The sun., 1889-11-07


Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that the
area comprising the Territory ofDakota should
for the purposes of the act be divided on 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 south OF
said parallel, should, at the time prescribed III
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 organized, declare on behalf OF
the people OF South Dakota that they adopt the
constitution of the United States whereupon
the said convention should be authorized TO
form a constitution and state government lor
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 distinction i'll civil or poiti-
cal 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 Declaration of Independence,
and the convention should by an ordinance lr-
revocable without the consent of the United
States, and the people OF said states, make GER
tain provisions prescribed i'll said act; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that the
constitution 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 obligate itself to pay its proportion OF
| such debts and liabilities the same as If they
had been created by such states respectively;
and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that at
the election of delegates to the constitutional
convention in South Dakota, as therein pro-
vided, each elector might have written or printed
on his ballot the words, For the Sioux Falls
constitution" or the words Against the Sioux
Falls constitutions" that the votes on this ques-
| tion should be returned and in the same
maner as the votes for the election of delegates;
and if majority of all votes cast on this ques'
tion should be For the Sioux Falls cOnstitu-
ton it should be the duty of the convention
which might assemble at Sioux Falls, as pro-
vided In the act, to resubmit to the people OF
South Dakota, for ratification or rejection, at
an election provided for in said act, the consti-
tuition framed at Sioux Falls and adopted Nov.
3, 1885, and also the articles and propositions
separately submitted at that election, including
| the question of locating the temporary seat of
| government with such changes only related
| to the name and boundary of the proposed
state to the reapportonment of the judicial and
| legislative districts and such amendments as
might be necessary in order to comply with the
provisions of the act, and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act that the
constitution formed for the people of South Da-
kato should by an ordinance of the convention
| forming the same, be submitted to the people of
| South Dakota at an election to be held therein
on the first Tuesday in October, 1889, for fati-
| fication 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 governor
| and chief iOStiPp thereof them
| should canvass the same, and if majority of
the legal votes cast should be for the constitu-
| ton, the governor 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 constitution, articles, propositions and
| ordinances and
| Whereas, 1t has been certified to me by the
| governor of the Territory of Dakota that at the
aforesaid election for delegates the "Sioux Falls
constitution" was submitted to the people of
| the proposed State of South Dakota, as pro-
vided i'll the said act; that majority of all the
votes cast on this question was For the Sioux
Falls constitution and that the said constitu-
| ton was, at the time prescribed in the act, re-
submitted to the people of South Dakota, with
| proper changes and amendments, and has been
| adopted and ratified by majority of the quail
| fled 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 submitted to vote of
| the people two additional articles were sub
mitted separately, to wit: An article numbered
| "a, entitled Prohibition" which received ma
| jorty of all the votes cast for and against said
article, as well as a majority of all the votes
| cast for and against the constitution, and was
| adopted; and an article numbered 25, entitled
Minority representation" which did not receive
a majority of the votes cast thereon nor upon
| the constitution, and was rejected; and
| Whereas, a duly authenticated copy of said
constitution, additional articles, ordinances and
propositions as required by said act, has been
| received by me;
| Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, pres-
dent of the United States of America, do, in ac-
cordance with the act Of congress aforesaid, de-
| clare and proclaim the fact that the conditions
imposed by congress on the state of South Da-
| kota to entitle that state to admission to the
Union have been ratified and accepted and that
| the admission of the said state into the Union
| is now complete.
In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington
this second 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 hundred and
fourteenth.
ISeal.l BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the president.
JAMES G, BLAINE, Secretary Of State.