The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-09-08
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.

IIGS ION FROCLA MA
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE TERRI
TORY OF NEW MEXICO:
On the sixteenth day of June, 1906,
the President of the United States
approved an Act of the Congress, en-
titled:
An Act to enable the people of
Oklahoma and of Indian Territory
to form a Constitution and State
government and be admitted into
the Union on an equal footing WITH
the original states; and to enable
the people of New Mexico and of
Arizona to form a constitution and
state government and be admitted
into the Union on an equal footing
with the original states"
Sections % to Al inclusive of the
said Act of Congress, provides tina
the inhabitants of all that part of the
area of the United States now con-
%stituting the Territories of Arizona
and New Mexico, may, if the people
OF those Territories so elect, become
the State of Arizona, and set forth in
detail the procedure whereby the
wishes of the people of the two ter
Titories are to be ascertained,
1t is provided by Section "a of the
said Act, at the general election to
be held on the sixth day of November
nineteen hundred and six, all the
electors of said Territories, respective
ly, qualified to vote at such election
are thereby authorized to vote for
and choose delegates to form a con-
vention for said Territories, which
shall consist of one hundred and ten
delegates, ~sixty-six of which delegates
shall be elected to said convention
by the people of h Territory of
New Mexico and forty-four by the
people of the Territory of Arizona,
and that the governors, chief justices
and secretaries of eacn of said Ter
ritories, respectively, shall apportion
the delegates to be thus elected from
their respective Territories, as near
1y as may be, equitably among the
several counties thereof, in accor-
dance with the voting population as
shown by the vote cast for Delegate
in Congress in the respective Terri
tories in nineteen hundred and four.
1t is further provided by the said Act
that the governors of said Territories
respectively, shall within thirty days
after the approval thereof, to-wit on
or before July sixteenth, 1906, issue
a proclamation in which the afore-
said apportionment of delegates to
the convention shall be fully specified
and announced, and in which other
matters, hereinafter referred to, shall
be clearly stated.
In accordance, therefore, with such
provisions of the said Act, l. Her
bert J. Hagerman, Governor of New
Mexico, do hereby specify and an
nounce that, pursuant to an official
call dated June 81, 1906, the Chief
Justice of the Territory of New Mex
leo, and the Secretary of the said Ter
ritory, did meet with the Governor of
the Territory in the Executive Office
in Santa Fe, and, after a full and
careful consideration of the subject
and a thorough examination of the
certified election returns of the sew
eral counties of the Territory, show
ing the total vote cast for Delegate
to Congress at the general election
held in November, 1904, found that
the total vote cast for all candidates
for Delegate to Congress at the said
election was 43,011; that, as sixty
six delegates are to be apportioned
from among the several counties in
accordance with the voting popula-
ton as shown by such total vote, the
unit for apportionment is one dele
gate for each 652 votes cast at such
general election; that fractions in ex-
cess of one-half of said unit, which
would be 326, should entitle a county
to another delegate. Upon this basis
the number of delegates apportioned
to each county was, and I do hereby
specifically announce the same to be
as follows:
To Bernalillo County 5 delegates.
Chaves County 2 delegates.
Colfax County 4 delegates.
bona Ana County 8 delegates.
Eddy county, 1 delegate.
Grant County 8 delegates.
Guadalupe County 2 delegates.