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Title 02: Agricultural Cooperative Associations - 1943

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Utah Code Annotated 1943-1995 
1943 
Admission of Utah as a State - 1943 
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ADMISSION OF UTAH AS A STATE 
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT 
OF THE UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA 
Whereas: The Congress of the United States passed an Act which 
was approved on the sixteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, entitled "An Act to enable the people of Utah to form a Consti-
tution and State Government and to be admitted into the Union on an 
equal footing with the original States," which Act provided for the 
election of delegates to a Constitutional Convention to meet, at the 
seat of government of the Territory of Utah, on the first Monday in 
March eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the purpose of declaring 
the adoption of the Constitution of the United States by the people 
of the proposed State and forming a Constitution and State Government 
for such State; 
And whereas, delegates were accordingly elected who met, organ-
ized and declared on behalf of the people of said proposed State their 
adoption of the Constitution of the United States, all as provided in 
said Act; 
And whereas, said Convention, so organized, did, by ordinance ir-
revocable without the consent of the United Stat.es and the people of 
said State, as required by said Act, provide that perfect toleration of 
religious sentiment shall be secured and that no inhabitant of said 
State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or 
her mode of religious worship, but that polygamous or plural marriages 
are forever prohibited; and did also by said ordinance make the other 
various stipulations recited in Section Three of said Act; 
And whereas, said Convention thereupon formed a Constitution and 
State government for said proposed State, which Constitution, includ-
ing said Ordinance, was duly submitted to the people thereof at an 
election held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, 
eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as directed by said Act; 
And whereas, the return of said election has been made and canvassed 
and the result thereof certified to me, together with a statement of the 
votes cast and a copy of said Constitution and Ordinance, all as provided 
in said Act, showing that a majority of the votes lawfully cast at such 
election was for the ratification and adoption of said Constitution and 
Ordinance; 
And whereas the Constitution and Government of said proposed State 
are republican in form, said Constitution is not repug:sant to the Con-
stitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence; and 
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all the provisions of said Act have been complied with in the formation 
of said Constitution and government; 
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States 
of America, in accordance with the Act of Congress aforesaid and by 
authority thereof, announce the result of said election to be as so cer-
tified and do hereby declare and proclaim that the terms and conditions 
prescribed by the Congress of the United States to entitle the State of 
Utah to admission into the Union have been duly complied with, and 
that the creation of said State and its admission into the Union on an 
equal footing with the original States is now accomplished. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the 
seal of the United States to be affixed. 
Done at the city of Washington this fourth day of January in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and 
[SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of America the one 
hundred and twentieth. 
GROVER CLEVELAND 
By the President: 
RICHARD OLNEY 
Secretary of State. 


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