Following the rejected 'Sioux Falls' Convention of 1885, the South Dakota Convention met and began the drafting process in July of 1889. They used the articles of the Sioux Falls Convention as starting propositions to begin the amendment process. The South Dakota Constitution was ratified in October 1889.
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TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
We, the undersigned, the duly appointed Executive and Administrative Committee of this Convention, do hereby respectfully report that we have carefully examined Article IV of the Constitution of the proposed state of South Dakota, approved by the voters thereof, May 14th, 1889, and find that no change is necessary or proper in said Article IV, in order to comply with the provision of the Enabling Act, passed by the Congress of the United States.
C. R. Wescott,
R. C. Anderson,
J. Downing,
W. G. Dickenson,
W. H. Murphy.
Sioux Falls, July 1889.