United States the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States, and said Indian lands shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the congress of the United States; that the lands belonging to citizens of the United States residing without the said state shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the lands belonging to residents of this state. That no taxes shall be imposed by the State of South Dakota on lands or property therein belonging to or which may hereafter be purchased by the United States, or reserved for its use. But nothing herein shall preclude the State of South Dakota from taxing as other lands are taxed, any lands owned or held by any Indian who has severed his tribal relation and has obtained from the United States or from any person a title thereto by patent or other grant, save and except such lands as have been or may be granted to any Indian or Indians under any act of congress containing a provision exempting the lands thus granted from taxation, all such lands which may have been exempted by any grant or law of the United States shall remain exempt to the extent and as prescribed by such act of congress. Third-That the State of South Dakota shall assume and pay that portion of the debts and liabilities of the Territory of Dakota as provided in this constitution. Fourth-That provision shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools which shall be opened to all the children of this state and free from sectarian control. Fifth-That jurisdiction is ceded to the United States over the military reservations of Fort Meade, Fort Randall and Fort Sully, heretofore declared by the president of the United States; Provided, legal process, civil and criminal, of this state shall extend over such reservations in all cases of which exclusive jurisdiction is not vested in the United States, or of crimes not committed within the limits of such reservations. These ordinances shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States, and also the people of the said State of South Dakota expressed by their legislative assembly. § 19. The tenure of all officers, whose election is provided for in this schedule on the first day of October, A. D. 1889, shall be as follows: The governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, commissioner of school and public lands, judges of county courts, shall hold their respective offices until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, A. D. 1891, at twelve o'clock M., and until their successors are elected and qualified. The judges of the supreme court and circuit courts shall hold their offices until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, A. D. 1894, at twelve o'clock M., and until their successors are elected and qualified; subject to the provisions of Section 26 of Article V of the constitution. The terms of office of the members of the legislature elected at the first election held under the provisions of this constitution shall expire on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1891.) § 20. That the first general election under the provisions of this constitution shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1890, and every two years thereafter. § 21. The following form of ballot is adopted: CONSTITUTIONAL TICKET. INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS. All persons desiring to vote for the constitution, or for any of the articles submitted to a separate vote, may erase the word "No." All persons who desire to vote against the constitution, or any articles separately submitted may erase the word "Yes." For the Constitution: Yes. No. For Prohibition: Yes. No. For Minority Representation: Yes. No. . as the temporary seat of government. For Lieutenant Governor. For Secretary of State. For Auditor. For Treasurer. For Attorney General. For Superintendent of Public Instruction. For Commissioner of School and Public Lands. § 22. This constitution shall be enrolled and after adoption and signing by the convention shall be delivered to Hon. A. J. Edgerton, the president of the constitutional convention, for safe keeping, and by him to be delivered to the secretary of state as soon as he assumes the duties of his office, and printed copies thereof shall be prefixed to the books containing the laws of the state, and all future editions thereof. The president of this convention shall also supervise the making of the copy that must be sent to the president of the United States; said copy is to be certified by the president and chief clerk of this convention. § 23. The agreement made by the joint commission of the constitutional conventions of North and South Dakota concerning the records, books and archives of the Territory of Dakota is hereby ratified and confirmed, which agreement is in the words following: That is to say: The following books, records and archives of the Territory of Dakota shall be the property of North Dakota, to-wit: All records, books and archives in the offices of the governor and secretary of the territory (except records of articles of incorporation of domestic corporations, returns of election of delegates to the constitutional convention of 1889, for South Dakota, returns of elections held under the so-called local option law in counties within the limits of South Dakota, bonds of notaries public appointed for counties within the limits of South Dakota, papers relating to the organization of counties situate within the limits of South Dakota, all of which records and archives are part of the records and archives of said secretary's office; excepting also census returns from counties situate within the limits of South Dakota and papers relating to requisitions issued upon the application of officers of counties situate within the limits of South Dakota, all of which are part of the records and archives of said governor's office.) And the following records, books and archives shall also be the property of the State of North Dakota, to-wit: Vouchers in the office or in the custody of the auditor of this territory relating to expenditures on account of public institutions, grounds or buildings situate within the limits of North Dakota; one warrant register in the office of the treasurer of this territory, being a record of warrants issued under and by virtue of chapter twenty-four of the laws enacted by the eighteenth legislative assembly of Dakota territory; all letters, receipts and vouchers in the same office now filed by counties and pertaining to counties within the limits of North Dakota; paid and canceled coupons in the same office representing interest on bonds which said State of North Dakota is to assume and pay; reports of gross earnings of the year 1888 in the same office, made by corporations operating lines of railroad situated wholly or mainly within the limits of North Dakota; records and papers of the office of the public examiner of the second district of the territory; records and papers of the office of the second district board of agriculture; records and papers in the office of the board of pharmacy of the district of North Dakota. All records, books and archives of the Territory of Dakota which it is not herein agreed shall be the property of North Dakota, shall be the property of South Dakota. The followed books shall be copied and the copies shall be the property of North Dakota, and the cost of such copies shall be borne equally by the said States of North Dakota and South Dakota. That is to say: Appropriation ledger for the years ending November, 1889 and 1890-one volume. The current warrant auditor's register-one volume. Treasurer's cash book "D.” Assessment ledger "B." Dakota Territory bond register-one volume. Treasurer's current ledger-one volume. The original of the foregoing volumes which are to be copied, shall at any time after such copying shall have been completed, be delivered on demand to the proper authorities of the State of South Dakota. All other records, books and archives which it is hereby agreed shall be the property of South Dakota shall remain at the capital of North Dakota until demanded by the legislature of the State of South Dakota, and until the State of North Dakota shall have had a reasonable time after such demand is made to provide copies or abstracts or such portions thereof as the said State of North Dakota may desire to have copies or abstracts of. The State of South Dakota may also provide copies or abstracts of such records, books and archives which is agreed shall be the property of North Dakota as said State of South Dakota shall desire to have copies or abstracts of. The expense of all copies or abstracts of records, books and archives which it is herein agreed may be made, shall be borne equally by said two states. ALONZO J. EDGERTON, President of the Constitutional Convention. R. C. Anderson, J. G. Davies, T. F. Diefendorf, Edward G. Edgerton, H. F. Fellows, J. A. Fowles, C. S. Gifford, W. H. Goddard, A. G. Kellam, Jonathan Kimball, R. F. Lyons, Wm. S. O'Brian, William Van Epps, Clarence H. VanTassel, Chester R. Wescott, S. A. Wheeler, J. F. Whitlock, J. V. Willis, W. T. Williams, |