Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-04-07
For New Mexico and Arizona..-
Constitutional Convention to
Consist of ITO Delegates.
10 FROM NEW MEXICO,
40 FROM ARIZONA
TO BE HELD AT SANTAFE
First Election to Come Off on Tenth
tuesday After Approval Of Bill
Constitution and State Officers
to Be Voted for at Sametime.

In the house of representatives. on
April |, 1904, Mr.. Hamilton introduced
the following bill, which was referred
to the committee on the territories
and ordered to be printed
bill to enable the people of Okla
homa and of the Indian Territory to
form constitution and state govern
ment and be admitted into the Union
on an equal footing with the original
states; and to enable the people of
New Mexico and Arizona to form
constitution and state government
and be admitted into theUnion on an
equal footing with the original states.
The first eighteen sections of the
bill relate to the formation of the new
State OF Oklahoma, Section 10 being
the first section applicable to the new
State of Arizona.
Be it enacted by the senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in congress as
sembled:
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| Sec. 19. That the inhabitants Of all
that part of the area of the United
States now constituting the TerritOr-
les of Arizona and New Mexico. as at
present described, may become the
State of Arizona, as hereinafter pro-
vided
Sec. 20. That all qualified electors
of said territories, respectively, as de-
scribed in this act are hereby author
lied to vote for and choose delegates
to form convention for said terri
tories; such delegates shall possess
the qualifications of such electors.
The aforesaid convention shall consist
of one hunderd and ten delegates sew
enty of which delegates shall be elect
ed to said convention by the people of
the Territory of New Mexico and forty
by the people of the Territory of Ari-
zona; and the governors, chief justices
and secretaries of each of said Terri
tories, respectively, shall apportion
the delegates to be thus elected from
their respective Territories as nearly
as may be equitably among the several
counties thereof in accordance with the
population as shown in the United
States census of ammo Domini nine
teen hundred; and such governors, re-
spectively, shall, within thirty days af-
ter the approval of this Act by the
President of the United States, by
proclamation, in which such apportion-
ment shall be fully specified and an
nounced, order an election of the del
Co. To-, ~,
Territories. to be held on the tenth
Tuesday after the approval of this Act
as aforesaid; and the proper officials
as now provided by law in each OF said
Territories, respectively. shall imme-
diately upon the issuance of such proc
lamatiOns, make, or cause to be made,
as the case may be, in time for the
election, supplemental or general
registration, as may be necessary, of
the male citizens of the United States
over the age of twenty-one years who
shall have resided in said Territories,
respectively, for six months, in the
county for ninety days, and in the pre-
cinct, ward or election district where
they are to vote thirty days next pre-
ceding the date fixed for said election,
whose names shall be placed upon or
added to the great registers, or reg
istratiOn lists. as the case may be, ex
hibiting the names of the qualified vo-
ters of said Territories, respectively
And the persons so qualified shall be
entitled to be so registered and to vote
for delegates to the constitutional con,
vention. Such election for delegates
shall be conducted, the returns made.
and the certificates of persons elected
to such convention issued as near as
may be- in the same manner as is pre-
regulating elections
therein of members of the Legislature:
Provided, That the secretary, or other
proper officer of the Territory of Ari-
Zona, into whose hands the result of
said election in the Territory of Ari-
Zona finally comes, shall immediately
transmit and certify the same to the
secretary of the Territory of New Mex
leo, at Santa Fe. Persons possessing
the qualifications emitting them to
vote for delegates to the constitutional
convention under this Act shall be en-
titled to vote on the ratification or re-
lection of the constitution submitted
to the people of said Territories here
under and on the election of all Off
cials whose election is taking place at
the same time. under such rules or reg
ulations as said convention may pre-
scribe. not in conflict with this Act:
Provided, That said registration lists
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