Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-03

e1'iuou ~ bhlu ACT, become the States of
North Dakota and South Dakota, and
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by said act
1naS SAID area comprising the Territory
OF Dakota should for the purposes of the
act be divided on the line of the seventh
standard parallel produced west to the
western boundary Of said Territory, and
tnat the delegates elected as therein pro.
vioed TO the constitutional convention
IN the districts south of the parallel
should at the time prescribed in the act
assemble In convention at the citv of
Sioux Falls; and
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by the
said act that the delegates elected as
aforesaid, should, after they met and or
ganized, declare, on behalf of the people
|of South Dakota, that they adopt the
Constitution of the United States. where
upon said convention should be author
lied to form constitution and State
government for the purpose of the State
of South Dakota; and
WHEREAS. 1t was provided by said act
that the constitution 80 adopted should
he republican in form, and make no dig
tinction in civil or political rights on &C.
count OF race or color, except as to In.
dians not taxed, and not to be repugnant
to the Constitution of the United States
and the principles of the Declaration of
Independence, and that the constitution
should be irrevocable without the con-
sent of the United States and the people
OF said States should make certain pro-
visions prescribed in said act; and
| WHEREAS, 1t was provided by the said
act that the constitutions of North Dakota
and South Dakota should respectively
incorporate an agreement to be reached
in accordance with the provisions 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 ebligate itself
to pay it's proportion of such debts and
liabilities the same as if they had been
created by such States respectively ; and
WHEREAS, TWAS provided by the said
act that at the election for delegates to the
Constitutional Convention in South Da-
kota, as therein provided, each elector
might have written or printed on his
ballot the words "For the Sioux Falls
Constitution" or the worde, "Against
the Sioux Falls Constitution; that the
votes on this question should be returned
aud canvassed in the same manner as the
votes for the election of delegates,
and if the majority of all the
votes cast on this question should
be for the Sioux Falls constitution il
should be the duty of the convention
which might assemble at Sioux Falls
as is provided in the act to submit to the
people of South Dakot for ratification
or rejection at an election provided for
in the said act the constitution framed
at Sioux Falls and adopted Novem ber 8,
1885, and also the articles and PROPOSE
tions separately submitted at the State
elections, including the question
OF locating the temporary seal
of government, with such changes
only as related to the name and
boundary of the proposed State, to the
reapportionment of Judicial and legisla.
tive districts and such amendments as
might be necessary in order to comply
with the provisions of the act.
WHEREAS, 1t was provided by the sale
act that the constitution formed for the
people OF South Dakota should be an or
dinance of the convention forming the
same to be submitted to the people o.
South Dakota at an election to be helc
on the first Tuesday in October, 1887, fol
ratification or rejection by the qualified
voters OF the said proposed State, and
THAT the returns Of said election should be
made to the Secretary of the Territory O
Dakota, who with the Governor anc
Chief Justice thereof, or any two of them
should CANVASS the same, and if major.
ity of the legal votes cast should be f.,
the constitution the Governor should Ger.
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United States, together with statement
OF the votes cast thereon and upon its
separate articles or propositions, and 6
copy OF said constitution, articles, propo
sitions and ordinances; and
WHEREAS, 1t has been certified to me
by the Governor OF the Territory ol
Dakota that at the aforesaid election 70,
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 were ''for the
Sioux Falls Constitution ;" that said con.
stitution was at the time prescribed in
the act re-submitted to the people OF
South Dakota with the proper changes
and amendments and has now been
adopted and ratified by the majority Of
the qualified voters Of said proposed State
in accordance with the conditions pre-
scribed 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, two
additional articles were submitted sepa-
rately, to-wit: An article numbered
"a, entitled"Prohibition," (which received
majority OF all the votes cast for and
against said article, as we'll as a majority
OF all the votes cast for and against the
constitution, and was adopted. An arti.
Gle numbe twenty-five, entitled, "Mi-
nority Representation" which did not
receive maj j,rity of the votes cast
thereon, or upon the constitution and
was rejected; and
WHEREAS, A duly authenticated copy
OF the said constitution, additional arti-
cles. ordinances and propositions, as re-
quired by the said act, has been received
by me. Now, therefore, I, BENJAMIN
Harrison, President of the United States
OF America, do, in accordance with the
act OF Congress aforesaid, declare and pro-
claim the fact that the conditions imposed
by Congress on the State of South Dakota
to entitle that State to admission to the
MON have been ratified and accepted.
and that the admission 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 of
America to be affixed.