The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-08-11
ELECTION

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 witn
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 That
the inhabitants of all that part OF the
ares of the United States now con-
shutting h Territories of Arizona
and New Mexico, may, if b 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
ritories are to be ascertained.
1t is provided by Section "a of he
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 moose delegates to form a on
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 the 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.
ly as may be, equitably among the
several counties thereof, in accor
anc 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
OF 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 ]. Hagerman, Governor of New
Mexico, do hereby specify and an
nounce, that, pursuant to an oficial
call dated June 27, 1906, the Chic
Justice of the Territory of New Mex
leo, and the Secretary of the said Tel
ritory, did meet with the Governor O
the Territory in the Executive Ofict
in Santa Fe, and, after a full ant
careful consideration of the subjec
mi a thorough examination of tn,
certified election returns of the sew
eral counties If the Territory, show
ing the total vote cast for Delegate
to Congress at the general election
held in November, 1904, found thai
the total vote cast for all candidates
for Delegate to Congress at the sale
election was 43,O11; that, as sixty
six delegates are to be apportionet
from among the several counties il
accordance with the voting popula
ton as shown by UGH total vote, the
unit for apportionment is one dele
gate for ach $50 votes cast at sucf
general election; that fractions in ex
cess of one-half of said unit, which
would be 326, should entitle a count
TO another delegate. Upon this bash
to each county was, and / do hereby
specifically the same to be