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 report of the Committee on Education and School Lands was taken up and adopted. The Convention then proceeded to continue the reading of the Articles of the 1885 Constitutional Convention and referred them to their respective committees. Resolutions were then submitted before adjournment.
Moved that the several committees provided for by the Rules of this Convention be directed to proceed to the discharge of their several duties, and report to this Convention only such changes and amendments to the Constitution as in their judgment are directed by, or are necessary in order to comply with the provisions of the Enabling Act, known as the Omnibus Bill, under the authority of which we are here convened, and by the provisions of which we must be guided and controlled.