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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: 1889-09-20 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 5951: 1889-09-20 00:00:00

The committee further considered the article on Executive Department. The articles on Militia; Railroads and Telegraph Lines; and the Judicial Department were also taken up.

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Report of the Committee of the Whole: 1889-09-20, Morning

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Cheyenne, Sept. 20, 1889.

Mr. President:

Your committee of the whole to whom was referred the general file beg leave to report with the following recommendations:

That substitute for Files No. 51 and 56 be amended in Sec. 3 by inserting in line 3 after the word “office” the words “or his absence from the state.”

Amend Sec. 13 in the fifth line by striking out the words “fifteen hundred” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “two thousand."

That the amendment submitting a new section, No. 16, be referred to Committee No. 4.

That Sec. 11 be amended by adding the following:

‘‘The legislature may provide for such other state officers as may be deemed necessary.”

And that substitute for Files No. 51 and 56 thus amended be adopted.

That substitutes for Files No. 9 and 36 be amended as follows:

Strike out all of Sec. 2 after the words “United States” in the sixth line. Substitute the following for Sec. 4: “No military organization under the laws of the state shall carry any banner or flag representing any sect or society or the flag of any nationality but that of the United States.

Amend Sec. 5 by inserting in first line after the word “chief”’ the words “of the military forces, of the state.”

And that substitute for Files No.9 and 36 thus amended be printed.

H. E. TESCHEMACHER, Chairman.

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