Page:A bill to provide a temporary government for the territory of Arizona.djvu/1



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that all that part of the present Territory of New Mexico situated west of a line, running due South from the point when the South West Corner of the Territory of Colorado joins the Northern boundary of the Territory of New Mexico, to the Southern boundary line of said Territory of New Mexico, be and the same is hereby executed into a temporary Government by the name of the Territory of Arizona, Provided that nothing contained in the provisions of this act shall be construed to prohibit the Congress of the United States from dividing said Territory or changing its boundaries, in such manner and at such time as it may deem proper. Provided further that said Government shall be maintained and continued until such time as the people residing in said territory, shall with the consent of Congress, form a State Government, republican in form, as proscribed in the Constitution of the United States, and apply for and obtain admission into the Union as a State on terms of approval an equal footing with the original States. and the State or States which may be erected out of said Territory shall be formed with the express stipulation that after their admission, they shall forever remain a part of the American union subject to the Constitution of the United States and such