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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3335. 1906. 285 made to the circuit and district courts of the United States except upon cause shown by written request of one of the parties to such action or proceeding filed in the proper court; and in the absence of such request such cases shall be proceeded with in the proper State courts. Sec. 40. That the constitutional convention shall by ordinance pro- ,,§*¤$Q°¤<>¤·¤¤¤t¤¢<> vide for the election of officers for a full State government, including ° ce ' members of the legislature and two Representatives in Congress, at the time for the election for the ratification or rejection of the constitution; one of which Representatives shall be chosen from a Con- f<;¤K¤‘¢¤¤i¤¤¤l disgressional district comprised of the present Territor of Arizona, to tr ° S` be known as the First Congressional district, and tlie other from an Congressional district comprised of the remainder of said State, to be known as the Second Congressional district; but the said State govern- _ Stew soverpmem ment shall remain in abeyance until the State shall be admitted into iiia£ii>°i{°°°° ml m` the Union as proposed by this Act. In case the constitution of said Legislature is is- State shall be ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of said °r€ii4i°»ii°ii[°°°°°t°ti°” Territories voting at the election held therefor as hereinbefore provided, but not otherwise, the legislature thereof may assemble at Santa Fe, organize, and elect two Senators of the United States in the B'1<>¤¤¤¤¤fSe¤¤¤¤¤s. manner now prescribed by the laws of the United States; and the gov- ccrufying election ernor and secretary of state of the proposed State shall certify the §’§.eS.ii'.?°¤i°€·`i§`Sf”°° Rm election of the Senators and Representatives in the manner required by law, and when such State is admitted into the Union, as rovided in this Act, the Senators and Representatives shall be entitlled to be admitted to seats in Congress and to all rights and privileges of Senators and Representatives of other States in the Congress of the United States; and the officers of the State overnment formed in pursuance 0v<=¤¤¤¤L vf Sure of said constitution, as provided by the constitutional convention, shall gmmmm proceed to exercise all the functions of State officers; and all laws of Tzjtgglggrggws w said Territories in force at the time of their admission into the Union mm ' shall be in force in the res ctive portions of said State until changed by the legislature of said Stgte, except as modihed or changed py this Act or by the constitutionof the State; and the laws of the nited ¤¤l*¤d $*¤¤¤·l¤w¤- States shall have the same force and effect within the said States as elsewhere within the United States. _ Sec. 41. That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or e,:cg,g{,¤g;{;·;*:;·v;:{ so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of mm upenm. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for defraying all and every kind and character of expense incident to the elections and conventions rovided for in this Act; that is, the payment of the expenses of holding the election for members of the constitutional convention and the submission of the question of joint statehood and the election for the ratification of the constitution, at the same rates that are paid for similar services under the Territorial laws, respgctively, and for the payment of the mileage for and salaries of mem rs of the constitutional convention at the same rates that are paid the said Territorial legislatures under national law, and for the payment of all proper and necessary expenses, officers, clerks, and messengers thereof, and printing and other expenses incident thereto: B-oeided, That any pom., be d expense incurred in excess of said sum of one hundred and lift; thou- by QQK ° l`"' sand dollars shall be paid by said State. The said money s all be axpenaimm. expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be forwarded, to be locally expended in the present Territory of Arizona and in the present Territory of New Mexico, through the respective secretaries of said Territories, as may be necessalry and proper, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, in o er to carry out the full intent and meaning of this Act. Approved, June 16, 1906.