The Dakotas Joint Committee for the Division of Property began on July 16, 1889 and dissolved on July 31, 1889. It allowed for delegates from both the North and South Conventions to meet in Bismarck and negotiate the splitting of the Territory of Dakota.
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Resolved, That it is the judgment of this Joint Commission that in execution of the duty imposed upon this Commission by Act of Congress under which this Commission was created, that this Commission should provide for copies of such public records as will in the judgment of this Commission be required and necessary for the proposed States of North Dakota and South Dakota to inaugurate and continue such States respectively, in their several departments; that an agreement be made by this Commission as to disposition of both original and copies.