XIX.

PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, MARCH 21, 1889-
MARCH 25, 1890.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF above provided, and that all vessels so employed,

The following provisions of the law of the In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my United States are hereby published for the in-hand and caused the seal of the United States to formation of all concerned.

cession and agreement were duly accepted, | provided further, That each entry shall be in
ratified and confirmed by said Muscogee (or square form as nearly as practicable, and no
Creek) Nation of Indians by act of its council, person be permitted to enter more than one-
approved on the thirty-first day of January, quarter section thereof, but until said lands are
eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and by the opened for settlement by proclamation of the
United States by act of Congress, approved President, no person shall be permitted to enter
March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, upon and occupy the same, and no person
and
violating this provision shall ever be permitted
to enter any of said lands or acquire any right
thereto."

Whereas, by Section twelve of the Act, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, a sum of money was appropriated to pay in full the Seminole Nation of Indians for all the right, title, interest and claim which said Nation of Indians might have in and to certain lands ceded by article three of the treaty between the United States and said Nation of Indians, concluded June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and proclaimed August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, said appropriation to become operative upon the execution by the duly appointed delegates of said Nation, specially empowered to do so, of a release and conveyance to the United States of all right, title, interest and claim of said Nation of Indians, in and to said lands, in manner, and form, satisfactory to the President of the United States, and

Whereas, said release and conveyance, bearing date the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, has been duly and fully executed, approved and delivered, and

Whereas, Section thirteen of the Act last aforesaid, relating to said lands, provides as follows:

That all the foregoing provisions with reference to lands to be acquired from the Seminole Indians, including the provisions pertaining to forfeiture, shall apply to and regulate the disposal of the lands acquired from the Muscogee or Creek Indians by articles of cession and agreement made and concluded at the city of Washington, on the nineteenth day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-nine."

Now therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by said Act of Congress, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eightynine, aforesaid, do hereby DECLARE AND MAKE KNOWN, that so much of the lands, aforesaid," acquired from or conveyed by the Muscogee (or Creek) Nation of Indians, and from or by the Seminole Nation of Indians, respectively, as is contained within the following described boundaries, viz:

Beginning at a point where the degree of longitude ninety-eight west from Greenwich, as "SEC. 13. That the lands acquired by the surveyed in the years eighteen hundred and fiftyUnited States under said agreement shall be a eight and eighteen hundred and seventy-one, part of the public domain, to be disposed of only intersects the Canadian River; thence, north as herein provided, and sections sixteen and along and with the said degree to a point where thirty-six of each township, whether surveyed or the same intersects the Cimarron River; thence, unsurveyed, are hereby reserved for the use and up said river, along the right bank thereof, to a benefit of the public schools, to be established point where the same is intersected by the south within the limits of said lands under such con-line of what is known as the Cherokee lands lyditions and regulations as may be hereafter enacted by Congress."

"That the lands acquired by conveyance from the Seminole Indians hereunder, except the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, shall be disposed of to actual settlers under the homestead laws only, except as herein otherwise provided (except that section two thousand three hundred and one of the Revised Statutes shall not apply): And provided further, That any who having attempted to, but for any cause, failed to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing law, or who made entry under what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law, shall be qualified to make a homestead entry upon said lands: And provided further, That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors in the late civil war as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes shall not be abridged: And

ing west of the Arkansas River or as the "Cher-
okee Outlet," said line being the north line of
the lands ceded by the Muscogee (or Creek)
Nation of Indians to the United States by the
treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six; thence, east along said line to a point
where the same intersects the west line of the
lands set apart as a reservation for the Pawnee
Indians by Act of Congress approved April tenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy six, being the
range line between ranges four and five east of
the Indian Meridian; thence, south on said line
to a point where the same intersects the middle
of the main channel of the Cimarron River;
thence, up said river, along the middle of the
main channel thereof, to a point where the same
intersects the range line between range one east
and range one west (being the Indian Meridian),
which line forms the western boundary of the
reservations set apart respectively for the Iowa
and Kickapoo Indians, by Executive Orders,

The Centennial Proclamation, April 4, 1889.

OF AMERICA.
A Proclamation:

A hundred years have passed since the Government which our forefathers founded was formally organized. At noon on the thirtieth day of April, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine. in the city of New York, and in the presence of an assemblage of the heroic men whose patriotic devotion had led the Colonies to victory and independence, George Washington took the oath of office as Chief Magistrate of the new-born Republic. This impressive act was preceded, at nine o'clock in the morning, in all the churches of the city, by prayer for God's blessing on the Government and its first President.

dated, respectively, August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; thence, south along said range line or meridian to a point where the same intersects the right bank of the North Fork BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES of the Canadian River; thence, up said river, along the right bank thereof, to a point where the same is intersected by the west line of the reservation occupied by the Citizen Band of Pottawatomies, and the Absentee Shawnee Indians, set apart under the provisions of the treaty of February twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, between the United States and the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians, and referred to in the Act of Congress approved May twenty-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-two; thence, south along the said west line of the aforesaid reservation to a point where the same intersects the middle of the main channel of the Canadian River; thence, up the said river, along the middle of the main channel thereof, to a point opposite to the place of beginning; and thence north to the place of beginning (saving and excepting one acre of land in square form in the northwest corner of section nine, in township sixteen north, range two west, of the Indian Meridian in Indian Territory, and also one acre of land in the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of section fifteen, township sixteen north, range seven west, of the Indian Meridian in the Indian Territory; which last described two acres are hereby reserved for Government use and control), will, at and after the hour of twelve o'clock, noon, of the twenty-second day of April, next, and not before, be open for settlement, under the terms of, and subject to, all the conditions, limitations and restrictions contained in said Act of Congress, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto.

