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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. Committee:Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1889-09-26 00:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889

The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.

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Session 6907: 1889-09-26 00:00:00

The committee considered the articles on Education; Public Lands and Donations; Coal Mines; Elections; Qualifications to Office; Schedule; and Boards of Arbitration.

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Schedule [File No. 89, Committee of the Whole]

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Section 1. That no inconvenience may arise from a change of the Territorial government to a permanent State government it is declared that all writs, actions, prosecutions, claims, liabilities and obligations against the Territory of Wyoming of whatsoever nature, and rights of individuals, and of bodies corporate, shall continue as if no change had taken place in this government, and all process which may, before the organization of the Judicial Department under this Constitution, be issued under the authority of the Territory of Wyoming, shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the State.

Sec. 2. That all property, real and personal, and all moneys, credits, claims, and choses in action, belonging to the territory at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall be vested in and become the property of the state of Wyoming.

Sec. 3. All laws now in force in the Territory of Wyoming which are not repugnant to this Constitution, shall remain in force until they expire by their own limitation or be altered or repealed by the Legislature.

Sec. 4. All fines, penalties, forfeitures and escheats accruing to the Territory of Wyoming shall accrue to the use of the State.

Sec. 5. All recognizances, bonds, obligations, or other undertakings heretofore taken, or which may be taken before the organization of the Judicial Department under this Constitution, shall remain, valid and shall pass over to and may be prosecuted in the name of the State; and all bonds, obligations or other undertakings executed to this Territory, or to any officer in his official capacity, shall pass over to the proper State authority, and to their successors in office for the uses therein respectively expressed, and may be sued for and recovered accordingly. All criminal prosecutions and penal actions which have arisen or which may arise before the organization of the Judicial Department under this Constitution, and which shall then be pending, may be prosecuted to judgment and execution in the name of the State.

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