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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The Convention read and approved the Journal of the preceding day. The reports of standing committees along with a communication from L. K. Church were then read. The Report of the Committee on Judiciary was heard, debated and made a special order for the next day.
Huron, Dakota, July 22, 1889.
At a mass meeting of the citizens of Huron, Beadle County, on Monday evening, July 22nd, 1889, it was unanimously ordered that the Secretary of the mass meeting be requested to ask the Constitutional Convention, now in session at Sioux Falls, to adopt the Australian system of voting on the first day of October next, as expressed in the attached bill.
Signed: L. K. CHURCH
Chairman.