The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-07-28
.ShaH Arizona and New Mexico be
united to form one State?
(square) YES. (square) NO.

united to form n State?"
(square) YES. (square) NO.
That electors desiring to vote in the
Affirmative shall place a cross mark
in the square to the left of the word
YES" and those desiring to vote in
the negative shall place a cross mark
in the square to the left of the word
mo" And l do further order that in
each county of the Territory, the mum
Der of delegates to the said conven-
ton to which each county is entitled
as herein announced, shall be voted
for in accordance with the provisions
of said Act of Congress, and that the
names of the candidates to the on
vention and the question in form and
substance as herein set forth shall
be printed on the same ballot. And
after carefully considering the said
Act of Congress, and consulting the
legal authorities of the Territory, in
regard to it's Interpretation, l do
hereby recommend that, in order to
prevent b possibility of any illeg-
atty in this all-important election, the
ballot upon which said question, in
form and substance as herein set
forth, and the name of the candidates
to the aforesaid convention, are print
ed, shall be a separate and distinct
ballot from that upon which are print
Delegate to Congress, Members of the
Territorial Council and House of Rep
resentatives, and County Officers.
Such election for delegates shall be
conducted, the returns made, and the
certificates of persons elected to said
convention issued, as near as may be
in the same manner as is prescribed
by the laws of the Territory of New
Mexico, regulating the election of
members OF the territorial legislature,
and the u of n hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, OF so much thereof
as may be necessary, is appropriated
by the said Act for d%efraying ex-
penses incident to the elections and
conventions provided for in the Act,
including the expenses of holding the
election for members of the Consti-
tutional Convention.
Section 25 of the said Act of Con
gress provides that if a majority in
each of said Territories snail vote
for joint statehood, 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 Fe, or
Monday, December the third, nine
teen HUNDRED and six, and, after hav-
ing declared on behalf of the people
of the proposed state thai they adopt
the Constitution of the United States,
they shall be authorized to form a
constitution and State government for
the proposed state.
Section &c of the said Act pro-
vides that in case sucn a constitution
and State government shall be form
ed in compliance with all the provis-
ions as set forth in the Act, the con
vention forming the same shall pro
vide by ordinance for submitting the
said constitution to the people of the
proposed state at a fixed time, for
its ratification or rejection, and that,
if a majority of the legal votes cast
on that question shall be for the con-
stitution, that such result be certi-
fed to the President of the United
States, who, within twenty days after
receiving said report, shall, if he
finds the said constitution and govern
ment to be republican in form, and
that the provisions of this Act have
been complied with in the formation
thereof, issue a proclamation an
nouncing the result of said election;
whereupon the new state of Arizona
shaH be deemed admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the
original states. The new state shall,
until otherwise provided by law, be
entitled to two representatives in the
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States, and to two Senators in
the Senate OF the United states.
In addition to the paramount duty