Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-21
TO ISSUE o proclamation declaring South
Dakota admitted as q state.

TO lSEN6 q DTGclHsnhtiUu 1SCibEiuS Cousu
DAKOTA admitted as q state.
The delegates 10 this convention elect
ed as provided in the act ehall meet at
the seat of government OF each OF the
respective territories the 4tb day of July,
1889, and litter organization shall declare
on behalf of the people of said proposed
states that they adopt the constitution
oil the United States, whereupon the
conventions are authorized TO form con-
stitutions and state governments fer the
proposed states respectively.
ID cnse constitutions and state gov
etnments she'll be formed III compliance
with these provisions the conventions
forming the same shall provide by ofdi'
nances for submitting the constitutions
10 the people of the said states for their
ratification or rejection, OF an election 70
be held in each of the territories the
Tuesday after the first Monday ID No
vember, 1889, at which election the
qualified voters of shid proposed states
shall vote directly for or against the pro.
posed constitutions and for or against
any provisions separately submitted.
Until the next general census, or until
otherwise provided by law, the new
states shall be entitled to n represen-
| tative in the house of representatives OF
| the United Ssates, except Dakota, which.
If admitted as one state, shall be entitled
TO two, but ii admitted as W states
such number as may be provided in the
special provisions fer division. Sreh
representatives. together with the gov
ernora and other officers provided for in
the constitutions, may be elected on the
same day Of the election for the adoption
OF The constitution.
Other provisions give in detail the
usual reservations about grants of schoo
lands, their appraisement, the manner
OF sale, end go on, mineral lands being
exempted from the act. The string
which Is tied to the whole omnibus act
crops ont in various places. b follow
ing is the full provision regarding the
real getting into the union:
Sea. 10. That the constitutional con-
ventions may, by ordinance, provide Tor
the election of full state governments,
including members of the legislatures
and representatives in congress-, but
said governments shall remain in abey-
ence until the constitutions framed by
said conventions shall have been APP
proved by congress-. In case thec CONSTR
tuition of any said proposed states shall
be ratified by the people, but not other
wise, the legislature thereof may assem-
BILE, organize, and elect two senators OK the
United States, and the governor end
secretary Of state OF such proposed States
shall certify the election to congress and
when the constitution SO framed is ap-
proved by congress, and such states nd
!, mitted into the union By special act OF
. congress therefor. she senators and rep
gesensetives shall be admitted to seats IL
congress and TO all the rights IN priv
leges of senators and Representatives O
, other states in the congress OF The Uni
ted States; and the states OF government
, formed in pursuance OF said constitu'
irons, as proved by the constitutions
conventions, shall proceed TO exercise al
a the functions OF state officers and OIL
laws i n force made by suoh territories q
q the time of their admission in he niol
v shall be in force in said states exeep
i as modified or changed by this act or b,
the constitutions OF the states, respec
a fiyeiy.