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Article 21 thereof, then the next regular session following said special session shall be omitted.

'''Sec. 22. Regular election following first session of legislature to be omitted.''' The first regular election that would otherwise occur following the first session of the legislature, shall be omitted, and all county and precinct officers elected at the first election held under this constitution shall hold their office for the full term thereof, commencing at the expiration of the term of the county and precinct officers then in office, or the date of their qualification.

'''Sec. 23. Why constitution framed.''' This convention does hereby declare on behalf of the people of the Territory of Wyoming, that this constitution has been prepared and submitted to the people of the Territory of Wyoming for their adoption or rejection, with no purpose of setting up or organizing a state government until such time as the congress of the United States shall enact a law for the admission of the Territory of Wyoming as a state under its provisions.

The following article [sections] shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this state:

'''Sec. 24. State part of United States.''' The State of Wyoming is an inseparable part of the federal union and the constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.

'''Sec. 25. Religious liberty.''' Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and no inhabitant of this state shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship.

'''Sec. 26. Ownership of certain lands disclaimed; restriction on taxation of nonresidents.''' The people inhabiting this state do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes, and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States and that said Indian lands shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the congress of the United States; that the lands belonging to the citizens of the United States residing without this state Rh