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.
To see the full record of a committee, click on the corresponding committee on the map below.
The standing committees presented their reports which were discussed and either adopted or referred back to the committees with further instructions. It was moved each delegation would prepare a proposition on the remaining matters and submit them during the next session.
[Secretary’s office: Election returns, Constitutional Convention, 1889, and local option, 1887, applications and bonds, notarial commissions, enrolled bills of general and local application, applications for pardon, articles of domestic incorporation, papers relating to organization of counties.
Auditor’s office: Vouchers of local application, one bond register, county bonds, South Dakota.
Treasurer’s office: One warrant register, to go to North Dakota; letters to be divided by counties, and vouchers and receipts the same; bonds, coupons paid, railroad reports of gross earnings; cancelled bonds, South Dakota.
Public Examiner: Records, to go to sections where located.
Board of Agriculture: Records.
Dental Examiners: Records.
Board of Pharmacy: Records.
Governor’s office: Census returns, two volumes visitors’ registers, official correspondence, requisition papers.
Treasurer’s office: Three cash books, one journal, two ledgers, two old books—journal and cash book and ledger. One bond register.
Secretary’s office: Two volumes railroad deeds, mortgages and leases, twenty-seven volumes foreign and domestic in corporation records, one general executive record, one record of appointment, one record of elections.
Auditor’s office: Six volumes appropriation records (ledgers), one volume executive record, one volume insurance record, 1889, articles of incorporation, domestic and foreign insurance companies.
Governor’s office: One requisition record, one executive record.
Adjutant General’s office: Record books.
Supreme Court Records: Record books.]