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 rRocLAMAr1oNs. » Nt. 8. 1553 Washington, should meet at the seat of government of said Terri- ` tory; and that, after they had met and organized they should declare on ehalf of the pegple of Washington that they adopt the Constitution of the United tates; whereupon the said convention should be authorized to form a State Government for the proposed State of, Washington; And whereas it was provided by said act that the Constitution so adopted should be republican in form and make no distinction in civi or political rights on account of race or color, except as to In- Y dians 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 irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of said State make certain provisions prescribed in said act; — And whereas it was provided by said act that the Constitution _? thus formed for the people of Was ington should, by an ordinance of the_Convention forming the same, be submitted to the peodple of Washington at an election to be held therein on the first Tues ay in October, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for ratification or rejection by the diualified voters of said roposed State; and that the returns of said election should be mad}; to the Secretary of said Territory, who, with the Governor and Chief justice thereof, orany two of them, should canvass the same; and if amajorit of the legal votes cast should be for the Constitution. the Governor should certif y the result to the President of the United States, together with a statement of the votes cast thereon, and upon separate articles or prpipositions and a copy of said Constitution, articles, propositions an ordinances; And whereas it has been certified to me by the Governor of said Territory that within the time prescribed by said act of Congress a Constitution for the proposed State of Washington has been adopted and that the same, has been ratified by a majority of the qualiiied voters · of siaid proposed State in accordance with the conditions prescribed in sai act; And whereas it is also certined to me by the said Governor that at the same time the body of said Constitution was submitted to a vote of the people two separate articles entitled “Woman Suffrage " and "Proh.ibition" were likewise submitted, which said separate articles did not receive a majority of the votes cast thereon or upon the Constitution and were rejected; also that at the same election the cpuestion of the location of a permanent seat of government was so su mitted and that no place received a majority of all the votes cast upon said question; _ And whereas a duly authenticated copy of said Constitution and articles, as re uired byésaid act, has been received by me; Now, therefore, I, enjamin Harrison, President of the United mytgcggjgggstg M- States of America, do, in accordance with the tprovisions of the act of ' Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the act that the conditions imposed by Congress on the State of Washington 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. Done at the City of Washington this eleventh (11th; day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousan eight hundred [SEAL.] and eighty-nine, and of the Indeependence of the United States of America the one hundr and fourteenth. BENJ. HARRISON. By the President: J Ames G. BLAINE, Secretary of Stale. STAT L———VOL XXVI———-lr?