Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-06
A NEW STATE.
Utah Formally Admitted to Sisterhood
in the Union, January 5.
President Cleveland Makes the Usual Pfocla
nation Announcing That Event. 50

Washington, Jan. 5-The President has
slgneu the proclamation admitting utan
to statehood. The proclamation reads IA
follows:
Whereas, the congress passed An act which
was approved Oh July IS, 1894, entitled An act
to enable the people of Utah to form constitu
non and state government, and to be admitted
INTO the mon on an equal footing with the
original states, which act provided for th9
election of delegates to a constitutional con
Ventlon to NEE: at the seat of government of
the territory OF Utah the first Monday in
March, 1873, for the purpose of declaring tho
adoption OF the constitution of the United
States by the people of the proposed state and
forming a constitution and state government
for such state and
whereas delegates We're accordingly elected
who met, organized and declared on behalf of
the people of said proposed state their adop-
uon OF the constitution of the United States
as provided III said act, and
Whereas said convention, so organized, did
oy ordinance. irrevocably without the consent
Oh the United states and the people of said
state as required by said act, provide that per
Iect liberation of religious sentiment shall be
secured and that no inhabitant of said state
sn'ui ever be molested in person or property
on account of his OF her mode of religious
worship, but that polygamous or plural MAJ
rlageS are forever prohibited and did also by
SAID ordinance make the other various stipula.
uons recited in section three of said act and
whereas said convention thereupon formed
constitution and state government for said
proposed state, which constitution, including
sio ordinance, was duly submitted to the PEG
pie there at an election held on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday of November, 1875,
as directed by said act; and
whereas, the return of said election has
N aIn :
me, together with copy of said constitution
and ordnance, all provided in said act
showing thata majority of the votes lawfully
cast at such election was for the ratification
and adoption Of said constitution and ordi-
nance and
Whereas, the constitution and government
Of said proposed state, are Republican form
sad constitution is not repugnaut to the CON
sltUtlon OF the United States and the declar.l-
ton OF the Independence and all the provisions
OF sand act have been compiled with in the
formation OF sad constitution and govern
Met; now, therefore, /. Grover Cleveland.
president Of the United States of America in
accordance with the act OF congress afore said
ana by authority thereof, annujslce the result
OF sad election to be as 50 certified and DO
hereby declare and proclaim that the terms
ana conditions prescribed by the congress Of
the United States to entite the state Of Utah
to admission into the Union have leen duly
complied with, and that the creation Of said
state and its admission to the Union on an
equal footing with the original states is now
accomplished
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto st
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this fourth
Gay OF January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand light hundred ana nnety-six, and OF
the Independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and twentieth
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY Secretary of State