atified by a majority of the
qualified voters of said proposed State in accordance with the
conditions prescribed in said act; and

Whereas it is also certified to me by the said governor that at the
same time that the body of said constitution was submitted to a vote
of the people two additional articles were submitted separately, to
wit, an article numbered 24, entitled "Prohibition," which received a
majority of all the votes cast for and against said article, as well
as a majority of all the votes cast for and against the constitution,
and was adopted; and an article numbered 25, entitled "Minority
representation," which did not receive a majority of the votes cast
thereon or upon the constitution, and was rejected; and

Whereas a duly authenticated copy of said constitution, additional
articles, ordinances, and propositions, as required by said act, has
been received by me:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United 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 entitle that State to admission to the Union
have been ratified and accepted and that the admission of the said
State into the Union is now complete.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 2d day of November, A.D. 1889, and
of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
fourteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the Congress of the United States did by an act approved
on the 22d day of February, 1889, provide that the inhabitants of the
Territory of Montana might upon the conditions prescribed in said act
become the State of Montana; and

Whereas it was provided by said act that delegates elected as therein
provided to a constitutional convention in the Territory of Montana
should meet at the seat of government of said Territory, and that after
they had met and organized they should declare on behalf of the people
of Montana that they adopt the Constitution of the United States,
whereupon the said convention should be authorized to form a State
government for the proposed State of Montana; and

Whereas it was provided by said a