Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-07-13
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
NEW MEXICO.

framed by the CONVENTION Of the People of New
MEXICO for the government of the State of New
Mexico has been received in this city but, as i
requires the formal assent and concurrence of TIT
People of the proposed State, it is to be considered
as yet in an inchoate condition II was referred tt
the Popular Suffrage to determine, by genera
vote for or against ii, on the 20th of June 1T
acceptance or rejection After the sense of thu
People has thus been taken, the Members of both
branches of the Legislature and the Governor Of the
State being together assembled, the votes upon the
Constitution are 10 be counted, &c.-as will more
particularly appear by the following provisions Of
! the Constitution
The first session the Legislature of the State Of New
Mexico shall be held the city Of Santa Fe, and shall
mence on the frs day of July. 1850.
"The Military and Civil Governor OF the Territory shall
be requested Immediately after the adjournment of this Con-
venion ws Of election the Projects of the
raj counties, requiring them election he held
the goth day Of June 1850 the electors for against
this Constitution, for Governor and Lieutenant Governor
Representative in the Congress Of the United States Sena
and Representatives the Legislature and the returns
of such election shall be made the Pefecs who ogehe
with the Projects clerk shall the gven and Ger
shall have received the highest number for members
of the Legislature The Projects of the counties shall
make returns under their hands, of all the votes gver
their respective counties for Governor Lieutenant Gov
eno and Representative Congress- and the return
for against this Constitution to the present Secretary
othe Territory at Santa Fe, who, when the Legislature shall
convene shall lay such before them ON the first day OF
session, both Houses shall organized and
Speaker Of the House of Representatives and the Presi
dent tepoe of the Senate SHALL in the presence of both
Houses examine the returns and declare who elected
fill those Offices the number of votes for and against this
Constitution, &C.
The Of the electors Tor against this constitution
shall be certified by the Governor elect the Lieutenant
Governor acting SUCH who shall dispatch the the
Secretary Of State Of the United States within thirty days
the day Of election &C.
shall be and hereby made the duty of the Governor
Lieutenant Governor acting such, if appears from the
returns of votes for and against this Constitution that it has
been adopted by the people, be shall Immediately cause fair
copy of the same together with fair digest the votes given
for and against the Constitution be forwarded to the Pre-
dent Of the United States be laid before the Congress Of
the United States" ~.
To satisfy very natural curiosity on the part of
the public to know what are the provisions of the
Constitution in relation 10 the questions of Slavery
and OF Boundary, we are glad 10 be able also to
place exact copies of those provisions before our
readers
Al men being born equally free and Independent, and
having certain natural inherent and inalienabe rights
amongst which the enjoying and defending life and ber
y, the requirement, possession and protection of propery
and the pursuit and attainment, of happiness therefore no
male person shall be held by law any person IS
servant slave apprentice, after he arrives at the age
,wenyone years, female, like manner after she ar
at the age OF eighteen years. unless they be bound nv
their own consent after they arrive such age bound
| by law for punishment Of crime"
The limits and boundaries of the State are de.
fined as follows:
beginning at the dam in the Rio del Nore which SUP.
plies with water the asegus rrgaDg the town
OF FL Paso del Norte, ard running thence due the
hundredh parallel Of longitude, west from Greenwich thence
due north on said parallel point where the
the river Arkansas thence up the middle Of the channel Of
said river to its sources thence in direct line point on
the Rio Colorado of California where the is niers cted
by the one hundred and tenth parallel of longitude west from
Greenwich thence due south said parallel of longitude
point the Rio Ga nerseced by the thence up
the middle Of the main channel Of said to the point
which may be designated by the Commissioners appointed to
establish the line between the United States and the Republic
of Mexico the point where said river its branches
shall he ntersec'ed by the western line Of New Mexico
thence southery said line, the shall be established
by the Commissioners to the angle formed by the
chihuahua, Sonors, and New Mexico; thence easlery
the line between the United States and the Republic of Mex
co.. it shall be laid down by said Commissioner point
where the may inerse the Rio del Nore thence down
said river to the place of beginning"
Gen. TAYLOR has done nothing since he went in