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  1. Overview: Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition]
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  4. Session: 1910-10-27 14:00:00
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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition]

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Session 15925: 1910-10-27 14:00:00

The Convention considers Propositions Number 117 to 120, which are read the first time and referred to the Committee on Printing.

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Proposition Number 119 - Ordinance

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A PROPOSITION

No. 119.

Introduced by The Ordinance Committee, Morris Goldwater Yavapai County, Chairman

A Proposition Relative to Ordinance

IT IS HEREBY PROPOSED:

ARTICLE …….

ORDINANCE.

The following ordinance shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this State:

First. Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured to every inhabitant of this State, and no inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship or lack of the same.

Second. Polygamous or plural marriages, or polygamous cohabitation are forever prohibited within this State.

Third. The sale, barter, or giving of intoxicating liquors to Indians and the introduction of intoxicating liquors into Indian reservations are forever prohibited within this State.

Fourth. 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 owed or held by any Indian or Indian tribes, the right or 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 tribes 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.

Fifth. The lands and other property belonging to citizens of the United States who are, or may become, nonresidents of this State shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the lands and other property belonging to the residents thereof; and no taxes shall be imposed by this State upon lands or property situated in this State belonging to or which may hereafter be acquired by the United States or reserved for its use; but nothing herein shall preclude the 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 all such lands shall be exempt from taxation so long and to such extent as Congress has prescribed or may hereafter prescribe.

Sixth. The debts and liabilities of the Territory of Arizona, and the debts of the counties thereof, valid and subsisting at the time of the passage of the Enabling Act, approved by Congress, June 20, 1910, are hereby assumed and shall be paid by the State of Arizona, and the State of Arizona, shall, as to all such debts and liabilities, be subrogated to all the rights, including rights of indemnity and reimbursement, existing in favor of said Territory or of any of the several counties thereof, at the time of the passage of the said Enabling Act: Provided, that nothing in said Enabling Act nor in this ordinance, shall be construed as validating or in any manner legalizing any territorial, county, municipal, or other bonds, obligations or evidences of indebtedness of said Territory or the counties or municipalities thereof which now are or may be invalid or illegal at the time the said State of Arizona is admitted as a State, and the Legislature of the said State of Arizona shall never pass any law in any manner validating or legalizing the same.

Seventh. The Legislature shall suitably provide for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools which shall be open to all the children of the State and be free from sectarian control, and said schools shall be conducted in English.

Eighth. The legislature shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

The 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 a necessary qualification for all State, county, and municipal officers, and members of the State Legislature.

Ninth. The capital of the State of Arizona, until changed by the electors voting at an election provided for by the Legislature, shall 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.

Tenth. There are hereby reserved to the United States 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 from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation work for the reclamation of arid lands,” approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.

Eleventh. Whenever hereafter any of the lands contained within Indian reservations or allotments in this 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 lands of the United States prohibiting the introduction of liquor into Indian reservations.

Twelfth. The people of the State of Arizona hereby consent to all and singular the provisions of the Enabling Act, approved June 20, 1910, concerning the lands hereby granted or confirmed to the State, the terms and conditions upon which said grants and confirmation are made, and the means and manner of enforcing such terms and conditions, all in every respect and particular as in the aforesaid Enabling Act provided.

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