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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. Committee:The Convention
  4. Session: 1889-09-16 10:30:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

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 5751: 1889-09-16 10:30:00

The reports of the standing committees were presented. The Convention then resolved into the Committee of the Whole. The committee reported their progress on the article on Judicial Department. A proposition concerning salaries was presented.

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Federal Relations [File No. 60, Convention]

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Federal Relations.

Section 1. The state of Wyoming is an inseparable part of the American Union and the Constitution of the United States is the Supreme law of the land. The following article shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this state:

Section 2. Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and no inhabitant of this state shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship.

Section 3. The people inhabiting this state do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes, and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States, and that 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 this 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 this state on lands or property therein, belonging to, or which may hereafter be purchased by the United States, or reserved for its use. But nothing in this article shall preclude this state from taxing as other lands are taxed, any lands owned or held by any Indian who has severed his tribal relations, 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 acts of Congress containing a provision exempting the lands thus granted from taxation, which last mentioned lands shall be exempt from taxation so long, and to such an extent, as is, or may be provided in the act of Congress granting the same.

Section 4. The State of Wyoming Shall assume and pay all warrants Bonds debts, and liabilities of every nature that have been contracted by the Territory of Wyoming and remaining unpaid at the time of her admittance into the union.

Section 5. The legislature Shall make laws for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools which shall be open to all children of the state and free from sectarian control.

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