The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1910-06-24

owned or nelI by any indian or indian
tribes the right or title to which shall
nave been acquired through or from
the UnlLed States or any prior SOW
! ereIgnty, and that until the title OF
sucn Indlan or Indian tribes shall have
been eXtlngulshed the same shall be
and remain subject to the disposition
and under the absolute jurisdiction
and control OF the congress Of the
United States; that the lands and 9th
er property belonging to citizens of the
United States residing without the
said state shall be taxed at a higher
rate than the lands and other prop
erty belonging to residents thereof;
that no taxes shall be imposed by
the state upon lands Or property there
in belonging to or which may here.
after be acquired by the United States
or reserved for it's use; but nothing
herein, or in the ordinance herein
provided for, shall preclude the said
state from taxing, as other lands ami
other property are taxed, any lands
and other property outside of an In
dian reservation owned or held by any
Indian, save and except such lands
as have been granted or acquired as
aforesaid or as may be granted or con-
iirmed to any milan or Indians under
any act of congress, but said ordinance
shall provide that ali such lands shall
be exempt from taxation by said state
so long and to such extent as congress
has prescribed or may hereafter pre-
scribe.
Third. That the debts and liabilities
of said territory of New Mexico and
the debts of the counties thereof
which shall be valid and subsisting at
the time of the passage of this act
SHALL be assumed and paid by said
proposed state, and that said state
SHAH, as to all such debts and liabil-
tiles, be subrogated to all the rights,
including rights of indemnity and re-
endorsement, existing in favor of said
territory or of any of the several
counties thereof at the time of the
passage of this act: Provided, that
nothing in this act shall be construed
as validating or in any manner legal
izing any territorial, county, municipal
or other bonds, obligations, or evil
dences of Indebtedness of said terri
tory or the counties or municipalities
thereof which now are or may be in
valid OF Illegal at the time said pro-
posed state is admitted, nor shall the
legislature of said proposed state pass
any law in any manner validating or
legalizing the same,
Fourth That provision shall be
made for the establishment and main
tenance of system of public schools,
which shall be open to all the children
OF said state and free from sectarian
control, and that said schools shall
always be conducted in English
Fifth. That said state shall never
enact any law restricting or abridging
the right of suffrage on account OF
race, color or previous condition of
servitude, and that ability to read,
| write, speak and understand the Eng
lish language sufficiently well to con.
duct the duties of the office without
the aid of an interpreter shall be a
necessary qualification for all state
officers ami members of the state
| legislature.
Sixth. That the capital of said state
SHALL until changed by the electors
voting at an election provided for by
the legislature of said state for that
purpose, be at the city of Santa Fe
but no election shall be called or pro
yided for prior to the thirty-first day
of December, 1925.
Seventh. That there be and are re
served to the United States, with full
acquiescence of the state, all rights
and powers for the carrying out of the
provisions by the United States of the
act of congress entitled IAN Act ap
propriating the receipts from the salt
ami disposal of public lands in Ger
tain states and territories to the con
struction Of irrigation works for thu
reclamation of arid lands" approved
June II 1902, and acts amendator.
thereof or supplementary thereto, t.
the same extent as if said state ha'
remained a territory.
Eighth. That whenever hereafte
| any VI tue ldluo COhIdlhCu WiehAh -
dian reservations or allotments Il
said proposed state shall be allotted
solJ, reserved, or otherwise dispose
Of they shall be subject for perio
of twenty-five years after such allo
ment, sale, reservation, or other di'
! posal to all the laws of the Unite
States prohibiting the introduction
I liquor into the Indian country; an
, the terms Indian" and Indian coul
= try shall include the Pueblo Indian
: of New Mexico and the lands no
S owned OR occupied by them.
# Ninth. That the state ami its peop
h consent to all and singular the pr
v visions of this act concerning II
l. lands hereby granted or confirmed
}. the state, the terms and condition
upon which said grants and confirm
g tions are made, and the means al
e. manner of enforcing such terms al
II conditions, all in every respect al
ID particular as in this act provided.
h. All of which ordinance described
II this section shall, by proper referenS