except South Dakota,
which shall be entitled to two Repre-
sentatives.
Section eleven provides that all lands
herein granted for educational purposes
shall be disposed of only at public sales,
and at a price not less than ten dollars
per acre, the proceeds to constitute per-
manent school fund, the interest of which
only shall be expended in the support of
said schools. But sal lands may, under
such regulations as the Legislatures shall
prescribe, be leased for periods of
not more than five years in quantities
not exceeding one section to any one
person or company; and such lana shall
not be subject to pre- emption, homestead
entry, or any other entry under the land
laws of the United States, whether sur
veyed or unsurveyed. but shall be re-
served for school purposes only.
All mineral lands are exempted from
the grants made by the act. The two
Dakotas are to be added to Justice Mil
ler's circuit (the Eighty and Washington
and Montana to Justice Fields (the
Ninth).