Morris tribune., 1889-11-06

Seal. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the president.
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.
NORTH DAKOTA CALLED IN.
Following Is the Text of the Proclama-
tion Admitting North 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 Terri
tory of Dakota might, upon the condi-
tions prescribed in said act, become the
states of North Dakota and South Da-
kota; 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 convention
in districts north of said parallel should
assemble in convention, at the time pre-
scribed in the act, at the city of Bis
marck; and
Whereas. 1t was provided by the said
act that the delegates elected as afore-
said should, after they had met and Or
ganized, declare, on behalf of the people
of North Dakota, that they adopt the
constitution of the United States; where
upon the said convention should be au-.
thorized to form constitution and state
government for the proposed state of
North Dakota; and,
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitutions of North Dakota
and South Dakota should, respectively,
incorporate an agreement to be reached
in accordance with the provision of the,
act, for an equitable division of all prop
erty belonging to the territory of Dakota,
the disposition of all public records, and
also for the apportionment of the debts
and liabilities of said territory, and that
each of said states should obligate itself
to pay it's proportion of such debts and
liabilities, the same as ify the had been
created by such states respectively; 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 In
dependence, SO that the constitution by
an ordinance irrevocable without the
consent of the United States and the
| people of said states, make certain pro-
visions prescribed in said act; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution thus formed for the
people of North Dakota should, by an
| ordinance of the convention forming the
same, be submitted to the people of
North Dakota at an election to be held
therein on the first Tuesday in October,
| 1889, for ratification or rejection by the
| qualified voters 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 gov
ernor and chief. justice thereof, or any
two of them, should canvass the same;
and, if a majority of the legal votes cast
should be for the constitution, the gov
ernor should certify the result to the
president of the United States, together
with a statement of the votes cast
thereon, and upon separate articles or
| propositions, and copy of said constitu-
| ton, articles, propositions and ordinance;
! and
Whereas, 1t has been certified to- me
by the governor of the territory of Da-
kota that within the time prescribed by
said act of congress constitution for the
proposed state of North Dakota has
been adopted and the same ratified by a
majority of the qualified voters of said
| proposed state in accordance with the
conditions prescribed in said act; and
Whereas, 1t 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, a sepa-
| rate article numbered twenty and enti-
tied Prohibition" was also submitted
and received a 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 80 =, -
| Whereas, A duly authenticated copy
of said constitution, article, ordinances
and propositions, as required by said act,
has been received by me-. sr.
/ Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
| president of the United. States Of Amer.
lea, do, in accordance with the provis-
ions of the act of congress aforesaid, de-
clare and proclaim the fact that the cons
ditions imposed by congress on the state
Of North Dakota, to entitle that state to
admission to the Union have been rati-
fed and accepted, and that the admission
of the said state into the Union is now
i complete. In testimony whereof Thave
hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal Of the United States to he affixed.
/ Done at the city Of Washington this
Cd day of November, lin the year Of our
Lord 1889, and of the Independence OF
the United States of America, the Hath.
il TSeal. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
i By the President.
i JAMES G.. BLAINE,
!. Secretary of State