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Show M THE PROCLAMATION H "By Hid 1'resldont of tlio United H Stales of America: ,V proclamation: H Whereas tlio Confess of tlio Unllcil H States passtd nil net which was np H proud on tho sixteenth day of Jujy, MW olglitcrn hundred nnd ninety-four, jy.n- H titled, "Au net to unable tthc peopl,vof H Utnh to form n Constitution riiHl.s'tnte 1 government, mid to bo admitted Into MKW tlio Union on nn equal footing witlrthp H original states," which nut provldetLfor H the olecllon of delegates to tlio Constli H tutlonul convention to jncet t thc-eent H of Kovorntncnt of the Territory of Utnh'. H on tho first Monday In March, fighfefh. MKW hundred .ind nlnety-flvc, for ttie. ynr- MKm pose of declaring the adoption oUtho m Constitution of the United Slates hy the MW pcoplo of the proposed Stato, nnd fpilin- MKm in; a Conatllution and Slnte govcrn- H went for such stato t H "Whorens, delegates were accordingly mW elected, wlio met, organized nnd'do- MKw clarcd on bchnlf of the pcoplo cJtho B said proposed Stilo their adoption of. M tlio Constitution of tho United tilate", H nil as provided In said net: H "And, whereas, said convention si H organized did, by ordinanco Irrt-vocublo MKW without the consent of the United B States and tho peoplu of said States, ns M required by said act, provide Hint per- MKm feet tolcrnllon of religious sentiment H shall be secured jind tint no Inhabitant MKW of sld State shall aver be molested 'lit H person or property on itccount otj Ills H or her inodo'of religious wornlilnbbt H that polvgatnous or plural marriages are' MKW forever prohibited, and did also by tnld H ordinance make other various ftlpula- H tlons recited in section 3 of said net H "And, whuronx, tho said convention H thereupon funned a Constitution nuo H S:atn government lor the said proposed M State, whh-h Constitution, including M said ordinttiire, was duly submitted to H tho people thereof nt nn election Jl)ii M uu Tuesday next after tho first Jloiidiiy H of November, .eighteen hundred find H nlnctyilvc, as directed by eald net : H "And, whereas, return of said atqiv H Hon has been made nnd canvassed, mm m tho result thereof certified to me, to H - Rcther wlthn.conr.'pf paid.Conttltiitlon H " net, showing that a niHJority of the- H votes lawfully cftst nt such election wan H for tho ratfliS.'itfo'h'nnd adoption of eald H Constitution nnd ordinance. . H "Ami, whereas ihc Constitution and H govcriimeut of raid proposed State are H' republican in form, nnd tin) tnld Con- H otitutioii is not repugnant to tlio Con- H stltutlon of the United States nnd the H Declaration bf Independence, and nil H provisions f,aid act have been com- H piled with in tlu formation of tho said H Oonstltutlon nndgovcrnuicnt: H "Now, therefore, I, 0 rover Clevo- M land, President of the United States of H Ainirica, In wcorJancowith tho net of H Congress nforesnld, nnd by nuthority H thereof, nunounco tho result of sal( H election toliohs ro certified, nnd ( do H hcroby ilficlivru-nnd proclaim that the H terms and conditions prescribed by t lie H Congress of the United States to entitle H the Stntc of Utah to admission, into tint H Union liavo boon duly complied with, H jind that tho creation of eald State mid H lis admission Into tho Union anan H n-jual footlni; with the original States ! H now nccomplUhcd, H "In testimony whereof, I hnvo hereto H -tot my hand nnd caused tho sea of th4 M United States to be ntllxed. M "Done nt the City of Washington, this H fuurtli duy nf January, in tlio year of H our I)rd ono tlioutand eight hundred H wed ninety-six, nnd of tlmvlndpend- H ence of tlio United fc'tntcn ofvAmerica H-w one ljuudrod and twentieth', r,. H "OROVUH Cl.liVKI.AKD. H "iy the I'reldeitt., . H "UlCIIAIll) Ol.NKY, (Sinl.) Secretary of State." |