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 278 FIFTY—N1NTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3335. 1906. U“*'*°*’ S*·“°°l'““ stitution of the State, and the laws of the United States not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within said State as elsewhere within the United States. _ _ _ M!-tf°°°P**“°° °‘ "’*' Sm. 22. Thatthe constitutional convention prov1ded_forhere1n shall, ` by ordinance irrevocable, accept the terms and conditions of this Act. .,.*§gg,{*;;d_°A!,mm Sec. 23. That the inhabitants of all that part of the area of the muewummrn United States now constitutin the Territories of Arizona and New '"°"°" Mexico, as at present described, may become the State of Arizona, as hereinafter provided. _ _ vg,°,{*g,§{*““°““ °°“‘ Sec. 24. That at the general election to be held on the sixth day of ·me¤n¤¤ or use- November, nineteen hundred and six, all the electors of said Territo- "°°°* uu"` ries, respectively, qualified to vote at such election, are hereby authorized to vote for and choose delegates to form a convention for said APP°'“°'“”““— Territories. The aforesaid convention shall consist of one hundred and ten delegates, sixty-six of which delegates shall be elected to said convention by the people of the Territory of New Mexico and forty- four by the people of the Territory of Arizona; and the governors, , chief justices, and secretaries of each of said Territories, respectively, shall apportion the delegates to be thus elected from their respective Territories, as nearly as may be, equitably among the several counties thereof in accordance with the voting population as shown by the vote gastdfori Delegate in Congress in the respective 'POI'I'll'»0l'l6S in nineteen un re and four. B•“°“· That at the said neral election and on the same ballots on which the names of candidsltes to the convention aforesaid are printed, there mQ,:{:gg°m*gm},{‘*j°j* shall be submitted to said qualified electors of each of said Territories p qluestion which shall be stated on the ballot in substance and form as o ows: ‘§hall Arizona and New Mexico be united to form one State? “N [1 es. r E} o. Electors desiring to vote in the aiiirmative shall place a cross mark in the squar·e to the left of the word "Yes," and those desiring to vote in the ne five shall place a cross mark in the square to the left of the _,C¤tj*~“Yi¤¤ results °‘ word “Nil; in the form above prescribed. The governors and secre- L €C OIL. K. . • ¤ • taries of the respective Terr1tor1es shall certify and transmit, as soon l as may be practicable, the results of said election each to the other ,,.g,Sr,'{,;‘j;’§‘,'}'°l‘Q,,f{},§,’f and likewise to the Secretary of the Interior, and if it appears from %¢¤ my be admit- the returns thus certified that a ma]ority of the qualified electors in ' each of said Territories who voted on the question aforesaid at such election voted in favor of the union of New i lexico and Arizona as one State, then, and not otherwise, the inhabitants of that part of the area of the United States now constituting the Territories of Arizona and ` New Mexico as at present described may become the State of Arizona ,,.g{,,,,f,§° Q," ,;}§},f_{ as hereinafter provided ; but if in either of said Territories a majority ¤tg::;¤;'g·?(¤;¤¤=di¤s¤¤<=- of the qualilic electors voting on the question aforesaid at such elec- ‘ tron shall apipcar by such certified returns to have voted against the union of said Territories then, and in that event, section twenty-three and all succeeding sections of this Act shall thereafter be null and void and of no effect, excepting that the appropriation made in section forty-one hereof shall be and remain available for defraying all and eyery kind and character of expense incurred on account of the electron of delegates to the convention and the submission of the question aforesaid. e,,§’L§}f,§Qf'““""" '"' The governors of said Territories, respectively. shall, within thirty days after the approval of this Act, by proclamation in which the aforesaid apportionment of delegates to the convention shall be fully specified an announced and the aforesaid question to be voted on by t e electors shall be clearly stated, order that the dele ates aforesaid in their respective Territories shall be voted for and the question aforesaid shall be submitted to the qualified electors in each of said