The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-01-07

at an election To De ned at a TIM
fixed in said ordinance, which shall
be not less than sixty days nor more
than six months from the adjourn
ment of the convention. at which elet
posed. State shall vote directly foi
or against the proposed constitution
and for or against any provisions
thereof separately submitted. The
returns of said election shall be made
by the election officers direct to the
secretary of the Territory of New
Mexico at Santa Fe; who. with the
governors N chief justices OF said
Territories. or any four of them, shall
meet at said city of Santa Fe on the
third Monday after said election and
shall canvass the same; and if a ma.
jority of the legal votes cast on that
question shall be for the constitution
the said canvassing board sha1 certi.
fly the result to the President of the
United States, together with the state
upon separate articles or propositions
and a copy of said constitution, artic-
les, propositions, and ordinances. And
if the constitution and government of
said proposed State are republican in
form, and if the provisions in this
Act have been complied with in the
formation thereof, it shall be the du-
ty TO the President of the United
States. within twenty days from the
receipt of the certificate of the result
of said election and the statement of
the votes cast thereon and a copy of
said constitution. articles. PROPOSE
lions. and ordinances from said board
to issue his proclamation announc-
ing the result of said election, and
thereupon the proposed State shall
be deemed admitted by Congress into
the Union. under and by virtue Of
this Act, under the name of Arizona,
an equal footing with the original
States, from and after the date Of said
proclamation.
The original of said constitution. artic
les. propositions. N ordinances, and
the election returns, and a copy of
the statement of the votes cast at
said election shall be forwarded and
turned over by the secretary of the
Sec. %. That until the next gener
al census or until otherwise provided
by law said State shall be entitled
TO two Representatives in the House
Of Representatives of the United
which Representatives, togeth
with the governor and all other
officers provided for in said constitu-
shall be elected on the same day
Of the election for the adoption of the
icers are elected and qualified under
the provisions of the constitution,
md the State is admitted into the I'm
ion, the Territorial officers of said
Territories. respectively. shall con-
10 discharge the duties of their
respective Offices in said Territories.
Sec. "a. That upon the admis-
sion of said State into the Union
is hereby granted unto it, in
the sections thereof hereto
fo-a granted, four section of public
and in each township in the proposed
for the support of free public
lonsectarian common schools. 10 wit:
numbered thirteen. sixteen,
and ~thirty-six, and where
such sections IT any parts thereof
nave beer solo or otherwise disposed
Of by or under the authority of any
Act of Congress other lands equiva-
lent thereto, in legal subdivisions Of
less than one quarter section and
as contiguous as nay be to the Sec
ton in lieu of which the same is TAX
en-; such indemnity lands to be Sc
within said respective portions
of said State in the manner provided
in this Act: Provided, That the thir-
sixteenth, thirty-third, and
thirty-sixth sections empraced in per-
manent reservations for national pur-
poses shall not at n time be subject
to the grants nor to the indemnity
of this Act, nor shall any
lands embraced in Indian, military,
or other reservations of any charac-
ter be subject to the grants of this
Act. but such reservation lands shall
subject to the indemnity provision
of this act.
Sec. 25. That two hundred sec
tons of Incorporated nonmineral
public lands within said State, to be
selected and located in legal subd1-
visions. as provided in this Act. are
hereby granted to said State for the
purpose of erecting legislative, execu-
tive, and judicial public buildings in
the same. and for the payment of the
bonds heretofore or hereafter issued
therefor.
Sec. &c. That the lands granted