Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-30
iEN. F0RAKER'S BI[[
 SPONSORS EDUCATION

Thc following is copy of tae bill, 11l7 for the admission of Arizona |
 statehood, introduced by Mir. For. | ,er in the Senate last week: bill: To enable the people of Ari. | na to form constitution and state | yernment and to be admitted into | e Union on an equal footing with the
 reinal states. r. Enacted By the Senate and House of Representatives of the | United States of America In Con | rr,.ss Assembled: That the inhabitants of all that part | the area of the United States now | Ons,itutang the Territory of Arizona | at present described may become Le state of Arizona, as hereinafter | Iroy ided. See. ,. That all qualified electors of ! nid Territory are hereby authorized to o,e for and choose delegates to form convention in said Territory. Such Eelegates shall possess the qualifca- ions of such electors. The said con. Eention shali consist of forty.one dele rstes, apportioned among the several tounties within the limits of the pro. kosed state as follows: Apache eonn. v, two delegates; Cochise county, five ielegates; Coeonino county, two dele hates: Graham county, four delegates; eila county, three delegates; Maricopa county, five delegate; Monave county, two delegates; Navajo county, two delegates; Pima county, four dele. rates; Pinal county, three delegates; santa Cruz county, two delegates; Yavapai county, five delegates; Yuma bounty, two delegates; and the gover- por of said Territory shall within thir. y days after the passage of this act, by proclamation, order an election of lAs delegates aforesaid in said Terri. tory. to be held on such day as he may n suco proclamation designate, not less than thirty nor more than ninety Jays after the issuance thereof; and the boards of supervisors of the coun- aes of the Territory shall, immediate y upon the issuance of the governor 6 proclamation ordering the election Of delegates to . constitutional conven. ton as herein provided, authorize and require . supplemental registration of ihe male citizens of the United States over the age of twenty-one years wno will have resided in the Territory for ax months next preceding tho date fixed for said election, whose names shall he added to the great registers exhibiting the names of the qualified voters of the Territory st the last gen. sral election held therein, which snail Qualify them to vote for delegates "a he constitutional conventions; and such election for delegates shall bs conducted, the returns made, and tn. certificate of persons elected to sucf convention issued dn the same manner as Is prescribed by the laws of said Territory regulating elections thereir of members of the legislature. Per sons possessing the qualifications en titling them to vote for delegates un der this act shall be entitled to vot' on the ratification or rejection of 'h' constitution, under such rules ar regu lations as said convention may pre- scribe, not in conflict with this act. The Constitutional Convention.
 See. 8. That the delegates to th convention thus elected shall meet a seat of government of said Territor on the third Monday after their cleo ton, and after organization shall d. clare on behalf of the people of sal proposed state that they adopt tn constitution of the United State wbereupon the said convention sha be, and is, hereby authorized to for a constitution and state governmer for said proposed state. The constit' ton shali be Republican in form, an make no distinction in civil or politics right on account of race or color, q cept as to Indians not taxed, and n' be Ycpugnant to the constitution of q United States and the principles of ti declaration of independence. And sal convention shall provide, by ordinan, irrevocsble without tne consent or VI United States and the people or ss state.
 First: That perfect toleration of Iigious sentiment shall be secured, ai that no inhabitants of said state sha ever be molested in person or proper on account of his or her mode or lipious worship, and that polygamo or plural marriages are forever P' hibited.
 Second: That the people inhabitil said proposed state do agree ana clare that they forever disclaim right and title to the unappropriat public lands lying within the pouna ries thereof and to all lands iyii within said limits owned or held
 any Indian or Indian tribes, except
 hereinafter provided, and that un the title thereto shall have been tinguished by the United States same shall be and remain subject
 the disposition of the United Stat
 and Indian lands shall remain unc the absolute jurisdiction and control
 the Congress of the United stat'
 that the lands belonging to citizens
 The United States residing without
 said state shall never be taxed at
 higher rate than the lands belong,
 to residents thereof; that no ta'
 shall be imposed by the state on lar
 or property therein belonging to
 which may hereafter be Purehssed
 the United States or reserve Tor
 use; but nothing herein, or in the or
 nance herein provided for, snail ?
 clude the said state from taxing,
 other lands are taxed, any lands o'
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