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SOVEREIGN STATES.
Laat Act in the Admission of
North and South Dakota.
Proclamations Issued Declaring
Them Members of the Union.

President Harrison has issued proclama-
tions admitting North and South Dakota 10
the Union of States 1t was expected that
the President would withhold his proclama-
ton Until all four of the new common
wealtl,s could come together General Har-
-ison said the returns from both the Dakotas
were in and there was no occasion lor
further delay in the matter. AS
soon rs the returns from washington
are received the proclamation admit
ting her will be issued and so. too. with
Montana, when the present political COM
plications shall have been Strengthened out
The following dispatch was sent from the
Executive Mansion by Secretary Blaine to
Governors Mellette and Miller, OF North ana
South Dakota, Bismarck. North Dakota:
1.-The last act in the admission OF the TWO
Dakotas as States in the Union was completed
this afternoon at the Executive Mansion at
3 O'Clock and forty minutes by the President
signing at that moment the proclamatlons
REQUIRED by the law for the admission OF the
two States The article on prohibition, SUBJ
mitted separately i'll each State was adopCed
in both. The article providing for minority
representation in South Dakota was re1ec1eo
oy the people. This is the first instance IN
She history of the National Government OF
5win States, North and South Dakota, enter
ing the Union al the same moment.
In the proclamation admitting North
Dakota the President says:
s.Whereas it has been certified to me by
The Governor of the Territory of Dakota
that within the time prescribed by act OF
Congress a constitution for the proposed
State of North Dakota has been adopted and
the same ratified by majority of the quail
tied voters of said proposed State IN accord.
ance with the conditions prescribed IN SAID
act:
"Aud whereas it is also certified to me by
the said Governor that at the same time thaG
the body of said constitution was submitted
to vote of the people, a separate artlcle
numbered twenty. and entitled 'Prohloiuon,
was also submitted and received majority
of all the votes cast for and against said ar
ticle as we'll as majority of all the votes
cast for and against the constitution, and
was adopted
land whereas n duly authenticated copy
of said constitution, article, ordinances and
propositions es required by said act, has been
received by me.
.'Now, therefore. I, Benjamin Harrison,
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 North Dakota to en-
title 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 the proclamation admitting Soutn
Dakota the President says:
Whereas it has been certified to me by
the Governor OF the Territory of Dakota that
at the election for delegates the sioux
Falls Constitution was submitted to the peo-
pie of the proposed State of South Dakota
as provided in the said act; that majority
of all the votes cast on this question
@lo oil
and that the said constitution
was at the time prescribed in the act
resubmitted to the people of South Dakota,
with proper changes and amendments, and
has been adopted and ratified by majority
of the qualified voters of said proposed State
in accordance with the conditions prescribed,
in said act:
and whereas it is also certified to me by
the said Governor that ct the same time that
the body of said constitution was submitted
to a vote of the people, two additional artl-
cles were submitted separately, to wit:
An article numbered twenty-four, entitled
Prohibition which receives majority
Of all the votes cast for and against said artl-
Gle, as well as a majority of all the votes
cast for and against the constitution, and was
adopted, and an article numbered twenty
I've entitled Minority Representation,
which did not receive a majority OF the votes
cast theron or upon the constitution and was
rejected.
HAnd whereas q duly authenticated copy
of said constitution, additional articles, ordl-
nances and propositions as required by said
act, has been received by me
Now, therefore, l, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do, in accordance with the act OF Congress
aforesaid declare and proclaim the fact that
the conditions imposed by Congress on the
State of South Dakota to entitle that State
to admission to the Union have been ratified
and accepted, and that the admission of the
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