as it was provided by said act that the constitution thus
formed for the people of North Dakota should, by an ordinance 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,
1889, for ratification or rejection by the qualified voters of said
proposed State, and that the returns of said election should be made to
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, and ordinances; and

Whereas it has been certified to me by the governor of the Territory
of Dakota that within the time prescribed by said act of Congress a
constitution for the proposed State of North Dakota has been adopted
and the same 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 a separate article, numbered 20 and entitled "Prohibition,"
was also submitted and 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

Whereas a duly authenticated copy of said constitution, article,
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 provisions of the act of Congress
aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact that the conditions imposed
by Congress on the State of North 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.

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