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A true treasure, being the only admission order for statehood we have ever seenhttps://vimeo.com/916158914?share=copy?Washington became the 42nd state of the United States on November 11, 1889, when President Benjamin Harrison issued a proclamation admitting it to the Union. After a hiatus of thirteen years when no new states were admitted to the Union, the United States Congress passed an act in February 1889 enabling the territories of Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana to seek statehood. President Cleveland signed the act. Before statehood could be conferred, a state constitution had to be written and passed by the Territories.Washington?s constitutional convention was duly convened in Olympia, the territorial capital, on July 4, 1889, in crowded and swelteringly hot conditions. The delegates were chosen by a formula devised by Congress which required the governor and chief justice of the Supreme Court to divide the territory into twenty-five voting districts of approximately equal populations. Election was apportioned by the party affiliation: of the three delegates representing each district, two were of the majority party and one of a minority party.Some of the most contentious issues under discussion involved the disposition of school and state lands and the regulation or sale of tide lands. The regulation of railroads was also a much-debated topic. In the end the Constitution reflected the issues and concerns of its day: the restrictions placed on the Legislature, the many statewide elected officials that split the responsibilities of governance, and the amending formula. Washington citizens approved the State Constitution by a vote of 40,152 to 11,879 in the election called by Territorial Governor Miles C. Moore on October 1, 1889.On October 23, Moore wrote President Harrison stating that as Governor of the Territory of Washington, he certified that Washington had voted for statehood, and requesting ?to be admitted to the Union on an Equal Footing with the Original States?? Harrison responded with the procedure to be followed to effect the admission, saying ?Section Eight of the Enabling Act requires that the Governor shall certify ?a copy of said Constitution? etc. The copy sent is duly certified by the Secretary. Send another certified by you, and attested by the Secretary with the seal attached.? On November 4, in response to the President?s instructions, Moore sent Harrison ?a copy of the Constitution of the State of Washington, certified in the manner prescribed in your telegram of this date, attested by the Secretary, with the seal of the Territory attached.? A week later, on November 11, 1889, the formalities perfected, Harrison proclaimed Washington a state.Harrison?s proclamation stated in part: ?Whereas the Congress of the United States did by an act approved on the 22d day of February, 1889, provide that the inhabitants of the Territory of Washington might upon the conditions prescribed in said act become the State of Washington; and Whereas it was provided by said act that delegates elected as therein provided to a constitutional convention in the Territory of Washington should meet at the seat of government of said Territory, and that after they had met and organized they should declare on behalf of the people of Washington that they adopt the Constitution of the United States, whereupon the said convention should be authorized to form a State government for the proposed State of Washington; and?Whereas it has been certified to me by the governor of said Territory that within the time prescribed by said act of Congress a constitution for the proposed State of Washington has been adopted, and that the same has been ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of said proposed State in accordance with the conditions prescribed in said act; and?"Whereas a duly authenticated copy of said constitution and articles, as required by said act, has been received by me: Now, therefore, I, Benjamin. N° de ref. del artículo 29792
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