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

at the same time, under Such rules or
regulations as said convention may
prescribe, not in conflict with this
Act: Provided. That said registra-
ton lists shall answer for both or all
such elections.
Sec. 81. That the delegates to
the convention thus elected shall
meet in the hall of the house of rep
resentatives of the Territory Of New
Mexico. in the city of Santa Fee there
in. on the fifth Monday after their
election. but shall not receive COM
p~ensation for more than sixty days
shall declare on behalf of the people
of said proposed State hat they
adopt the Constitution of the United
States, ~whereupon the said W
ton shall be. and is hereby. author
lied to form a constitution and State
government for said proposed State.
The constitution 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 Constitution of the United States
and the principles of the Declaration
of Independence. And said conven-
ton shall provide. by ordinance irrevo
| cable without the consent of the Unit
ed States and the people of said State
First. That perfect federation of
religious sentiment shall be secured,
ard that no inhabitant of said State
shall ever be molested in person or
property on account of his or her
mode of religious worship; and that
~polygamous or plural marriages and
the sale. barter or giving of intoxicat-
ing liquors to Indians. are oreve
prohibited.
Second That the people inhabit-
ing said proposed State do agree AMI
declare that they forever disclaim all
right and title to the appropriated
and %ungranted public lands lying with
in the boundaries thereof and to all
lands lying within said limits 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 to 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; thai the lands n
other property belonging to citizens
of the United States residing without
the said State shall never be taxed
at a higher rate han the lands and
other property belonging to residents
thereof; that no taxes shall be i'm
posed by the State on lands or pro-
perty 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 pre-
clude the State from taxing, as other
lands and other property are taxed,
n lands and other property owned
or held by any Indian who has sew
cred his tribal relations and has OBJ
tanned from the United States or from
n person a title thereto by patent
or other grant. save and except such
dAlu oo DSCh Vi may ~ A0NO
to any indian or Indians under any
Act of Congress containing a provis-
ion exempting the lands thus grant
ed from taxation, u said ordinance
shall provide that all such lands shall
be exempt from taxation by said
State so long and to such extent as
such Act of Congress may prescribe.
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ties of said Territory of Arizona and
of said Territory Of New Mexico shall
be assumed and paid by said State,
and that said State shall be subro-
ed to all the rights of reimbursement
which either of said Territories now
as.
Fourth. That provision shall be
made for the establishment and main
tenance of a system of public schools
which shal be open to all the chill
dren of said State and free from
sectarian control; and that said
schools shall always be conducted in
English: Provided, That nothing in
this Act shall preclude the teaching |
of other languages in said public
schools.
Fifth. That said State shall never
enact any law restricting or abridg-
ing the right of sffrage on accoun
of race, color or previous condition
of servitude: Provided, however. and
that ability to read. write, and speak
the English language sufficiently well
to conduct the duties of the office
without the aid of an interpreter shall
be a necessary qualification for all
State officers.
Sixth. That the capital of said