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  1. Overview: South Dakota State Constitutional Convention 1889
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  3. Committee:Committee on Seal
  4. Session: 1889-07-19 14:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

South Dakota State Constitutional Convention 1889

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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Session 15708: 1889-07-19 14:00:00

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Report of the Committee on Seal on Article XXI

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SIOUX FALLS, DAKOTA, July 19, 1889.

MR. PRESIDENT:

Your committee on Seal and Coat of Arms to whom was referred Section 1 of Article XXI of the Constitution, entitled “ Seal and Coat of Arms,” having had the same under careful consideration, beg leave to report the following changes necessary to comply with the provisions of the Omnibus Enabling Act, to-wit: To insert the word “South” before the word Dakota in the two instances where the words “State of Dakota” appear; and we herewith report Section 1, Article XXI, with the change aforesaid incorporated therein, viz:

SECTION I. SEAL AND COAT OF ARMS.—The design of the great seal of South Dakota shall be as follows: A circle within which shall appear in the left foreground a smelting furnace and other features of mining work. In the left background a range of hills. In the right foreground a farmer at his plow. In the right background a herd of cattle and a field of corn. Between the two parts thus described shall appear a river bearing a steamboat. Properly divided between the upper and lower edges of the circle shall appear the legend, “Under God the People Rule," which shall be the motto of the State of South Dakota. Exterior to this circle and within a circumscribed circle shall appear, in the upper part, the words “State of South Dakota.” In the lower part the words “Great Seal,” and the date in Arabic numerals of the year in which the State be admitted to the Union.

And respectfully recommend the adoption of the change and the submission of the Article as amended.

C. A. HOULTON.

H. A. HUMPHREY,

JOHN SCOLLARD,

J. F. WOOD.

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