The Russellville Democrat., 1889-11-14
ANOTHER SISTER.
Proclamation of the President Admitting
Montana Into the Union of States.

Proclamation of the President Admitting
Montana Into the Union of States.
WASHINGTON, Nov. s.-The President
at i0;40 o'clock this morEsng issued the
following 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 Territory of Montana
might,upon conditions prescribed in said act,
become the State of Montana; and
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by said act that
the delegates elected, as therein provided, to
a constitutional convention in the Territory
of Montana should meet at the seat of the
government of said Territory and that after
they had met and organized they should de-
clare, on behalf of the people of Montana,
that they adopted the Constitution of the
United States whereupon the said conyen-
ton should be authorized to form State
government for the proposed State of Mon
tana; and
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by said act that
the constitution so adopted should be re-
publican in form, and make no distinction in
civil or political rights on account of race or
color, except as to Indians not taxed, and
not be repugnant to the Constitution of the
United States and the principles of the Dec
laratlon of Independence; and that the con.
vention should, by an ordinance irreyocable
without the consent of the United States and
the people of said State, 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 Montana should, by an ordinance of the
convention forming the same, be submitted
to the people of Montana at an election
TO be held therein on the first Tues
day In october, eighteen hundred and
eighty nine, for ratification or rejection
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and that the returns of said election should
be made to the Secretary of the Territory,
who, with the Governor and Chief Justice
thereof, or any two of them, should canvass
the same; and If majority of the legal votes
cast should be for the Constitution, the Gov
ernor should certify the result to the Presi-
dent of the United States, together with a
statement of the votes cast thereon. and upon
separate 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 Mon
tana has been adopted, and the same, to-
gether with two ordinances connected there
with, has been ratified by majority OF the
qualified voters of said proposed State, in
accordance with the conditions prescribed
in said act and
WHEREAS, A duly authenticated copy OF
said Constitution and ordinance, as required
by said act, has been received by me.
Now, therefore, 1, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do, in accordance with the provisions of the
act of Congress aforesaid, declare and pro-
claim the fact that the conditions imposed
by Congress on the State of Montana to en-
title that State to admission to the Union
have been ratified and accepted, and that
the admission of said State into the Union is
now completed.
In witness, whereof, have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this, the
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 hun
dred and fourteenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.