Connecticut western news., 1889-11-13
MONTANA A STATE.
The President Issues His Proclamation to
 That Effect.

President Harrison signed and issued the following proclamation
 Whereas, the Congress of the United States did, by an act approved on the 22d day of February, 1889, provide that the inhabitants of the territory of Montana might, upon the conditions prescribed in said net. become the state of Montana, and,
 Whereas. it was provided by said act that delegates elected as therein provided to constitutional convention ill the territory of Montana, should meet at the seat of govern ment of said territory, and that after they had met and organized. they should declare, on behalf of the people of Montana, that they adopt the constitution of tile United States, whereupOn the said convention should be au- thorized to form state government for the proposed state of Montana, and
 Whereas. it was provided by said act that the constitution so adopted should be repub- lcan ill form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or not be repugnant to the constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and that the convention should, by aE ordinance, irreyo- cable without the consent of the United States and the people of said states, make certain provisions prescribed ill the said act !; and,
 Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that the constitution thus formed for the people of Montana should by an ordinance of the con
 
 the people of Montana at an election to be held therein on the first Tuesday in October, 1889, for ratification or rejection by the quali- fled voters of said proposed state, and that the returns of said election should be made to the secretary of said territory who, with the Governor and chief justice, or any two of them, should canvass the same, and if a majority of the legal votes cast should be for the constitution, the Governor should certify the result to the President of the United States, together with statement of the votes cast thereon, and upon separate articles or propositions, and copy of said constitution, articles, propositions and ordi- nances, and,
 Whereas, 1t has been certified to me, by the Governor of said territory, that within the time prescribed by said act of Congress, a constitution for the proposed state of Monta- na has been adopted, and that the same, to- gether with two ordinances connected there with, has been ratified by majority of the qualified voters of said proposed state, in ac- | cordance with the conditions prescribed in said act, and
 Whereas, a duly authenticated copy of said constitution and ordinances as required by said act has been received by me: Now, therefore, l, Benjamin Harrison, President cordance with the provisions of the act of Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact that the conditions imposed by Con- gress on the state of Montana, to entitle that state to admission to the Union have been ratified, and accepted, and that the ad- mission of the 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 eighth 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: JAMES G. BLAINE, Sec
 retary of State.