The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-05
UTAH REJOICES.
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washington. d. c., Jan. 4.-The pres
ident at 10 o'clock this morning signed
the proclamation admitting Utah to
statehood The proclamation is as fol-
lows:
BY the president Of the United States
OF America a proclamation: Whereas,
the congress of the United States
passed an act which was approved the
sixteenth day of July, 1894, entitled,
IAN act to enable the people of Utah to
form a constitution and state govern
ment and to be admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the
original states" which provide for the
election of delegates to a constitutional
convention to meet at the seat OF gov
eminent of the territory of Utah on the
first day of March. 1895. for the purpose
of declaring the adoption of the con-
stitution of the United States by the
people of the proposed state and form
ing constitution and state govern
ment for such state.
Whereas, the delegates were accord
ingly elected who met. organized and
declared on behalf of the people OF said
proposed state their adoption of the
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as provided in said act. and,
Whereas, said convention. so organ
lied. did by ordinance irrevocable with
out the consent of the United States
and people of said state, as required by
said act. provide that perfect tolera-
ton of religious sentiment shall be Sc
cured and that no inhabitant of said
d state shall ever be molested in person
of his her
mode of religious worship, but that
! nolvgamous or plural marriages are
: forever prohibited and did also by said
d. ordinance make other various stipula-
lions. recited in section three of said
act and.
Whereas. said convention thereupon
formed a constitution including said
ordinance which was duly submit
ted to the people thereof at an election
held on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of November. 1895, as directed
by said act, and,
! Whereas. the return of said election
has been made and canvassed and the
result thereof certified to me together
with a statement of the votes cast and
| n conv of said constitution and ordin-
ance as all provided in said act, show
ing that a majority of the said votes
lawfully cast at such election was for
the ratification and adoption or SAID
constitution and ordinance and, s.
Whereas. the constitution and gov
eminent of said proposed state are re-
nubIican in form, said constitution Is
not repugnant to the constitution OF
the limited States and the declaration
of independence, and all provisions OF
said act have been complied with II
tho formation of said constitution anc
government, now,
therefore. 1, Grover Cleveland, pres
ident of the United States of Americs
in accordance with the act Of congress
aforesaid. and by the authority thereo
announce the result of said election U
} he as so certified and do hereby declar'
and proclaim that the terms and condi
tions prescribed by the congress or IN
; limited states to entitle the state
Utah to admission into the Union
, have been duly complied with and tina
: the creation of said state and its al
r mission into the Union on an equa
! footing with the original states Is nov
accomplished
Tn testimony whereof, I have heret
set nv hand and caused the seal
the United States to be affixed. Don
= al the city of Washington this fourt
: dav of January, In the year OF GU
e Lord one thousand eight hundred an
b ninety-six. and of the independence
d the United States of America the on
; hundred and twentieth.
q (Signed) Grover CieVeianu'
> President.
Richard Olney.
| <oN Secretarv of State,