The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-11-08
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Following Is the Text of the Proc1amu
tion Admitting South Dakota.

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Following Is the Text of the Proclama-
tion Admitting South Dakota.
BY THE 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
Territory of Dakota might, upon the
conditions prescribed in said act, become
the states of North Dakota and Soutl,
Dakota; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the area comprising the Territory OF
Dakota should, for the purposes of the
act, be divided on 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 conven-
ton in districts south of said parallel,
should at the time prescribed in the act,
assemble in convention at the City of
Sioux Falls; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by the said
act that the delegates elected as aforesaid
should, after they had met and organ
lied, declare on behalf of the people of
South Dakota that they adopt the consti-
tuition Of the United States, whereupon
the convention should be authorized to
form constitution and state govern
ment for the proposed State of South
Dakota; 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
dians not taxed, and not be repugnant
to the constitution of the United States
and the principles of the Declaration Of
Independence, and that the convention
should by an ordinance irrevocable with
out the consent 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 constitutions of North and South
Dakota should respectively incorporate
an agreement, to be reached in accord
ance with the provisions Of the act, for
an equitable division of all the property
belonging to the Territory Of Dakota, the
disposition Of all public records, and the
apportionment Of all the debts and liza
bilities of said territory, and that each Of
said states should obigate itself to pay
its proportion of such debts and liabili-
ties, 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 written or printed on his bal
lot the words 'For the Sioux Falls con-
stitution," or the words against the
Sioux Falls constitution" 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
a majority of all votes cast on this ques-
ton should be 'sFor the Sioux Falls con-
stitution," it should be the duty of the
convention which might assemble at
Sioux Falls, as provided in the act to re-
submit to the people of South Dakota, for
ratification or rejection. at an election
provided for in said act, the constitution
framed at Sioux Falls and adopted No
vember 3, 1885, and also the articles and
propositions separately submitted at that
election, including the question of locat-
ing the temporary seat of government,
with such changes only as related to the
name and boundary of the proposed
state, to the reapportionment of the Ju-
dicial 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 peo-
pie of South Dakota should by an ordi-
nance of the convention forming the
same be submitted to the people of South
Dakota at an election to be held therein
on the first Tuesday in October, 1899, for
the ratification or rejection by the quail
fled electors 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
chief Justice thereof, or any two of them,
should canvass the same, and if a major
ity of the legal votes cast should be for
the constitution, the governor should GER
tify the result to the president of the
United States, together with statement
of the votes cast thereon and upon sepa-
rate articles or propositions, and a copy
of said constitution, articles, propositions
and ordinances; and
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me
by the governor Of the Territory of Da-
kota that at the aforesaid election for
delegates the "Sioux Falls constitution
was submitted to the people of the pro-
posed state of South Dakota, as provided