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1550 PROCLAMATIONS. No. 6. the Territory of Dakota should, for the purposes of the act, be divided ` ' on the line of the seventh standard parallel produced due west to the western boundary of said Territory, and that the delegates elected as therein rovided to the Constitutional convention in districts south of said) parallel should, at the time prescribed in the act, assemble in convention at the city of Sioux Falls; And whereas it was provided by the said act that the delegates elected as aforesaid should, aftert ey had met and organized, declare on behalf of the people of South Dakota that they a opt the Constitution of the United States; whereupon the said convention should be authorized to form a constitution and State Government for the proposed State of South Dakota; And whereas it was provided by said act that the constitution so ado ted should be republican in form, and make no distinction in civil) or political rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed, and not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence; and that the convention should, by an ordinance irrevocab e without the consent of·the United States and the people of said States, make certain provisions prescribed in said act; And whereas it was provided by said act that the constitutions of North Dakota and South Dakota should, respectively, incorporate an agreement to be reached in accordance with the provisions of the act, for an equitable division of all propterty belonging to the Territory of Dakota, the disposition of al u lic records, and also for the apportionment of the debts and liabilities of said Territory, and that each of said States should obligate itself to pay its proportion of such debts and liabilities the same as if they had been created by such States respectively; And whereas it was provided by said act that at the election for delegates to the constitutional convention in South Dakota, as ' therein rovided, each elector might have written or printed on his ballot the words "For the Sioux Falls constitution,’ or the words " against the Sioux Falls constitution; " that the votes on this question should be returned and canvassed in the same manner 'as the votes for the election of delegates; and, if a ma`ority of all votes cast on this question should be "for the Sioux Falls constitution " it_ should be the duty of the convention which might assemble at Sioux Falls, as provided in the act, to re·submit to the people of South Dakota, for ratification or rejection, at an election provided for m said act, the constitution framed at Sioux Falls and adopted Noyember third, eighteen hundred and eighty-ve, and also the articles and propositions separately submitted at that election, including the ques ion of locating the temporary seat of government, with such changes only as related to the name and boundary of the Lrqposed State, to the reapportionment of the judicial and legist1ve districts, and such amendments as might be necessary in order to comply with the provisions of the act; And whereas it was provided by said act that the constitution formed for the people of South Dakota should, by an ordinance of the convention orming the same, be submitted to the people of South Dakota_at an election to be held therein on the first Tuesday m_ October, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for ratincation or rejection by the qualified voters of said ro sed State, and that the returns of said election should be made its the Secretary of the Territory of Dakota, who, with the Governor and Chief Justice thereof, or any two of them, should canvass the same, and if a majority of the legal votes cast should be for the constitution the Governor should certify the result to the President of the United States, together with a statement of the votes cast thereon and upon Separate articles_ or propositions, and a copy of said constitution, articles, propositions an ordinances;