TABLE OF STATES ADMITTED INTO THE UNION SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION, THEIR POPU- Formed from a portion of the territory of the State of New Formed from a portion of the territory of the State of Vir- Formed from territory ceded to the United States by 55,410 Formed from territory ceded to the United States by the Formed from territory ceded to the United States by the Texas... Dec. 29, 1845 250,000 818,579 1,591,749 274,356 This State was originally a part of the Republic of Mexico, but by a successful revolt, the people established for themselves an independent republican government, and were subsequently annexed to the United States. Seceded February 1, 1861. Readmitted to representation by the act of March 30, 1870. Formed from a portion of the Territory of Wisconsin, as the "Territory of Iowa," June 12, 1838. Formed from a portion of the territory of the State of 188,981 Formed from territory ceded to the United States by Mex- 81,318 Formed from territory ceded to the United States by 23,000 Formed from a portion of the territory ceded to the United Formed from a portion of the territory ceded to the United Estimated September 30, 1888. 55,045 53,924 + Estimated November 1, 1889. TABLE OF TERRITORIES, SHOWING DATE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT, THEIR POPULATION, AREA, AND FORMATION. ADMISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA, NOVEMBER 2, 1889. 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 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 the area comprising 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 provided 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 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; 397--22 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 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 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 resubmit 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 re-apportionment 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 Dakota should, by an ordinance of the convention forming the same, be submitted to the people of |