Limit of cost increased.
to extend the limit of cost of the site and the building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, from seventy-five thousand dollars to the sum of
one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
- Approved, July 9, 1890.
July 10, 1890.
CHAP. 664.—An act to provide for the admission of the State of Wyoming into the Union, and for other purposes.
Preamble. Whereas, the people of the Territory of Wyoming did, on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, by a convention of delegates called and assembled for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution, which constitution was ratified and adopted by the people of said Territory at the election held therefor on the first Tuesday in November, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, which constitution is republican in form and is in conformity with the Constitution of the United States; and
Whereas, said convention and the people of the said Territory have asked the admission of said Territory into the Union of States on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever; Therefore,
Wyoming admitted as a new State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Wyoming is hereby declared to the a State of the United States of America, and is hereby declared admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever; and that Constitution ratified, etc. the constitution which the pone of Wyoming have formed for themselves be, and the same is hereby, accepted, ratified, and confirmed.
State boundaries.
Sec. 2. That the said State shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: Commencing at the
intersection of the twenty-seventh meridian of longitude west from
Washington with the forty-fifth degree of north latitude and running
thence west to the thirty-fourth meridian of west longitude; thence
south to the forty-first degree of north latitude; thence east to the
twenty-seventh meridian of west longitude, and thence north to the
Proviso,
Limitations as to Yellowstone National Park, etc.
place of beginning: Provided, That nothing in this act contained
shall repeal or affect any act of Congress relating to the Yellowstone
National Park, or the reservation of the park as now defined, or as
may be hereafter defined or extended, or the power of the United
States over it; and nothing contained in this act shall interfere with
Ownership, etc., reserved.
Legislation.
Jurisdiction.
the right and ownership of the United States in said park and reservation as it now is or may hereafter be defined or extended by law;
but exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, shall be exercised
by the United States, which shall have exclusive control and jurisdiction over the same; but nothing in this proviso contained shall
be construed to prevent the service within said park of civil and
criminal process lawfully issued by the authority of said State; and
Noindemnity school for those in park.
the said State shall not be entitled to select indemnity school lands
for the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections that may be in said park
reservation as the same is now defined or may be hereafter defined.
Congressional representation.
Election of Representative to Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses.
Sec. 3. That until the next general census, or until otherwise provided by law, said State shall be entitled to one Representative in
the House of Representatives of the United States, and the election
of the Representative to the Fifty-first Congress and the Representative to the Fifty-second Congress shall take place at the time and
be conducted and certified in the same manner as is provided in the
constitution of the State for the election of State, district, and other
officers.
School lands granted. Sec. 4. That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of said proposed State, and where such sections, or any
