fourteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

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 Montana might upon the conditions prescribed in said act
become the State of Montana; and

Whereas it was provided by said act that delegates elected as therein
provided to a constitutional convention in the Territory of Montana
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 Montana 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 Montana; and

Whereas it was provided by said act that the constitution so adopted
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