Create a new input source with a system identifier. Applications may use setPublicId to include a public identifier as well, or setEncoding to specify the character encoding, if known. If the system identifier is a URL, it must be fully resolved (it may not be a relative URL).
The Minnesota territorial legislature voted to become a state and submitted their request to the US Congress, who accepted Minnesota as the 32nd state on May 11, 1858.
South Dakota was admitted as either the 39th or the 40th state on 2 November 1889. <br /><br /> President Harrison signed the law that made both North and South Dakota into states. Before he did so, he shuffled the papers on his desk. He covered up the names on the papers.