Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-30

Thrd That the debts and liabilities of said Territory of Arizona shall be assumed and paid by said state.
 Fourth: That provision shall be made for the establishment and main. tenance of n system of public schools, which shall be open to all the children of said state and free from sectarian control; and said schools shall always he conducted in English: Provided, that this act shall not preclude the teaching of other languages in said public schools.
 Final Step to Admission.
 See. {. That in ease constitution and state government snail be formed in compliance with the provisions of this act, the convention forming the same shall provide by ordinance for submitting said constitution Co the people of said proposed state for its ratification or rejection, at an election to be held at time fixed in said ordi. nance, at which election the qualified voters of said proposed state shall vote directly for or against the propos. ed constitution, and for or against any
 provisions separately submitted. The returns of said election shall be made to the secretary of the Territory, wno, with the governor and chief justice thereof, or any two of them, shall can.
 vass the same; and if a majority of the legal votes east on that question
 shall be for the constitution, the gov. ernor shall certify the result to tho President of the United States, to | gether with the statement of tho
 votes east thereon, and upon separate
 articles or propositions, and a copy of | said constitution, articles, propositions
 and ordinances. And if the constitu ton and government of said proposed 1 state are republican in form, and il | the provisions in this act have beer complied with, in the formation there
 of, it shal be the duty of the President
 of the United States, witnin twent,
 days from the receipt of the certificate
 of the result of said election and fh' statement of the votes east thereon
 and a copy cf said constitution, arti
 eles, proposition, and ordinances iron
 said commission to issue his proelama
 tion announcing the result of sai'
 election, and thereupon the propose
 state of Arizona shall be deemed ad
 mi.aed by Congress in 10 the Union
 under and by virtue of tkns act, on .,
 equal footing with the original states
 from and after the date of said proc
 lamation or at the expiration of th
 time prescribed for issuing the sam' The original Of said consti,ntior articles, propositions, and ordinance and the election returns, and cop of the statement of the vote cast q } said election shall be forwarded an turned over by the secretary of th ? Territory \to the state authorities. Election of Omcsrs.
 , Sec. i. That until the next gener' census or until otherwise provided D l. law said state shall be entitled 10 on l. representative in the House of Repr 3 sentatives of the United States, whic g representative, together with the go 1. ernor and other officers provided f' ]. in said constitution, may be elects
 on the same day of the election for q
 adoption of the constitution; and n c til said state officers are elected ar f qualified under the provisions Of tl V constitution, and the state Is admitt' {. into the Union, the Territorial office 3. shall continue 10 discharge the duti d of the respective officers in said Teri Ie tory.
 s. See. c. That upon the admission II said state into the Union. sectio m numbered thirteen, sixteen, thn' 1t three. and thirty'six an every townsn u. of said proposed state, and where su d sections ar any parts thereon ha al been sold or otherwise disposed of \. or under the authority of any act pt Congress other lands equivalent the' ,e to. in legal subdivisions of not i' ,e than one.quarter section and as c' i'd tiguous as may be to the section ce lieu of which the same is taken, ,e hereby granted 10 said state for i'd support Of common schools, such
 demnity lands to he selected witi e. said state in such manner as the I' ,d islature may provide, with the apprr' III al of the secretary of the interi' ty Provided. That the thirteenth, s e teentb. thirty-third. and sixty'si' usl sections embraced in permanent res 70. vations for national purposes shall
 at any time be subject to the gra nc nor to the indemnity provisions Of le. act. nor shall any lands embraced all Indian, military, or other reser'at'' cd of any character be subject to la. grants of this act. but sucn reservat ng lands shall be subject to the indemn by provision of this act.
 ms A Gift of Land.
 iii Sec. '. That three hundred secn ,x. of the unappropriated public la he within said state, to be selected to located in legal subdivisions as es, yided in section four of this act, s' Ter be. and are hereby, granted 10 of state for the purpose of erecting ? ss. lie buildings at the capital or of state and payment of the bonds p be for the erection of the capitol.
 See. s. That the lands gran'ea mo the Territory of Arizona by the ae, res February eighteenth, eighteen 'ds dred and eighty.one, entitled "An or to grant lands to Dakota, Moh'' bv Arizona, Idaho, and Wyoming TOT it's versity purposes" are hereby we, we, di. in the state of Arizona, 10 the ex' re- of the full quantity of seventy. as sections to said state, and any Po, VII. of said lands that may not nave ey. selected by said Territory or ATT"