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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
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  3. Committee:Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1889-09-12 00:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889

The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.

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Session 5737: 1889-09-12 00:00:00

The committee considered the article on Irrigation and Water Rights as well as substitutions for the article on County Organization.

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Report of the Committee of the Whole: 1889-09-12

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Cheyenne, Sept. 12, 1889.

Mr. President:

Your committee of the whole having had under consideration the general file, beg leave to report with the following recommendations:

That File No. 57 be amended as follows:

Amend Sec. 1 by striking out the words “not heretofore appropriated” in the second line of said section, and by inserting in the third line between the words “to” and “appropriation” the words “prior or future.”

That amendment offered by Mr. Fox be referred to the committee on irrigation.

That File No. 57 as amended be re-referred to Committee No. 8.

That substitutes for Files 19 and 22 submitted by Committee No. 12, be amended in Sec. 2 by striking out the words “an equal or greater” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “at least three millions of dollars of assessable.”

And your committee not having finished the consideration of said file reports progress and asks leave to sit again.

G. C. SMITH, Chairman.

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