Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-11-07

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, 1889, for
the ratification or rejection by the quail
fed 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 tile governor and
chief justice thereof, or any two Of them,
should canvass the same, and if a ma ior-
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 a 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, las provided
in the said act: that a majority of all the
woes cast on this question was ''For the
Sioux Falls constitutions" and that the
sad constitution was. at the time pre-
scJibed in the act. resrbmitted to the
people of South Dakota, with proper
changes ard amendments. and has been
adopted and ratified by majority of the
qualified voters of said proposed state, in
accordance with the conditions prescribed
in said act and
Whereas. It is also certified to me by
the said governor that at the same time
that the body Of said constitution was
submitted to a vote of the people. two
additional articles were submitted sepa-
rately. to-wit: An article numbered
twenty-four, entitled Prohibition =
which received majority Of all the
votes cast for and against said article, as
well as majority Of all the votes cast
for and against the constitution, and was
adopted; and an article numbered twen-
ty-five, entitled Minority Representa-
tion," which did not receive a majority
of the votes cast thereon, nor upon the
constitution, and was rejected: and
Whereas, duly authenticated copy Of
said constitution, additional articles. or
dinances and propositions as required by
said act, has been received by me:
Now, therefore, l, Benjamin Harrison,
president of the United States Of Amer
lea, 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. to
entitle that state to admission to the
Union. have been ratified and accepted,
and that the admission of the said state
into the Union is now complete. In tes-
tin1ony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal Of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the city of
Washington. this I'd day of November,
in the year of our Lord, 1889, and of the
Independence of the United States of
America the Hath.
ISeal. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the president.
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.