, 1889-02-28

the constitution which may be submitted
for ratification or rejection at the election
provided therefor, the governor Of the ter
ritory in which such proposed constitution
was rejected shall issue his proclamation
reconvening the delegates elected to the
convention which formed such rejected
constitution, fixing the time and place at
which said delegates shalt assemble; and
when 80 assembled they shall proceed to
rejected constitution, and shall submit
such new constitution or amended consti-
tuition to the people of the proposed state
for ratification or rejection, at such time
as said convention may determine; and all
the provisions Of this act, so far as APP
plicable, shall apply to such convention so
reassembled and to the constitution which
may be formed its ratification or rejec.
tion, and to the admission OF the proposed
states.
Sec. 8. That the constitutional conven.
tion which may assemble In South Dakota
shall provide bv ordinance for re-su6mit-
ting the Sioux Falls constitution OF 1888,
after having amended the same as provid-
ed in section 5 of this act to the people of
South Dakota for ratification or rejection
at an election to be held therein on the
first Tuesday in October, 1889; but is said
constitutional convention is authorized
and required to form o new constitution
for South Dakota it shall provide for sub
mitting the same in like manner to the
people of South Dakota for ratification or
rejection at an election to be held in said
proposed state on the said first Tuesday in
October. And the constitutional conven-
tions which may assemble in North Dako.
ia, Montana and w Washington shall provide
in like monner for submitting the constitu-
tions formed by them to the people OF said
proposed states, respectively, for ratitica-
tion or rejection Mt elections to be held in
said proposed states on the said first Tues
day in Octo.er. At the elections provided
for in this section the qualified voters of
said proposed states shall vote directly for
or against the proposed constitutions: and
fol or against any articles or propositions
separately submitted. The returns of said
elections shall be made to the secretary of
governor and chief justice thereof, or any
two Of them, shall canvass the same; and
If a majority of the legal votes cast shall
be for the constitution the governor shall
certify the result to the president
of the United States, together with
statement of the votes cast there
on and upon separate articles or
propositions, and copy OF said
constitution, articles, proportions and or.
dinances. And il the constitutions and
governments of said proposed states are
republican in form, and il all the provi-
sions of this act have been complied with
in the formation thereof, it shall be the
duty of the president of the United States
to issue his proclamation announcing the
result of the election in each, aud there
upon the proposed states which have
adopted constitutions and formed state
governments as herein provided shall be
deemed admitted iby congress into. the
union under and by virtue of this adt on
an equal footing with the original states
from and after the date Of said proclama-
ton.
Sec. 8. That until the next general CEN
sus, or until otherwise provided by law,
said states shall be entitled to one repre-
sentative in the house of representatives of
the United States. except South Dakota;
which shall be entitled to two; and the
representatives to the Fifty-6rst congress,
together with the governors and other oth-
GERS provided for in said constitutions,
may be elected on the same day of the
election for the ratification or rejection of
the constitutions; and until said state
officers are elected and qualified under the
provisions of each constitution and the
states, respectively, are admitted into the
union, the territorial officers shall continue
offices in each of said territories.
Sec. 10. That upon the admission of
each of said states into the union sections
numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every
township of said proposed states. and
where such sections, or any parts thereof,
have been sold or otherwise disposed of by
or under the authority of any act of con-
gress, other lands equivalent thereto, in
legal subdivisions of not ess than one
quarter section, and as contiguous as may
be to the section in lieu of which the same
is taken, are hereby granted to said states
for the support of common schools, such
indemnity lands to be selected within said
states in such manner as the Legislature
may provide with the approval of the sec
retary of the interior: Provided, that ths
sixteenth and thirty.sixth sections EN-
braced in permanent reservations for ma
tional purposes shall not, at any time, b'
subject to the grants nor to the indemnity
provisions of this act, nor shall any land
embraced in Indian, military or other res
ervations of any character, be subject Il
| the grants or to the indemnity provision
Of this act until the reservation shall hav,
been extinguished and such lands be re-
stored to, and become part of, the publ
domain.
Sec. IL. That all lands herein granite,
for educational purposes shall DO dispose,
of only at public sale, and at price no
less than $40 per acre, the proceeds to con
stitute permanent school fund, the in
terest of which only shall De expended il
the support of said schools. But sal
lands may, under such regulations as tn
legislatures shall prescribe, be leased TO
periods of not more than five years, i
quantities not exceeding one section to an
one person or company, and such Ian
shall not be subjectto preemption, home
stead entry, or any other entry under tn
land laws of the United States, whethe
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