President Grant's Proclamation Declaring Colorado's Admittance to the Union
8/1/1876
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August 1, 1876
By the President of the United
States of America.
A Proclamation.
Whereas the Congress of the United
States did, by an Act approved on the
third day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five authorize the
inhabitants of the Territory of Colorado to
form for themselves out of said Territory
a State Government with the name of
the State of Colorado, and for the [space filler]
admission of such State into the Union,
on equal footing with the original
States upon certain conditions in said
Act specified.
And whereas it was provided by
said Act of Congress that the Conven-
tion elected by the people of said [space filler]
Territory to frame a State Constitution
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received by me.
Now, Therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant,
President of the United States of America,
do, in accordance with the provisions of
the Act of Congress aforesaid, declare [space filler]
and proclaim the fact that the funda-
mental conditions imposed by Congress on
the State of Colorado to entitle that State
to admission to the Union have been [space filler]
ratified and accepted and that the
admission of the said State into the Union
is now complete.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
My hand and have caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
[Seal of the first day of August, in the year
United States of our Lord one thousand eight
affixed] hundred and seventy-six, and of
the Independence of the United
States of America the one hundred and first.
[signed] U.S. Grant
By the President
[signed] Hamilton Fish
Secretary of State. 230-2This primary source comes from the General Records of the United States Government.
National Archives Identifier:
299962Full Citation: Presidential Proclamation 230 of August 1, 1876 by President Ulysses S. Grant declaring the State of Colorado's admission to the Union; 8/1/1876; General Records of the United States Government, Record Group 11. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/president-grants-proclamation-declaring-colorados-admittance-to-the-union, April 26, 2024]