Section Attestations
The Oklahoma Constitution ends with the officers and delegates to the Constitutional Convention signing the documents. It reads:
- Done in open Convention at the City of Guthrie, in the Territory of Oklahoma, on this, the sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and the Independence of the United States of America one hundred and thirty-first.
- John McLain Young, Secretary.
- William H. Murray, President of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma and Delegate from District No. 104.
- Pete Hanraty, Vice President
- Chas. H. Filson, Secretary of Oklahoma.
- Albert H. Ellis, Second Vice President and Delegate 14" District.
Territory of Oklahoma, Logan County:
- I, Wm. H. Murray, President of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is the original parchment enrollment of the Constitution and the several articles thereof adopted by the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma, to be submitted to the people of the proposed State of Oklahoma for ratification, and that all the interlineations therein contained and all the erasures and words stricken out, were made and done before the same was signed by the President, the Vice-Presidents, and the members of said Convention.
- Witness my hand this the sixteenth day of July, A. D., Nineteen Hundred and Seven.
- William H. Murry, President of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma
- John McLain Young, Secretary
- Witness my hand this the sixteenth day of July, A. D., Nineteen Hundred and Seven.
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