Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-02-02


tho Hamilton joint statehood bill
moved by Senator Foraker:
Soc. 10. That tne inhabitants of all
that part 81 tho area Of the United
States now constituting the territory
Of New Mexico ng ut present described
may become a state "a the union nj
hereinafter provided.
Sec. 20. That MI qualified electors
OF valid territory are hereby authorized
10 vote for and choose Delegates r.
form a eonvsntion IN said territory,
such delegates shall possess the quail.
ficationa ~ such electors, Tho afore.
said convention shall consist of one
hundred and fifteen delegates. appor.
toned among tho several counties
within the limits of the proposed state
ms follows:
Bernaiiilo county, nine delegates:
Chayes county. three delegates; Col.
fax county. six delegates, Dona Ana
county. ak delegates, Eddy county.
two delegates: Grant county, six dele.
gates. Leonard Wood county. two del.
ogates, Luna county. two delegates,
Lincoln county. four delegates; Nc.
Kinley county. two delegates. Mora
county. six delegates: Otoro county.
.H
three delegates: Quay county, two
delegates; Mo Arriba county. aeyea
delegates. Roosevelt county. ono dele.
gate: Sandoval county. -four delegates
Gan Juan county. three delegates: San
Miguel county. twelve delegates: San
In Fe county, eight delegates; Sierra
county, two delegates: Socorro conne
~. Reven delegates, Taos county, elk
delegates, Torrance county. two dele
gates: Union county, three delegates.
and Valencia county. seven delegates.
And the governor Of said territory
shall by proclamation order nm cleo.
tion of tho delegates aforesaid In said
territory. to be held on the sixth Tues.
day after tho passage Of this act.
which proclamation shall be issued
within twenty days after the passage
OF this act: and such election shall
be conducted, the returns made. the
result asceriained. and the certificates
TO the persons elected 10 such conven.
tion iasned Ms nearly ms may be In the
same n as In prescribed by the
laws Of said territory regulating the
elections therein for members Of the
house of representatives of the Iegis-
lative assembly thereof. by tn board
county commissioners of the respec
tive counties, All persons resident In
said proposed state who are qualified
voters OF said territory as herein pro
videi shall ho entitled 10 vote upon
the ratification or rejection Of the con,
stitntion ma prescrlbe no, In conflict
with this act
Sec. II. That the delegates to the
convention thus elected shall meet at
the seat Of governmut Of said terri.
tory on the third Monday after their
election. and. after organization. shall
declare, on b"haif Of the people OF
said proposed state. thar they adopt
the constitution Of the unltei states |
w~heroupon the said convention shah
be. and is hereby. authorized 10 form
a constitution and state government
for said proposed state The eonstltu
ton shall be republican In form. ane
make no distinction In civil or polite
al rights on account of race or color
except as 10 Indians not ,asod.an not
he r%epuenant 10 the constitution Of the
United States and the principles
the Declaration Of Independence And
said convention shan provide nv or.
dinasee irfevocahle without the con.
sent 81 the United States and the pes,
pie OF said state
FIRST. That perfect federation Of
religious sentiment shah be sscare.i
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and that no inhabiiant II said state
SHAH ever Ire molested ia person ar
property on account 81 his ar her
mode Of religious worship: and tina,
IolSgamous or plural Marriages and
The sale. barter. or swing of iasoSl
eating liquors 10 Indians are foocve-
prohibited.
Second Tha, Tho people inAahliue
said proposed state 20 arrss and De
clare thar they forever diseialm An
right and title TO The unappropriasea
public lands lying within the hoanda
ries thereof ana % all lands wing