Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-06-21

ligious sentiment shall be secured,
and that no inhabitant of said state
shall ever be molested in person or
property on account of his or her
mode of religious worship.
Second, that the people inhabiting
said proposed state do agree and de.
clare that they forever disclaim all
right and title to the unappropri-
ated public land lying within the
boundaries thereof, and to all lands
lying within said limits owned or
held by any Indian or Indian tribes;
and that until the title thereto shall
have been extinguished by the Unit
ed States the same shall be and re-
main subject to the disposition of the
United States, and said Indian lands
shall remain under the absolute juris-
diction and control of the congress
of the United States; that the lands
belonging to citizens of the United
States residing without the said state
shall never be taxed at higher rate
than the lands belonging to residents
thereof; that no taxes shall be i'm
posed by the state on lands or prop
erty therein belonging to or which
may hereafter be purchased by the
United States or reserved for its
use; but nothing herein, or in the
ordinance herein provided for,
shall preclude the said state
from taxing, as other lands
are taxed, any lands owned or held
by any Indian who has severed his
tribal relations and has obtained
from the United States or from any
person a title thereto by patent or
other grant, save and except such
lands az have been or may be granted
to any Indian or Indians under any
act of congress containing provi-
sion exempting the lands thus grant
ed from taxation; but said ordinance
shall provide that all such lands shall
be exempt from taxation by said
state so long and TO such an extent
as such act of congress may pre-
scribe:
Third, That the debts and liablli-
ties of said territory shall be assumed
and paid by the said states; and
~ Fourth, That provision shall be
made for the establishment and main
tenance of a system of public schools,
which shall be open to all the chill
dren of said state and free from sec
tartan control, and in all of which
schools the English language shall be
taught.
Sec. 4. That in case a constitution
and state government shall be formed
IN compliance with the provisions of
this act, the convention forming the
same shall provide by ordinance for
submitting said constitution to the
people of said state for their ratifica
ton or rejection, at an election to be
held in said territory on the Tuesday
after the first Monday of April, 1898,
at which election the qualified voters
of said proposed state shall vote di-
rectly for or against the proposed
constitution, and for or against any
provisions separately submitted.
The returns of said election shall be
made to the secretary of said terri
tory, who, with the governor and
chief justice thereof, or any two of
them, shall canvass the same; and if
majority of the legal votes cast on
that question shall be for the constl-
tuition, the governor shall certify the
result to the president of the United
States, together with a statement of
the votes cast thereon and upon sepa-
rate articles or propositions, and a
copy of said constitution, articles,prop-
ositions and ordinances. And if the
constitution and government of
said proposed state are Republic
can in form, and if all the provisions
of this act have been complied with
in the formation thereof, it shall be
the duty of the President of the
United States to issue his proclama-
ton announcing the result of said
election, and thereupon the proposed
State of New Mexico shall be deem
ed admitted by congress into the
union under and by virtue of this act
on an equal footing with the original
States from and after the date of
said proclamation.
Sec. 8. That until the general
census, or until otherwise provided
by law, said State shall be entitled
to one Representative in the House
of Representatives of the United
States, which Representative in the
ffty.third congress, together with
the governor and other officers pro-
vided for in said constitution, may
be elected on the same day of the
election for the adoption of the con.
stitntion: and until said State officers