Whereas a duly authenticated copy of said constitution and articles, as required by said act, has been received by me:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact that the conditions imposed by Congress on the State of Washington to entitle that State to admission to the Union have been 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 caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 11th day of November, A.D. 1889, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fourteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.
EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 11, 1889.
Whereas civil-service rules for the railway mail service were approved January 4, 1889, to go into effect March 15, 1889; and