A PROPOSITION

No. 19.

A Proposition Relative to Federal Relations.

Introduced by Mr. Parsons of Cochise County.

It is hereby proposed:

1. That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and that no inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship; and that polygamous or plural marriages,, or polygamous cohabitation, and the sale, barter, or giving intoxicating liquors to Indians, and the introduction of liquors into Indian country are forever prohibited.

2. That the people inhabiting this State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated and ungranted public lands lying within the boundaries thereof and to all lands lying within said boundaries owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribe, the right to title to which shall have been acquired through or from the United States or any prior sovereignty, and that until the title of such Indian or Indian tribe shall have been extinguished the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition and under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United States; that the lands and other property belonging to citizens of the United Stets residing without this State shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the lands and other property belonging to residents thereof; that no taxes shall be imposed by this State upon lands or property therein belonging to or which may hereafter be acquired by the United States or reserved for its use; but nothing herein, or in the ordinance herein provided for, shall preclude this State from taxing as other lands and other property are taxed any lands and other property outside of an Indian reservation owned or held by any Indian, save and except such lands as have been granted or acquired as aforesaid or as may be granted or confirmed to any Indian or Indians under any Act of Congress, but said ordinance shall provide that all such lands shall be exempt from taxation by this State so long and to such extent as Congress has prescribed or may hereafter prescribe.

3. That the debts and liabilities of this State of Arizona, and the debts of the counties thereof, which shall be valid and subsisting at the time of the passage of this Act, shall be assumed and paid by this State and that this State shall, as to all such debts and liabilities, be subrogated to all the rights, including the rights of indemnity and reimbursement, existing in favor of this State or of any of the several counties thereof at the time of the passage of this Act; PROVIDED, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as validating or in any manner legalizing any Territorial, county, municipal, or other bonds, obligations, or evidences of indebtedness of this State or the counties or municipalities thereof which now are or may be invalid or illegal at the time this State is admitted, nor shall the legislature of this State pass any law in any manner validating or legalizing the same.

4. That the Legislature of this State shall make provision for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools which shall be open to all the children of this State and free from sectarian control; and that said schools shall always be conducted in English.

5. That this State shall never enact any laws restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and that ability to read, write, speak, and understand the English language sufficiently well to conduct the duties of the office without the aid of an interpreter shall be necessary qualification for all State officers and members of the State Legislature.

6. That the capital of this State shall, until changed by the electors voting at an election provided for by the Legislature of said State for the purpose, be at the city of Phoenix, but no election shall be called or provided for prior to the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

7. That there be and are reserved to the United States, with full acquiescence of this State, all rights and powers for the carrying out of the provisions by the United States of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts form the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, to the same extent as if this State had remained a Territory.

8. That whenever hereafter any of the lands contained within Indian reservations or allotment in said proposed State shall be allotted, sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed of, they shall be subject, for a period of twenty-five years after such allotment, sale, reservation, or other disposal, to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of liquor into the Indian country.

9. That this State and its people consent to all and singular the provision of this Act concerning the lands hereby granted or confirmed to this State, the terms and conditions upon which said grants and confirmations are made, and the means and manner of enforcing such terms and conditions all in every respect and particular as by Act of Congress provided.

The foregoing provisions shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this State.

• Proposition Number 19 - Federal Relations (introduced on 1910-10-21 14:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e934656) [This document] [view current proposal at this moment]
  • Motion to Read Proposition Number 19 a Second Time (introduced on 1910-10-21 14:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e934657) [view current proposal at this moment]
    • None (introduced on 1910-10-21 14:00:00 - ADOPT_PROPOSAL - e934658) [view current proposal at this moment]
  • None (introduced on 1910-10-21 14:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e934659) [view current proposal at this moment]