The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-01-11
UTAH Is NOW A STATE.
Proclamation Declaring the Terri :
tory Member OF the Union issued
by President Cleveland. n

Washington, Jan. 4.-The president
at 10 o'clock this morning signed the
proclamation admitting Utah to slate
hood The proclamation reads as
follows:
BY the President of the UniteeE ssE
of America, a proclamation: g
Whereas, the Congress of the Unite
States passed an act which was APP
proved on the 10th day of July, 1894,
entitled ssAn act to enable the people
of Utah to form Constitution aud
State government, and to be admitted
into the Union on an equal footing
with the original States," which act
provided for the election of delegates
to a constitutional convention to meet
at the seat of gc <ent of the Terri
tory of Utah on the first Monday ia
March, 1895, for the purpose of de-
claring the adoption of The Constitu-
tion of The United States by the people
of the proposed State, and forming
Constitution and State government for
such State.
Whereas, Delegates were accord
ingly elected, who met, organized and
declared on behalf of the people of
said proposed State their adoption of
the Constitution of the United States,
all as provided in said act; and,
Whereas, Said convention, so organ
| lied, did, by ordinance, irrevocable,
without the consent of the United
States and the people of sand State, as
required by said act, provide that per-
feet federation of religious sentiment
shall be secured, and that no inhabitant
of said State shall ever be molested in
person or property on occount of his
or her mode of religious worship, bat
that polygamous or plural marriages
are forever prohibited, and did also, by
said ordinance, make the other various
stipulatIons recited in section three of
said aeI and,
Whereas, Said convention thereupon
formed a Convention and State gov
ernment for said proprosed State,
which Constitution, ncludiug said
ordinance, was duly submitted To the
people thereof at an election held on
the Tuesday next after The first Monday
OF November, 1898, rs directed by said
act; and,
Whereas, The return of said election
has been made and canvassed, and the
lresnIt-lhereof certified TO me, together
with a statement of the votes cast and
Il copy of said Constitution and ordin-
ance, all as provided in said act, show
ing that a majority of the votes law
tully cast at such election was for the
ratification and adoption of said Con-
stitution and ordinance.
And, whereas, The Constitution and
government of said proposed State are
republican in form, said Constitution
is not repugnant to the Constitution of
the United States and the Declaration
of Independence, and all the provis-
ions of said act have been complied
with in the formation of said Constitu-
tion and government;
Now, therefore, /, Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States of
America, in accordance with the act of
Congress aforesaid, and by authority
, thereof, announce the result of said
election to be az so certified, and do
hereby declare and proclaim that the
terms and conditions prescribed by the
Congress of the United States to entitle
the State of Utah to admission into the
Union have been duly complied with,
and that the creation of said State and
! its admission into the Union on an
equal footing with The original States
Is now aecomplishedN
In testimony whereof ! have here