Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-11-08
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

Following Is the Text of the Proclama-
tion Admitting South Dakota.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES. A PROCLAMATION:
Whereas, The congress of the United
States did, by an act approved on the
twenty y-second day of February, one
thousand, eight hundred and eighty
nine, provide that the inhabitants Of the
Territory of Dakota might, upon the
conditions prescribed in said act, become
the states of North Dakota and South
Dakota; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the area comprising the Territory of
Dakota should, for the purposes of the
act, be divided on the line of 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 conven-
ton in districts south of said parallel,
should at the time prescribed in the act,
assemble ia convention ct 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 organ
lied, declare on behalf of the people OF
South Dakota that they adopt the consti-
tuition of the United States, whereupOn
the convention should be authorized to
form a constitution and state govern
ment for 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 dis
tinction in civil or political rights on ac-
count of race or color, except as to In
dians not taxed, and not be repugnant
to the constitution of the United States
and the principles of the Declaration OF
Independence, and that the convention
should by an ordinance irrevocable with
out the consent Of the United States, and
the people of said states, make certain
provisions prescribed in said act; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that the constitutions of North and South
Dakota should respectively incorporate
an agreement, to be reached in accord
ance with the provisions of the act, fol
an equitable division of all the property
belonging to the Territory of Dakota, the
disposition of all public records, and the
apportionment of all the debts and liza
bilities of said territory, and that each OF
said states should obligate itself to pay
its proportion of such debts and liabili
ties, the same as if they had been created
by such states respectively; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said act
that at the election for delegates to tht
constitutional convention in South Da
kota, as therein provided, each electol
might have written or printed on his bal
lot the words "For the Sioux Falls con
stitution," or the words Against th'
Sioux Falls constitutions" that the vote'
on this question should be returned ant
canvassed in the same manner as th'
votes for the election of delegates; and i
a majority Of all votes cast on this ques
ton should be "For the Sioux Falls con
| stitution," it should he the duty Of tb'
convention which might assemble q
Sioux Falls, as provided in the act to re
submit to the people of South Dakota, TO
ratification or rejection, at an election
provided for in said act, the constitution
framed at Sioux Falls and adopted Nc
vember 8, 1886, and also the articles an,
propositions separately submitted at tina
election, including the question of locat
ing the temporary seat of government
with such changes only as related to tn
name and boundary of the proposes
state, to the reapportionment of the Ju
dicial and legislative districts, and sue
amendments as might be necessary il
order to comply with the provisions
the act; and
Whereas, 1t was provided by said &C
that the constitution formed for the pee
ple of South Dakota should by an ord