And it is hereby expressly DECLARED AND MADE KNOWN that no other parts or portions of the lands embraced within the Indian Territory than those herein specifically described, and declared to be open to settlement at the time above named and fixed, are to be considered as open to settlement under this Proclamation or Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, aforesaid; and

WARNING is hereby again expressly given, that no person entering upon and occupying said lands before said hour of twelve o'clock, noon, of the twenty-second day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, hereinbefore fixed, will ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any rights thereto; and that the officers of the United States will be required to strictly enforce the provision of the Act of Congress to the above effect.

The centennial of this illustrious event in our history has been declared a general holiday by Act of Congress, to the end that the people of the whole country may join in commemorative exercises appropriate to the day.

In order that the joy of the occasion may be associated with a deep thankfulness in the minds of the people for all our blessings in the past, and a devout supplication to God for their gracious continuance in the future, the representatives of the religious creeds, both Christian and Hebrew, have memorialized the Government to designate an hour for prayer and thanksgiving on that day.

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, in response. to this pious and reasonable request, do recommend that on Tuesday, April 30th, at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning, the people of the entire country repair to their respective places of Divine worship, to implore the favor of God that the blessings of liberty, prosperity and peace may abide with us as a people, and that His hand may lead us in the paths of righteousness and good deeds.

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

Done in the City of Washington this 4th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth.

[SEAL.] BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:

JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. Admission of South Dakota, November 2, 1889.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES to be affixed.

OF AMERICA.

A Proclamation :

Whereas the Congress of the United States did, by an act approved on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, provide that the inhabitants of the Territory of Dakota might, upon the conditions prescribed in the said act, become the States of North Dakota and South Dakota;

And whereas it was provided by said act that | Dakota should, by an ordinance of the conventhe area comprising the Territory of Dakota tion forming the same, be submitted to the peoshould, for the purposes of the act, be divided ple of South Dakota at an election to be held on the line of the seventh standard parallel pro- therein on the first Tuesday in October, eighteen duced due west to the western boundary of said hundred and eighty-nine, for ratification or reTerritory, and that the delegates elected as jection by the qualified voters of said proposed therein provided to the Constitutional convention State, and that the returns of said election should in districts south of said parallel should. at the be made to the Secretary of the Territory of time prescribed in the act, assemble in conven- Dakota, who, with the Governor and Chief tion at the city of Sioux Falls; 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 and ordinances;

And whereas it was provided by the said act that the delegates elected as aforesaid should, after they had met and organized, declare on behalf of the people of South Dakota that they adopt 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 adopted 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 irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of said States, make certain provisions prescribed in said act;

And whereas it has been certified to me by the Governor of the Territory of Dakota that at the aforesaid election for delegates the "Sioux Falls constitution was submitted to the people of the proposed State of South Dakota, as provided in the said act; that a majority of all the votes cast on this question was "for the Sioux Falls constitution;" and that the said constitution was, at the time prescribed in the act, resubmitted to the people of South Dakota, with proper changes and amendments, and has been adopted and ratified 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 twenty

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 property belonging to the Territory of Dakota, the disposition of all public records, and also for the apportionment of the debts and lia-four, entitled "Prohibition," which received a bilities 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 provided, 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 majority 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 in said act, the constitution framed at Sioux Falls and adopted November third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and also the articles and propositions separately submitted at that election, including the question of locating the temporary seat of government, with such changes only as related to the name and boundary of the proposed State, to the reapportionment of the judicial and legislative 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

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 twenty-five, entitled Minority Representation," which did not receive a majority of the votes cast thereon or upon the constitution and was rejected;

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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 witness 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 second day
of November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and
of the Independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and fourteenth.
[SEAL.] BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.

Admission of North Dakota, November 2, | tion, the Governor should certify the result to the President of the United States, together with a statement of the votes cast thereon, and upon

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES separate articles or propositions and a copy of

And whereas it was provided by said act that the Constitution thus formed' for the people of North Dakota should, by an ordniance of the Convention forming the same, be submitted to the people of North Dakota at an election to be held therein on the first Tuesday in October, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for ratification or rejection by the qualified voters of said proposed State, and that the returns of said And whereas it was provided by said act that election should be made to the Secretary of the delegates elected as therein provided, to a ConTerritory of Dakota, who, with the Governor stitutional convention in the Territory of Monand Chief Justice thereof, or any two of them, tana, should meet at the seat of government of should canvass the same; and if a majority of said Territory; and that, after they had met and the legal votes cast should be for the Constitu-organized, they should declare on behalf of the