Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-06
LOWER CALIFORNIA.
Full Text Of the Constitution Of the
New Government.
SEPARATE REPUBLIC PROPOSED.
Names and Duties of Those Who
Were to Compose the Council
of Administration.
ESPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE REooRD.uSIosJ

WASHINGTON, July 5th.-There has been
no further developments here relative to
the attempt to capture Lower California
from Mexico and form separate State or
Republic. Controversy over this vexed
question has been transferred from here to
the City of Mexico and London, where
representatives of Mexico and Great Britain
are understood to be engaged in efforts to
reach peaceful solution of the vexed
question. Until some settlement is
effected Attorney. General Miller declines
to make public the contents of the report
of Special Agent Foster, with the testimony
Colonel Fosterthis week received from a
friend in Lower California a copy of the
constitution which the conspirators in
tended TO adopt for their new State or Re-
public. At his request the Attorney
General kindly allowed a representative of
the California Associated Press to make a
copy of it. The constitution is as follows:
DRAFT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REpuB.
Lie OF LOWER CALIFORNIA.
Preamble The people of the Peninsula
of Lower California, without regard to race
or language, for the purpose of establishing
a separate nation and political government
free and independent OF the United States
OF Mexico, and with no intention or design
OF annexation, either near or ultimate, to
the United States of America, do hereby
assume their political freedom from sao
United States of Mexico.
Article l. The Republic of Lower Cali
fornia is hereby established this, the LIST
day of August, A. D. 1890, with its capital
at the city of Ensenada.
Article 2. The supreme authority of all
political power lies In the people, who, by
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hereby delegate for purposes of a war of
independence their authority as aforesaid,
| to Council of Administration.
Article 3. The authority of said Council
OF Administration shall be supreme until
peace shall be declared, when a constitu-
tonal convention of the people shall be
called.
Article 4. Said Council of Administra-
ton shall be composed of the following
persons: Governor General Walter Clifford
Smith, Commanding General Augustus
Merrill, Secretary General Bascom Asbury
Stephens, Treasury-General Ranford
Worthing, Acknowledgement Frederick
Hall, Postal General Leroy Wallen, In
dustrial-General E. B. Higgins, Warden
eral Edward Hill, Naval. General John F.
Thames, Surveyor-General G.. A. Haines,
Educational General, blank.
Article 5. All legislative, judicial and
executive functions shall be vested in said
Council of Administration. A quorum
shall consist of majority of the members
| and majority of the votes shall decide all
questions.
Article 6. Until declaration OF peace,
martial law shall prevail all over the pen
insula of Lower California, but the laws
of the Republic of Mexico and the King
dom of Spain, as laid down in the Mexican
law, shall remain in force, except wherein
they may conflict with this constitution
and such notifications as may be made
by said Council of administration. The writ
of habeas corpus is hereby expressly sus-
pended during the war of independence.
Article Z. The President shall preside
atlall meetings of said Council of Admins
tration, and shall have the casting vote in
case of tie; he shall have the power of
veto, which veto shall be rendered IN
effectual by a two-thirds vote of all the
members of the Council of Administration;
he shall fill by appointment all offices pro.
vided by the civil law; he shall issue and
revoke all commissions agreeable to the
the Council; he shall issue proclamations
he shall publish laws, or notifications or
| changes of the same; he shall have the
power OF pardon, and shall exercise
general supervision over all the
| hC
shall have full command of the army in
| the field, and shall be subject only to the
Council of Administration. The Secretary
General shall keep the records of the
Council of Administrations, and conduct
the correspondence and be Chief of the
Diplomatic Corps. The Treasurer General
shall provide such currency and bonds as
may be necessary, collect, keep and paw out
the public money under the direction of the
Council of Administration. The Attorney
General shall have control of the organiza-
ton and administration of the civil gov
eminent. The Postal General shall have
control OF the telegraph lines, stage lines
newspaper and post-offices. The Industrial
General shall have control of all public
lands and industries which may be nation
allied. The War General shall have con-
troll of all supplies for the :army. The
Naval-General shall have charge of such
vessels as may come under the control of
the Government. The Surveyor General
shall have charge of the construction of all
roads and Notifications The Educational
General shall have charge of the public
school system, including the military and
naval departments.
Article 8. No law or proclamation, ex-
cept military orders in the field, shall be
effective until published in the official
government paper. The Loa0er California
is hereby declared to be the official paper.
Article 8. The Republic of Lower Cali
lorna shall guarantee to every officer, civil
or military, and soldier or sailor 100 acres
OF irrigable land, providing the land be not
natlonaiized by The Constitutional Conven-
ton.
Article TO- The Council of Administra-
ton shall have power to carry on war, con-
clude peace, make treaties, regulate COM
merce, coin money, and do all things which
any sovereign power may of right perform.
hrncie IL. This Constitution may be
amended by two-thirds vote of the mem
bers OF the Council of Administration. after
one months notice has been given in
writing.
DUTY ON COAL.