The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-24
ACT WHICH
ADMITS NEW MEXICO
may hereafter prescribe.
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Third. That the debts and liabilities
OF said territory Of New Mexico and
the debts of the counties thereof which
shall he valid and subsisting at the
time of the passage Of this act shall be
assumed aud paid by said proposed state
and that said state shall, as to all such
debts and liabilities, be s~ubrogated to
all the rights, including rights of in.
demnity and reimbursement, 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 constru.
ed as validating OF in any manner lc.
CALLING any territorial, county. munici.
pal ~ other bonds. obligations. or cvi
dences of an indebtedness of said terri.
tory or the counties or municipalities
thereof which now are or may lac in.
valid or 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
' iegallZlng the same.
Fourth. That provision shall be
made for the establishment and main.
t%enance OF a system Of public schools.
which shall be open 10 all the children
of said state and free from sectnrian
control. and hat said schools shall al
ways be conducted in English.
Fifth. That said state shall never
enact any lay restricting or abridging
the right of suffrage on account Of race.
color, or previous condition of servi
tudc. aud that ability TO read. write.
speak and understand the English Ian
guare sufficiently well 10 conduct the
duties of the office without the aid Of
an interpreter shall he a necessary quail
f%ication for all state officers and mem.
hers of the state Legislature.
Sixth. That the capitol Of said state
shall. until unchanged by the electors
voting AZ an election provided for by
the Legislature Of said state for that
purpose. Ice az the city of Santa Fe.
hut no election shall he called or pru>id
eel for prior 70 the thirty.frst 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 ont Of the
provisions nv the United States of thc
act Of congress %entitle "Au Act ap.
rropriatinc the receipts from the sale
and disposal of public lands in Ger.
tain states and territories 10 the con
Struction of irrigation works for the
reclamation Of arid lands approved
June II. 1909, and acts amcnda'orv
thereof or supplementary thereto. "a
the same extent as Il said state had
remained "A territory.
!, Eighth. That whenever hereafter
any of the lands contained within In.
. dian reservations or allotmcnts in said
proposed state shall be allotted. sold,
reserved. or otherwise disposed Of. they
shall be subject for a period Of twenty.
|. five years after such allotment, sale
Of said ordinance in whole ar in part
laws of the United States prohibiting
4, the introduction If liquor into the In.
dian country; and the terms ''Indian'
and Indian country shall include ths
Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and the
lands now owned or occupied by them.
A Ninth. That the state and It's pcopl.
A consent 20 all and singular the pro
. visions Of this act concerning the land,
! hereby granted or confirmed 20 the stat,
= the terms and conditions upon which
said grants and combinations are made
and the means and manner Of enforcial
. such terms and conditions, all in ever,
respect and particular a. in th!. ac'
provided.
All Of which ordinance described il
this section shall, by proper reference
be made q part If any constitution
that shall he formed hereunder. in ,ucl
) terms as shall positively preclude IN,
4 making by any future constitutional
: amendment OF any change or abrogatior
o fsaid ordinance in whole or in par
4 without the consent Of congress.
Section 8. That when said c|onstitu
tion shall he formed as aforesaid con
v~ention forming the same shall provid,
for the submission of said constitution
: 10 the people Of New Mexico for rati
f%cation at an election which shall b,
held on a day named by said conven
tion not earlier than sixty nor late
than ninety days after said constitution