- 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.
Committee on Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Rights
Also referred to as Committee No. 8
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Session 6371: 1889-09-23 00:00:00
The committee was referred a resolution on Deep Water Harbors. The committee drafted a report and a resolution on the same and referred them to the Convention for consideration.
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Resolution Relative to Deep Water Harbors on the Texas Coast of the Gulf of Mexico
Whereas, the Territory of Wyoming has great agricultural, mineral and industrial interests that require for their development, trunk lines of railroads, running north and south, and extending from the British Columbian provinces to the Gulf of Mexico, thereby opening up to its farmers, miners, and artisans, additional markets, and to enable them to compete with the states nearer the seaboard, and enabling them to exchange the products of its country for the products of the south.
Whereas, these results must and will be materially advanced by the establishment and maintenance of a deep water harbor or harbors on the Gulf of Mexico.
Now, therefore. Be it Resolved by the delegates of the constitutional convention of the Territory of Wyoming, that the establishment of a deep water harbor or harbors on the Texas- coast of the Gulf of Mexico, meets with the approbation of this convention; that our president and secretary are hereby instructed to forward to the Deep Water Harbor Convention, about to convene in the city of Topeka, Kansas, a copy of these resolutions, and that they also furnish a. copy to our delegate in congress, the Hon. Joseph M. Carey, accompanying the same with the request that our delegate use his best endeavors to secure the establishment of such harbor or harbors.
Decisions yet to be taken
Document Timeline
- Resolution Relative to Deep Water Harbors on the Texas Coast of the Gulf of Mexico (introduced on 1889-09-23 00:00:00 - CREATE - e679371) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1889-09-23 00:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e679372) [view current proposal at this moment]