Graham guardian., 1911-02-03
THE CONSTITUTION
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qualified electors at said special
election), and if a majority of the
qualified electors voting thereon
shall approve and ratify such pro.
posed amendment or amendments
in said regular or special election
such amendment or amendments
shall become a part of this Consti.
tuition. Until method of publicity
is otherwise provided by law the
Secretary of State shall have such
proposed amendment or amend
ments published for a period of at
least ninety days previous to the
date of said election In at least one
newspaper in every county of the
State in which newspaper shall be
published, in such manner as may
be prescribed by law. If more than
one proposed amendment shall be
submitted at any election, such pro-
posed amendments shall be submit
ted in such manner that the electors
may vote for or against such pro-
posed amendments separately.
Sec. 2. No Convention shall be
called by the Legislature to propose
alterations, revisions or amendments
to this Constitution, or to propose a
new Constitution. unless laws pro-
viding for such Convention shall
first be approved by the people on a
Referendum vote at a regular or
special election, and any amend
ments, alterations, revisions, or new
Constitution proposed by such Con-
vention shall be submitted to the
electors Of the State at a general or
special election and be approved by
the majority of the electors voting
thereon before the same shall be-
come effective.
ARTICLE XXI
SCHEDULE AND MISCELLANEOUS
Sec. /. No rights, actions, suits,
proceedings. contracts, claims or
demands, existing at the time Of
the admission of this State into the
Union. shall be affected by change
in the form Of government, from
Territorial to State. but all shall
continue as if no change had taken
place; and all process which may
have been issued under the author
ity of the Territory of Arizona.
previous to its admission into the
Union, shall be as valid as if issued
in the name of the State.
Sec. 2. All laws of the Territory
of Arizona now in force, not repug.
nant to this Constitution, shall re-
main in force as laws Of the State
of Arizona until they expire by their
own limitations or are altered or
by law; Provided. that
wherever the word Territory, mean
ing the Territory of Arizona, ap-
pears in said laws, the word State
shall be substituted.
Sec. 3. All debts, fines, penalties
and forfeitures which have accrued,
or may hereafter accrue. to the
Territory of Arizona shall inure to
the State Of Arizona.
Sec. 4. All recognizances hereto
fore taken, or which may be taken,
before the change from Territorial
to State government, shall remain
valid, and shall pass to and may be
prosecuted in the name of the State.
and all bonds executed to the Terri
tory of Arizona, or to any county or
corporation, or to any
officer, or court. in his or it's official
capacity, shall pass to the State
and their successors in
)fiice for the uses therein expressed,
and may be sued for and recovered |
accordingly; and all the estate, real, |
PERSONAL and mixed, and all judg-
nents, DEGREES, bonds. specialties,
'hoses in action, and claims, de-
nands or debts of whatever descrip-
ion, belonging to the Territory of |
Arizona, shall inure to and vest in
he State Of Arizona, and may be
sued for and recovered by the State
If Arizona in the same manner, and
o the same extent, as the same
night or could have been by the
territory of Arizona.
Sec. 5. All criminal prosecutions
md penal actions which may have
Irisen, or which may arise, before
he change from Territorial to
State government, and which shall
hen be pending, shall be prosecuted
o judgment and execution in the
lame of the State. All offenses
committed against the laws of the
Territory of Arizona before the
hange from Territorial to State
and which shall not be
before such change, may
,e prosecuted in the name, and by
he authority, of the State Of Ari-
ona, with, like effect as though such
hange had not taken place, and all
,enalties incurred and punishments
shall remain the. same as il
his Constitution had not been
dopted. All actions at law and
uits in equity, which may be pend
ng in any of the courts, of the Ter
itory of Arizona at the time of the
hange from a Territorial to State,
government, shall be continued and