Emmons County-Buchanan, Emmonsburg, Gayton, Glencoe, Livona, Roop, Williamsport, Winchester, Winona, Omio, Armstrong, Exeter, Danbury, Westfield, Hampton, Hull.

Foster County-Barlow, Carrington, Larrabee, Melville, Glenfield.

Dickey County-Ellendale, Lorraine, Ludden, Merricourt, Wright, Yorktown, Monango, Oakes, Glover, Guelph, Hillsdale, Silverleaf, Clement, Westboro, Fullerton, Boynton.

Eddy County-New Rockford, Tiffany, Morris, Sheyenne.

Griggs County-Cooperstown, Gallatin, Jessie, Helena, Ottawa, Romness, Hannaford.

Garfield County-Fort Berthold.

Kidder County-Dawson, McGuire, Steele, Tappen, Langedahl.

Lamoure County-Dickey, Grand Rapids, La Moure, Russell, Litchville, Medbery, Griswold, Verona, Edgeley, Adrian, Newburg.

Logan County-Napoleon, Steidl, King.

McHenry County-Pendroy, Villard, Mouse River, Towner, Wines, Ely, Granville.

McIntosh County-Coldwater, Youngstown, Jewell, Ashley.

McLean County-Coal Harbor, Conkling, Ingersoll, Washburn, Weller, Falconer, Turtle Lake, Hancock.

Mercer County-Causey, Slaton, Stanton, Hazen, Deapolis, Krem.

Morton County-Fort Abraham Lincoln, Glen Ullin, Mandan, New Salem, Sims, Hebron, Sweet Briar, Kurtz, Cannon Ball.

Nelson County-Adler, Aneta, Baconville, Bue, Crosier, Harrisburgh, Lakota, Lee, Mapes, Michigan, Ottofy, Petersburg, McVille, Ruby, Sogn.

Olive County-Hensler, Sanger, Harmon, Klein.

Pembina County-Bathgate, Bay Center, Carlisle, Cavalier, Crystal, Drayton, Ernest, Gardar, Hallson, Hamilton, Hyde Park, Joliette, McConnell, Mountain, Neche, Pembina, Pittsburgh, Saint Thomas, Tyner, Walhalla, Nowesta, Stlkesville, Mugford, Welford, Glasston, Eyford, Prattford, Shepard, Thexton, Leroy, Backoo, Hensel, Bowesmont.

Ramsey County-Bartlett, Crary, De Groat, Devils Lake, Grand Harbor, Jerusalem, Locke, Jackson, Church, Kildahl, Starkweather, Churchs Ferry, Schapera, Rutten, Fox Lake, Penn.

Ransom County-Bonnersville, Buttzville, Elliott, Englevale, Fort Ransom, Lisbon, Owego, Plymouth, Scoville, Sheldon, Shenford.

Richland County-Barnes, Christine, Colfax, Dwight, Fairmount, Fort Abercrombie, Kougsberg, Mooreton, Wahpeton, Walcott, Wyndmere, Kloeppel, Power, Farmington, Hankinson, Lidgerwood, Seymour, Great Bend, De Villo.

Rolette County-Dunseith, Island Lake, Saint Johns, Laureat, Belcourt, Bollinger, Twala, Rolla.

Sargent County-Brampton, Forman, Hamlin, Milnor, Ransom, Sargent, Tewaukon, Verner, Nicholson, De Lamere, Rutland, Harlem, Havana, Straubville, Cayuga, Genesee, Mohler.

Stark County-Dickinson, Gladstone, Richardton, Taylor, Antelope, Belfield, South Heart.

Steele County-Bellevyria, Colgate, Hope, Pickert, Golden Lake, Sherbrooke, Mardell, Sharon.

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Stevens County-Fort Stevens.

Stutsman County-Atwill, Corinne, Eldridge, Esler, Gray, Jamestown, Pingree, Spiritwood, Windsor, Ypsilanti, Albion, Edmunds, Montpelier, Horn, Sharlow, Rio, Arrowwood, Medina, Karlopolis.

Towner County-Cando, Coolin, Snyder, Cecil, Sidney, Pieton, Gleason, Hanson, Perth.

Traill County-Bellmont, Blanchard, Buxton, Caledonia, Clifford, Cumings, Galesburg, Hague, Hatton, Hillsboro, Kelso, Mayville, Portland, Quincy, Weible. Ward County-Burlington, Saint Car!, Minot, Des Lacs, Logan, Lone Tree, Echo, McKinney.

Walsh County-Acton, Ardoch, Auburn, Conway, Edinburgh, Forest River, Galt, Grafton, Latona, Medford, Minto, Park River, Praha, Richmond, Saint Andrew, Silvista, Vesta, Walshville, Lambert, Kinloss, Tomey, Pisek, Cashel, Voss.

Wells County-Sykeston, Oshkosh.

Pierce County-Denney, Hurricane Lake.
Hettinger County-New England City.

Renville County-Joslyn, McKinney.

Dunn County-Oakdale.

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ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDENFOUNDATIONS

CHAPTER XXV

THE NORTH DAKOTA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION—

ENABLING ACT

The admission of a state to the Union has in some instances been decided by Congress upon political considerations. The right to admission when a territory has sufficient population and material resources to support a state government did not weigh with Congress as much as the political advantage to the party then in control of the National Government.

To illustrate: When Virginia passed an ordinance of secession, the people living in the mountains in the western portion repudiated secession and loyally adhered to the Union. Congress rewarded them by creating the State of West Virginia and admitted it to the sisterhood of states. The vote of an additional state was required to ratify the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery throughout the Union, and Congress carved out Nevada from California and admitted it as a state, and it cast the needed vote. The thirteenth amendment was ratified and slavery was forever abolished in the United States.

In recent years an enabling act has, however, been deemed an essential prerequisite to admission. It is the general rule, and Congress has jealously guarded it. It has held that no inherent right existed in the people of a territory to form a constitution and apply for admission to the Union without its consent, consequently it refused to recognize the constitution adopted by the people of South Dakota, prior to the enactment of the omnibus bill, approved February 22, 1889.

States can change their constitutions independently of Congress, but such constitution must conform to the requisite compact, and establish a government, republican in form and consistent with the national constitution.

The omnibus bill, which was the enabling act for the Dakotas, Montana and Washington, prescribed that the area in the Territory of Dakota should be "Divided on the line of the seventh standard parallel projected due west to the western boundary of said territory."

The area lying north of this line to the boundary of Manitoba, Canada, to constitute the State or Territory of North Dakota, as might be determined by the inhabitants of this area, who were qualified voters of the Territory of Dakota. It further prescribed that this area should be apportioned into twentyfive districts, three delegates to a constitutional convention to be elected from each district by the qualified voters of the district, but "no elector shall vote for more than two persons for delegates to such convention." The governor, chief justice and secretary of the territory were to designate the districts in proportion to the population, as near as practicable "from the best information obtainable."