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M1TH iuss, HOUSE OF REPRESENTA1I VES. REPORT
1st ssio. No. 1025.
ADMISSION OF DAKOTA, MONTANA WASH IYGTON, AND
NEW MEXICO INTO THE UNION.
MARCH lB, 18S.-Committedto 1e Committee of the Whole House on the state of the
Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. SPRINGliR from the Committee on the Territories, submitted the
following
REPORT
[To accompany bill H. R. 8466.]
The Committee on the Territories, to whom were referred the follow-
ing bills:
H. R. 1276, to enable the people of Dakota to form a constitution and State
government, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with
th6 original States;
H. R. 1955, to provide for the formation and admission into the Union of the
State of Montana;
H. R. 4430, to provide for the formation and admission into the Union of the
State of Washington, and for other purposes;
H. R. 4431, to provide for the formation and admission into the Union of the
States of Washington, Dakota, Montana, and New Mexico, and for other
purposes;
having had the same under consideration, have instructed me to report
the accompanying* bill as a substitute for all of said bills and recom-
mend that said bills be laid upon the table and that the substitute there-
for be passed. The substitute is entitled as follows: A bill to enable
the people of Dakota., Montana, Washington, and New Mexico to form
constitutions and State governments and to be admitted into the Union
on an equal footing with the original States.
This bill provides enabling acts for the people of the Territdries named,
by the terms of which constitutional conventions will be held in the
several Territories, and the constitutions framed submitted to the peo-
ple for their ratification or rejection. All persons who have resided
within the limits of the proposed States for sixty days, and are other-
wise qualified by the laws of the Territories to vote for the representa-
tives to the legislative assembles thereof, are authorized to vote for
delegates to form the conventions.
The governor, United States marshal, and United States attorney for
each Territory are authorized to make the apportionments for the dis-
tricts in which the delegates should be elected; and the governors are
authorized to order elections in etch of said Territories on the Tuesday
after the first Monday in August, 1888. The number of delegates in
each Territory is to be seventy-five, except in the Territory of Dakota,
in which the number of delegates is to be one hundred and fifty.
The constitutional conventions will assemble at the capitals of said
Territories in September next, and when assembled they shall adopt](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.statecon/admtwanm0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)