Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-06-21
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
THE NEW MEXICO ADMISSION BILL.

The following is the bill as passed
by the House of Representatives
June 6, 1892.
BE IL Enacted, etc., That the in
habitants of all that part of the area
of the United States now consttu-
ting the Territory of New Mexico, az
at present described, may become the
State of New Mexico, as hereinafter
provided.
Section 2. That all persons who
shall have resided within the limits
of said proposed State for sixty days,
and are otherwise qualified by the
laws of said Territory to vote for re.
representatives. to the legislative as
sembly thereof, are hereby author
lied TO vote for and choose delegates
to form a convention i'll said Terri
tory; and the qualifications for dele
gates to such convention shall be such
as by the laws of said Territory, per
sons are required to possess to be ell
igible to the legislative assembly
thereof; and the aforesaid delegates
to form said convention shall be APP
pOrtloned among the several counties
within the limits of the pro-
posed State in proportion to
the population of each county,
by the census of 1890, ex-
elusive of all Indians, upon basis of
one delegate for each 1000 inhabit-
ants in each county, and one addi-
tional delegate for fraction of over
1000 inhabitants therein, the same
TO be apportioned as follows: Ber-
nallllo county, nine delegates; Cha
yes county, one delegate; Colfax
county, four delegates; Doha Ana
county, FIVE delegates; Eddy county,
one delegate; Grant county, five de-
legates; Lincoln county, two dele
gates; Mora county, five delegates;
Rio Arriba county, six delegates;San
Juan county, one delegate; San Mi.
guel county, twelve delegates; Santa
Fe county, seven delegates; Sierra
county, two delegates; Socorro
county, five delegates; Taos county,
five delegates, and Valencia county,
five delegates; seventy-five delegates
in all; and the governor of said Ter.
ritory shall, by proclamation, order
an election of the delegates aforesaid
in said Territory, to be held on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, 1892, which proclamation
shall be issued within thirty days
after the passage of this act; and
such election shall be conducted, the
returns made, the result ascertained,
and the certificates to persons elected
TO such convention issued in the
same manner as is prescribed by the
laws of said Territory regulating
elections therein for delegate TO con
gress. All persons resident in said
proposed State, who are qualified
voters of said Territory, as herein
provided, shall be entitled to vote
upon the election of delegates and
upon the ratification or rejection Of
the constitution, under such rules and
regulations as said convention may
prescribe, not in conflict with this
act.
Sec. 8. That the delegates to the con.
vention thus eletced shall meeta at the
seat of government of said territory
on the first Monday OF December,
1892, and after organization shall
declare, on behalf of the people of
said proposed state, that they adopt
the constitution of the United States,
whereupon the said convention shall
be and is hereby authorized TO form
a constitution and state government
for said proposed state. The consti.
tuition shall be republican in form
and make no distinction in civil or
political rights on account of race or
color, except as to Indians not taxed,
and not be repugnant to the cOnsti-
tuition of the United States and the
principles of the declaration of indie
pendence. And said convention
shall provide, by ordinance irrevoca-
BILE without the consent of the Unit
ed States and the people of said
state:
First, that perfect liberation of re-