Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-02
Ten Million Dollars Ii Cash For Support OF
Schools and Other Purposes
IMMENSE AMOUNT OF INSTITUTIONAL, 9 LAND
Liberal and Sensible Bill, Which viii Prsbabl Be Reconnesd
Cd By Statehood Committee Of the House

Sec THAT the delegates to the CON
vention thus elected shall meet In the
hall OF the house Of representatives. of
the territory Of New Mexico, in the
city Of Santa Fe therein, on the third
Monday after their election. and after
Organization shall declare on behalf of
the people Of said proposed state that
they adopt the constitution q the
United States, whereupon the said
convention shall be, and Is hereby, au-
thorized to form constitution and
state government for said proposed
state. The constitution shall be repub-
lic8n in form, and make no distinction
in civil political rights on account Of
race or color, except as to Indians not
taxed, and not be repugnant to the
|constitution of the United States and
the principles Of the Declaration of In.
dependence. And said convention shall
provide by ordinance irreyocable with
out the consent of the United States
and the people Of said state,
First-That perfect toleration Of re,
ligious sentiment shall be secured, and
that no inhabitant Of said state shall
evel be molested in person or prop
erty on account of his or her mode Of
religious worship, and that polyga.
nous or plural marriages are forever
prohibited.
Second-That the people inhabiting
said proposed state do agree and de-
clare that they forever disclaim all
right and title to the unappropriated
and ungranted public lands lying with
in the boundaries aereof and to all
lands lying within said lirnits owned
or held by any Indian or Indian tribes
except as hereinafter provided. and
that until the title thereto shall have
been extinguished by the United
States the same shall be and remain
subject 70 the disposition OF the Unit
ed States. and such Indian lands shall
remain under the absolute jurisdiction
and control Of the congress OF the
United States; that the lands and 9th,
er property belonging to citizens Of
| the United States residing without
the said state shall never be taxed
at a higher rate than the lands and
other property belonging TO residents
thereof; that no taAes shall be Inn
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 It's use;
but nothing herein. or IN the ordi
nance herein provided for, shall pro
cIude the said state from taxing, al
other lands and other property are
taxed, any lands and other property
I owned or held by any Indian who
has severed his tribal relations ant
has obtained from the United States
or from any person a title thereto by
patent or other grant, sase AMI ex
cept sueA lands as have been or may
be granted 70 any lndian or indians
under an ACT of congress cotaining .
provision eSemEting the LANDS thus
granted from taxation. but said ordi
nance shall provide that all suci
lands shall be exempt from tix;itioI
by said state 50 long and TO such ex
tent as such act Of congress may pre-
scribe
Third-That the debts and liabili
ties OF said territory Of Arizona and Q
said territory Of New Mexico shall b
assumed and paid by said state.
Fourth-That provision shall b
made for the establishment and main
tenance Of sysetm of public schools
which shall be open to all the chll
dren for said state and free from sec
tartan control; and that said school
shall always be conducted in English
Provided, That nothing In this ac
shall preclude the teaching Of othe
languages in said public schools.
Fifth---That the capital Of said stat
shall temporarily be at the City Q
Santa Fe In tho present territory 9
New Mexico. and shall not be chanf
cd therefrom previous 20 Ammo Domin
nineteen hundred and ten.