§ 16.
Legislature and officers to exercise necessary and authorized powers only pending
admission of state into union.
Nothing in this Constitution or schedule contained shall be
construed to authorize the Legislature to exercise any powers except such as are necessary to its
first organization, and to elect United States senators, and to adjourn as above provided. Nor to
authorize any officer of the executive, administrative or judiciary departments to exercise any
duties of his office until the state of South Dakota shall have been regularly admitted into the
union, excepting such as may be authorized by the Congress of the United States.