Whereas it has been certified to me by the acting governor of said Territory of Colorado that within the time prescribed by said act of Congress a constitution for said proposed State has been adopted and the same ratified by a majority of the legal voters of said proposed new State, in accordance with the conditions prescribed by said act of Congress; and
Whereas a duly authenticated copy of said constitution and of the declaration and ordinance required by said act has been 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 and proclaim the fact that the fundamental conditions imposed by Congress on the State of Colorado 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 have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 1st day of August, A.D. 1876, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and first.
U.S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.