Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-03

should obligate itself 20 pay its proportion
of such debts and liabilities, the same as II
they had bed erected by such states re-
spectively; d'd
Whereas, ID was provided by said act that
at the electigf for delegates TO the constitu-
tionai convention in South Dakota therein
provided each elector might have written or
printed on his ballot words (for the Sioux
Falls constitution that the votes on this
question sholhdb be returned aud canvassed
in the same ibpsher rs votes for selection of
delegates. ana " majority OF oil tho votes
cast on this question should he (tor the Sioux
Falls constitution) II should be the duty OF
the conventions which might assemble at
Sioux Falls, das nprovided in the act, TO re-
submit to the people OF South Dakota, for
ratification or rejection, at an election pro-
vided for it, said act OF the constitution
framed at Sioux Falls and adopted Novem-
Der third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,
and also the articles and propositions separ-
ately submitted at that election, including
the question of locating the temporary seat
of government, with such changes only as
related to the name and boundary Of the
proposed state, TO the reappointment OF
judicial and legislative districts and such
amendments as might be necessary in order
to comply with the provisions OF TIE act;
and,
Whereas, IL was provided by
said act tnat the constitution formed for the
people of South Dakota should, by an ordi-
nance OF the convention forming the same,
at an election to be held on the first Tuesday
in October, $780, for ratification or rejection
by the qualified voters of SAID proposed state
and that the returns of said election should
be returned to the secretary OF the territory
of Dakota, who, with the governor and
chief justices, or any two OF them, should
canvass the same, and If q majority of the
legal votes cast should be for the constitu-
tion the governor should certify the same to
the president of the United States, together
w n gtatpmpnt q m the yntpg raSt thprnOn.
and upon the separate articles or PROPOSE
tions, and copy OF said constitution, arti-
cles, propositions aud ordinances; and
Whereas, 1t has been certified to me by
the governor of the territory of Dakota that
at the aforesaid election for delegates ito
the Sioux Falls constitution) it was sub
mitted to the people of the proposed state
of South Dakota, as provided In said act
that IN ajority of all the votes cast on this
question was ''for the Sioux Fails constitu.
tion;" that said constitution was, at the time
prescribed IN the act, resubmitted to the
people Of South Dakota, with proper
adopted and ratified by major.
ity Of the qualified voters of
said proposed state in accordance
with the conditions prescribed in said act;
and,
Whereas, It is also certified by the said
governor that at the same time the body of
said constitution was submitted to vote of
the people two additional articles were sub
mitted separately. to wit: An article num-
"a. entitled prohibition" which received a
majority of all the votes cast for and against
article, as well as a majority of all votes cast
for and against the constitution, and was
adopted. and an article numbered 25, en-
titled minority Representation" which did
not receive Il majority of the votes Ca st
theron or upon the constitution and was re-
jected; and,
Whereas, duly authenticated copy of
said constitution, and the additional articles,
ordinances and propositions required by said
act, have been received by me,
Now, therefore, / Benjamin Harrison,
president of theiUnited 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 enttle that state
to admission into the union have been rati-
fled and accepted, and that the admission of
said state into the union is now complete
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
| my hand md teaused 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 eight nine,
and of the stldependence of the United
States of America the one hundred and four
teenth. 3r
(SeaD BENJAMIN HARRISON,
BY the President: JAMES G. BLAINE Sec.
retary State,