The Dickinson press., 1889-11-09

The Article providing for minority representa-
tion in South Dakota was rejected by the people
ms is the first instance in the history Of the
national government of twin states.
North and South Dakota entered the Union q,
the same moment. JAMES g. BLAINE.
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Following Is the Text of the Proclama
tion Admitting South Dakota.
BY H PRESIDENT OF THE UN1TEI
STATES. A PROCLAMATION:
Whereas, The congress of the United
States did, by an act approved on the
twenty-second day of February, one
thousand, c;.''- added 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 South
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 tc
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. w%hereupon
the convention should be authorized to
form a 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 tho 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 obligate 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 clector
might have written OF printed on his bal
lot the words ''For the Sioux Falls con
stitution," or the words Against the
Sioux Falls constitutional that the votes
on this question should be returned and
canvassed in the same manner as the
votes for the election of delegates: and il
a majority of all votes cast on this qucs.
ton should be For the Sioux Falls con.
stitution," it should .be the duty of the
convention which might assemble al
Sioux Falls, as provided in the act to re.
submit to the people of South Dakota, fol
ratification Or rejection. at an election
provided for in said act, the constitution
framed at Sioux Falls and adopted No
vember 8, 1885, and also the articles and
propositions separately submitted at thai
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 i'll
dicial and legislative districts, and sucl
amendments as might be necessary ii
order to comply with the provisions o.
the act: and
Whereas. 1t was provided by said acl
that the constitution formed for the PEG
pie of South Dakota should by an ordi
nance of the convention forming the
same be submitted to the people of Soutl
Dakota at an election to be held therein
on the first Tuesday in October, 1889, fol
the ratification or rejection by the quail
fed electors of said proposed state, anC
that the returns of said election SHOULD
be made to the secretary of the Territory
of Dakota, who, with the governor ant
chief justice thereof, or any two of them
should canvass the anne and if u major
ity of the legal votes cast should be fol
the constitution, the governor should Ger
tify the result to the president of thu
United States, together with a statement
of the votes cast thereon and upon sepa
rate articles or propositions, and a cop,
of said constitution. articles, proposlrlons
and ordinances; and
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me
by the governor of the Territory of Da
kota that at the aforesaid election fol
delegates the Sioux Falls constitution
was submitted to the people of the pro
posed state of South Dakota, as provided
in the said act; that a majority of all the
votes cast on this question was For the
Sioux Falls constitutions" and that thu
said constitution was, at the time pre-
scribed in the act, resubmitted to the
people Of South Dakota, with proper
changes and amendments. and has beer
adopted and ratified by a majority Of the
qualified voters Of said proposed state, il
accordance with the conditions prescribed
in said act; and
Whereas, 1t is also certified to me BY
n said governor that at the same time
that the body of said constitution wa!
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 u majority of all tin
half n note ioI9r-snd against said article, a!
.But, mada,iority Of all the votes cas-
the i~ncouyeniene the constitution, and wa!
article numbered TWEEN
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