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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: 1889-09-18 10:00:00
  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 5935: 1889-09-18 10:00:00

The committee further considered the article on Suffrage. The articles on Livestock, Contracts of Employees, Chinese Labor, and Legislative Department were then taken up.

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Chinese Labor [File No. 66, Committee of the Whole]

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Chinese Labor.

Sec. 1. No person not a citizen of the United States or who has not declared his intention to become such, shall be employed upon, or in connection with, any state, county or municipal works or employment, except as a punishment for crime after conviction according to law.

Sec 2. The legislature shall, by appropriate legislation see that the provisions of the foregoing section are enforced.

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