Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-12-14

The following is copy OF house
Bill No. 22273, introduced by Dele
gate Andrews providing for statehood
for the territory of New Mexico:
A BILL
10 enable the people Of New Mexico
to form constitution and state gov
ernment and be admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the
original States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the inhabitants OF all
of that part of the area of the United
States now constituting the Territory
eof New Mexico as at present described
may become State Of the Union as
hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. That all qualified electors
sof said Territory are hereby authorized
ITO vote for and choose delegates to
form a convention in said Territory;
such delegates shall possess the quail
ifications of such electors. The afore-
said convention shall consist OF one
hundred and thirteen delegates, appor-
toned among the several counties
within the limits OF the proposed
State. and the governor, chief justice,
and the secretary of the said Territory
hn Il1nUatnC
thus elected among the several coun-
ties thereof in accordance with the
voting population as shown by the vote
cast for Delegate in Congress in SAID
Territory in nineteen hundred and
eight.
And the Governor OF said Territory
shall by proclamation order an elec-
ton of the delegates aforesaid in said
Territory to be held on the sixth
Tuesday after the passage of this act,
which proclamation shall be issued
within twenty days after the passage
,of this Act; and such election shall
be conducted, the returns made, the
to the persons elected to such conven
tion issued as nearly as may be In
the same manner as is prescribed by
the laws of said Territory regarding
the elections therein for members OF
the house of representatives OF the
legislative assembly thereof by the
board of county commissioners of the
respective counties. All persons resi-
dent in said proposed State who are
qualified voters of said Territory al
herein provided, shall be entitled t.
vote upon the ratification or rejection
of the constitution, under such rule
and regulations as said convention
may prescribe, not in conflict with thi
act.
Sec. 8. That the delegates to TIN
convention thus elected shall meet
the seat Of government Of said Tel
ritory on the third Monday after thei
election, and after organization sha1
declare, on behalf of the people Q
said proposed State, that they ador
the Constitution Of the United States
wherelpon the said convention sha
be. and is hereby, authorized to forl
constitution and state governmer
for said proposed State. The const
tuition shall be republican in form an
make no distinction in civil or poll
ical rights on account of race or colo
except as to Indians not taxed, an
not to be repugnant to the Const
tuition Of the United States and tt
principles Of the Declaration OF Ind
pendence. And said convention sha
provide, by ordinance, irrevocab
without the consent Of the Unite
States and the people Of said State:
First. That perfect toleration
religious sentiment shall be secure
and that no inhabitant OF said Sta
shall ever be molested in person
NJ property on account Of his or 4
mode Of religious worship, and tn
polygamous or plural marriages a
forever prohibited
That the capital Of said State sh'
temporarily be at the city Of san
sFe, in the present Territory OF NJ
Mexico, and shall not be chang
therefrom previous to ammo DOM
nineteen hundred and thirty, but
location Of said capital may, after 81
year, be fixed by the electors Of $;
State, voting at an election to
provided for by the Legislature.
Second. That the people inhabiti
said proposed State do agree and
.clare that they forever disclaim
right and title to the unappropria1
public lands lying within the DO
daries thereof, and to all lands lyl
within said limits owned or held
I sany Indian Or Indian tribes; and 4
.l,infil the title thereto shall have bt