The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-07-24

II Is IuTlHcT PROVIDED Dy In0 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, I, Her
bert j. Hagerman, Governor of New
nounce, that, pursuant to an official
call dated June 27, 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
era1 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 ap~portioned
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 $50 votes cast at such
general election: that fractions in ex-
cess of one-half of said unit, which
would be 1926, snould entitle a county
to another delegate. Upon this basis
the number of delegates apportioned
to each county was, and l do hereby
specifically announce the same to be
as follows:
To Bernalillo County 5 delegates.
Chaves County 2 delegates.
Colfax County 4 delegates.
o Ana County 8 delegates.
Eddy county, 1 delegate.
Grant County 3 delegates.
Guadalupe County 2 delegates.
Lincoln County 2 delegates.
Luna County 1 delegate.
Mckinley County 1 delegate.
Mora County 4 delegates.
Otero County 2 delegates.
Quay County 1 delegate.
Rio Arriba County 5 delegates.
Roosevelt County 1 delegate.
Sandoval County 2 delegates.
San Juan County 1 delegate.
San Miguel County Z delegates.
Santa Fe County 4 delegates.
Sierra County 1 delegate.
Socorro County a delegates.
Taos county, 3 delegates.
Torrance County 1 delegate.
Union County 3 delegates.
Valencia County 3 delegates.
Making a total of sixty-six dele
gates.
In further accordance with Section
"a of said Act of Congress, 1 do here
by order that at the general election
to be held in the Territory of New
Mexico on the sixth day of November
nineteen hunderd and six, there Snail
be submitted to all the qualified cleo
tors of the Territory a question which
shall be stated on the ballot in sub
stance and form as follows:
Shall Arizona and New Mexico be
united to form one Slater"
(square) YES. (square) NO.
Tha 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
NO" And l do further order that in
each county of the Territory, the mum
Der of delegates to the said V
ton to which each county is entitled
as herein announced, shall be voted
for in accordance with the provisions
of said Act of Congress, n that the
names of the candidates to the con-
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 its Interpretation, l do
hereby recommend that, in order to
prevent the possibility of any illeg-
atty in this all-important election, the
ballot upon which aid 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 n distinct
ballot from that pom which are print
| ed the names of the candidates for