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

To enable the people Of New Mexico
to form constitutional and state
government and be admitted into the
union on an equal footing with the
original states; and to enable the
people Of Arizona to form a con-
stitution and state government and
be admitted into the union on ar
equal footing with the original
states.
Be it enacted by the senate and
house Of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled, That the qualified electors of the
territory of New Mexico are hereby
authorized to vote for and choose
delegates to form a constitutional con-
vcntion for said territory for the pul.
pose Of framing a constitution for the
proposed state of New Mexico. Said
convention shall consist of one hun
dred delegates and the governor,
chief justice, ami secretary of said
territory shall apportion the delegates
to be thus selected, as nearly as may
be, equitably among the several coun-
voting population, as shown by the
vote cast at the election for delegate
in congress in said territory in 1908:
Provided, That in the event that any
new counties shall have been added
after said election, the apportionment
for delegates shall be made proper
tionate to the vote cast within the
various precincts contained in the
area of such new counties so created,
and the proportionate number of !lele-
gates so apportioned shall be deduct
ed from the original counties out OF
which such counties shall have been
created,
The governor of said territory shall,
within thirty Jays 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 lay designated by him in said
proclamation, not earlier than sixty
nor later than ninety days after the
approval Of this act. Such election
for delegates shall be held and con
Quoted, the returns, made, and the GER
tificates of persons elected to sue
convention issued, as nearly as may
be, in the same manner as is pre-
scribed by the laws of said territory
regulating elections therein of mem
bers of tho legislature existing at th
time Of the last election Of said mem
bers of the legislature; ami the pro
visions Of said laws in all respects
including tho qualifications of elec
tors and registration, are hereby made
applicable to the election herein pro
Vlded for; and said convention, when
so called to order and organize d, shall
be the sole judge Of the election and
qualifications OF its own members
Qualifications to au.,tle persons tc
vote on the ratification Or rejection
Of the constitution formed by SAID
convention when s4;i constitution
shall be submitted to the people oi
said territory hereunder shall be the
same as the qualifications to entitle
persons TO vote for delegates to sale
convention
Section O. That the delegates to the
convention thus elected shall meet il
the hall of the house of representa-
tiyes in the capital of the territory O.
New Mexico at 12 o'clock noon on thu
fourth Monday after their election
and they shall receive compensation
for the period they actually are il
session, but not for more than sixt!
days in all. After organization the.
shall declare on behalf of the peoplt
of said proposed state that they adop
the constitution of the United States
whereupon the said convention shal
be, and is hereby, authorized to form
constitution and provide for stat
government for said proposed state
all in the manner and under the cona
tions contained in this act. The cor
stitution shall be republican in forr
and make no distinction in civil O
political rights on account of race o
color, and shall not be repugnant t
the constitution of the United State
AMI the principles Of the Declaratio
of Independence.
And said convention shall provide
by an ordinance irrevocable withor
the consent of the United States an
the people of said state
First, That perfect liberation of r
ligious sentiment shall be secured, an
that no inhabitant of said state sha
ever he molested in person or pro
erty on account of his or her mode
religious worship; AMI that polyg
nous or plural marriages, or polyg
nous cohabitation, and the sale, ba
ter, or giving of intoxicating liquo
to Indians and the Introduction
liquors into Indian country, Whit
term shall also include all lands nc
lwned or occupied by the Pueblo
dians of New Mexico, are forever pi
hibited.
Second. That the people inhabiti
said proposed state do agree and
clare that they forever diselaim
right and title to the unappropriat
and ungranted public lands lying WI
in the boundaries thereof and to