should be republican in form and make no distinction in civil or
political rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians not
taxed, and not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States
and the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and that the
convention should, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of
the United States and the people of said States, make certain
provisions prescribed in said act; and

Whereas it was provided by said act that the constitutions of North
Dakota and South Dakota should, respectively, incorporate an agreement,
to be reached in accordance with the provisions of the act, for an
equitable division of all property belonging to the Territory of
Dakota, the disposition of all public records, and also for the
apportionment of the debts and liabilities of said Territory, and that
each of said States should obligate itself to pay its proportion of
such debts and liabilities the same as if they had been created by such
States respectively; and

Whereas it was provided by said act that at the election for delegates
to the constitutional convention in South Dakota, as therein provided,
each elector might have written or printed on his ballot the words
"For the Sioux Falls constitution" or the words "Against the Sioux
Falls constitution;" that the votes on this question should be returned
and canvassed in the same manner as the votes for the election of
delegates, and if a majority of all votes cast on this question should
be "For the Sioux Falls constitution" it should be the duty of the
convention which might assemble at Sioux Falls, as provided in the
act, to resubmit to the people of South Dakota, for ratification or
rejection, at an election provided for in said act, the constitution
framed at Sioux Falls and adopted November 3, 1885, and also the