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ber, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for ratification or rejection by the qualified voters of said proposed State; and that the returns of said election should be made to the secretary of said Territory, who, with the governor and chief-justice thereof, or any two of them, should canvass the same; and if a majority of the legal votes cast should be for the constitution, the governor should certify the result to the President of the United States, together with a statement of the votes cast thereon, and upon separate articles or propositions and a copy of said constitution, articles, propositions and ordi

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And whereas it has been certified to me by the governor of said Territory that within the time prescribed by said act of Congress a constitution for the proposed State of Washington has been adopted and that the same has been ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of said proposed State in accordance with the conditions prescribed in said act;

And whereas it is also certified to me by the said governor that at the same time the body of said constitution was submitted to a vote of the people two separate articles entitled "Woman Suffrage" and "Prohibition" were likewise submitted, which said separate articles did not receive a majority of the votes cast thereon or upon the constitution and were rejected; also that at the same election the question of the location of a permanent seat of Government was so submitted and that no place received a majority of all the votes cast upon said questions;

And whereas a duly authenticated copy of said constitution and articles, as required by said act, has been received by me:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact that the conditions imposed by Congress on the State of Washington to entitle

that State to admission to the Union have been ratified and accepted and that the admission of the said State into the Union is now complete.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this eleventh (11th) day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eightynine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fourteenth.

[SEAL.]

By the President:

BENJ. HARRISON.

JAMES G. BLAINE,

Secretary of State.

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ELECTORAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT FROM MARCH 4, 1789, TO MARCH 4, 1885.

ELECTION FOR THE FIRST TERM, 1789-1793.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, President; JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President.

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ELECTION FOR THE SECOND TERM, 1793-1797.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, President; JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President.

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ELECTION FOR THE THIRD TERM, 1797-1801.

JOHN ADAMS, President; THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vice-President.

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