Bisbee daily review., 1910-02-10

is of particular interest to the people:
 The governor or said territory shall, within thirty days after the approval of this act, by proclamation, in which the aforesaid apportionment of dele gates to the convention shall be fully specified and announced. order an election of the delegates aforesaid on a day, designated by him in said proc lamation, not earlier than ninety days after the approval of this act. Such election for delegates shall be held and conducted. the returns made, and the certificates issued, as nearly as prescribed by the laws of said terri tory regulating elections therein of members of the legislature existing at the time of the last election of said members of the legislature; and the provisions of said laws in all respects. including the qualifications of electors and registration, are hereby made ap-
 
 plicable to the election herein pro vided for; and said convention waen so called to order and organized shall be the sole judge of the election and qualifications of its own members. Qualifications to entitle persons to vote on the ratification or rejection of the constitution formed by said con yention when said constitution shall be submitted to the people of said territory hereunder shall be the same as the qualifications to entitle per sons to vote for delegates to said con vention.
 Sec. 19. That the delegates to the convention thus elected shall meet In the hall of the house of representa- tives in the capital of the territory os Arizona at 12 o'clock noon on the fourth Monday after their election. and they shall receive compensation for the period they actually are In session, but not for more than sixty days in all: after organization they shall declare on behalf of the people of said proposed state that they adopt the constitution of the United States whereupon the said convention shall be, and is hereby. authorized to form a constitution and provide for state government fer said proposed state, all in the manner and under the con ditions contained in this act. The constitution shall be republican in form and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed. and shall not be repugnant to the constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Sec. 20 That when said eonsu- I tuition shall be formed, as aforesaid. the convention forming the same shall provide for the submission of said constitution to the people of Arizona for ratification at an election which shall be held on a day named by said convention not earlier than ninety days after said convention adjourns, at which election the qualified voters of Arizona shall vote directly for or against any provisions thereof separ- ately submitted. The returns of said election shall be made by the election officers direct to the secretary of the territory of Arizona at Phoenix, who with the governor and chief justice of said territory, shall constitute a canvassing board, and they, or any of them, shall meet at said city of Phoenix on the third Monday after said election and shall canvass the same. If a majority or the legal votes cast at said election shall reject the constitution, the said canvassine board shall forthwith certify said re suit to the governor of said territory together with the statement of votei cast upon the question of the ratifica tion or rejection of said constitution and also a statement of the vote cast for or against such provision thereof as were separately submitte' to the voters at said election whereupon the governor of said tel ritory shall, by proclamation, orde the constitutional convention to r' assemble at a date not later tha twenty days after the receipt by sal governor of the documents showin the rejection of the constitution b the people or the rejection of any pr' visions thereof separately submitted and thereafter a new constitutio shall be framed and the same pr ceedings shall be taken in regar thereto in like manner as if said col
 stitution were being originally pr pared for submission and submitte to the people.
 Sec. 21. That when said eonstit
 ton and such provisions thereof have been separately submitted shs
 have been duly ratified by the peep
 of Arizona, as aforesaid. certifi'
 copy of the same shall be submitt'
 to the president of the United Stat
 and to congress for approval, togeth
 with the statement of the votes ca
 thereon and upon any provision
 thereof which were separately su
 nftted to and voted upon by the pc
 pie. And if congress and the pre-
 dent approve said constitution al
 the said separate provisions there
 if any. or if the president approv
 the same and congress fails to diss