Bolivia, seeing that it has been dictated by those duties of hospitality which should be dispensed by nations friendly to each other. Let it be printed, circulated, and communicated to the commanders of the ports, accompanied by the proper instructions. Given in the city of Gracias, September 12, 1866. JOSÉ MARIA MEDINA. JOSÉ MARIA CISNEROS, Minister for Foreign Affairs. ACT of Congress of the United States, to enable the People of Colorado to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of the said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. [Chapter 139.] [March 3, 1875.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the inhabitants of the territory of Colorado included in the boundaries hereinafter designated be, and they are hereby, authorized to form for themselves, out of said territory, a State Government, with the name of the State of Colorado; which State, when formed, shali be admitted into the Union upon an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatsoever, as hereinafter provided. § 2. That the said State of Colorado shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: commencing on the 37th parallel of north latitude where the 25th meridian of longitude west from Washington crosses the same; thence north, on said meridian, to the 41st parallel of north latitude; thence along said parallel west to the 32nd meridian of longitude west from Washington; thence south on said meridian to the 37th parallel of north latitude; thence along said 37th parallel of north latitude to the place of beginning. § 3. That all persons qualified by law to vote for Representatives to the General Assembly of said territory, at the date of the passage of this Act, shall be qualified to be elected, and they are hereby authorized to vote for and choose Representatives to form a Convention under such rules and regulations as the Governor of said territory, the Chief Justice, and the United States' Attorney thereof may prescribe; and also to vote upon the acceptance or rejection of such Constitution as may be formed by said Convention, under such rules and regulations as said Convention may prescribe; and the aforesaid Representatives to form the aforesaid Convention shall * Amended by Act of Congress of March 3, 1876. be apportioned among the several counties in said territory in proportion to the vote polled in each of said counties at the last general election as near as may be; and said apportionment shall be made for said territory by the Governor, United States' District Attorney, and Chief Justice thereof, or any two of them; and the Governor of said territory shall, by Proclamation, order an election of the Repre sentatives aforesaid to be held throughout the territory at such time as shall be fixed by the Governor, Chief Justice, and United States' Attorney, or any two of them, which Proclamation shall be issued within 90 days next after the 1st day of September, 1875, and at least 30 days prior to the time of said election; and such election shall be conducted in the same manner as is prescribed by the laws of said territory regulating elections therein for members of the House of Representatives; and the number of members to said Convention shall be the same as now constitutes both branches of the Legislature of the aforesaid territory. § 4. That the members of the Convention thus elected shall meet at the capital of said territory, on a day to be fixed by said Governor, Chief Justice, and United States' Attorney, not more than 60 days subsequent to the day of election, which time of meeting shall be contained in the aforesaid Proclamation mentioned in the third section of this Act, and, after organization, shall declare, on behalf of the people of said territory, that they adopt the Constitution of the United States; whereupon the said Convention shall be, and is hereby, authorized to form a Constitution and State Government for said territory: Provided, that the Constitution shall be Republican in form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or colour, except Indians not taxed, and not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence: and provided further, that said Convention shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of said State, first, that perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and no inhabitant of said State shall ever be molested, in person or property, on account of his or her mode of religious worship; secondly, that the people inhabiting said territory do agree and declare that they for ever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within said territory, and that the same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition of the United States, and that the lands belonging to citizens of the United States residing without the said State shall never be taxed higher than the lands belonging to residents thereof, and that no taxes shall be imposed by the State on lands or property therein belonging to, or which may hereafter be purchased by, the United States. § 5. That in case the Constitution and State Government shall be formed for the people of said territory of Colorado, in compliance with the provisions of this Act, said Convention forming the same shall provide, by Ordinance, for submitting said Constitution to the people of said State for their ratification or rejection, at an election, to be held at such time, in the month of July 1876, and at such places and under such regulations, as may be prescribed by said Convention, at which election the lawful voters of said new State shall vote directly for or against the proposed Constitution; and the returns of said election shall be made to the Acting Governor of the territory, who, with the Chief Justice and United States' Attorney of said territory, or any two of them, shall canvass the same; and if a majority of legal votes shall be cast for said Constitution in said proposed State, the said Acting Governor shall certify the same to the President of the United States, together with a copy of said. Constitution and Ordinances; whereupon it shall be the duty of the President of the United States to issue his Proclamation declaring the State admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, without any further action whatever on the part of Congress. § 6. That until the next general census said State shall be entitled to one Representative in the House of Representatives of the United States, which Representative, together with the Governor and State and other officers provided for in the said Constitution, shall be elected on a day subsequent to the adoption of the Constitution, and to be fixed by said Constitutional Convention; and until said State officers are elected and qualified under the provisions of the Constitution, the territorial officers shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices. § 7. That sections numbered 16 and 36 in every township, and where such sections have been sold or otherwise disposed of by any Act of Congress, other lands, equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions of not more than one quarter-section, and as contiguous as may be, are hereby granted to said State for the purpose of common schools. § 8. That, provided the State of Colorado shall be admitted into the Union in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Act, 50 entire sections of the unappropriated public lands within said. State, to be selected and located by direction of the Legislature thereof, and with the approval of the President, on or before the 1st day of January, 1878, shall be, and are hereby granted, in legal subdivisions of not less than one quarter-section, to said State for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the capital of said State for legislative and judicial purposes, in such manner as the Legislature shall prescribe. § 9. That 50 other entire sections of land as aforesaid, to be selected and located and with the approval as aforesaid, in legal subdivisions as aforesaid, shall be, and they are hereby, granted to said State for the purpose of erecting a suitable building for a penitentiary or State prison in the manner aforesaid. § 10. That 72 other sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the use and support of a State University, to be selected and approved in manner as aforesaid, and to be appropriated and applied as the Legislature of said State may prescribe for the purpose named and for no other purpose. § 11. That all salt-springs within said State, not exceeding 12 in number, with 6 sections of land adjoining and as contiguous as may be to each, shall be granted to said State for its use, the said land to be selected by the Governor of said State within two years after the admission of the State, and when so selected to be used and disposed of on such terms, conditions, and regulations as the Legislature shall direct: Provided, that no salt-spring or lands the right whereof is now vested in any individual or individuals, or which hereafter shall be confirmed or adjudged to any individual or individuals, shall by this Act be granted to said State. § 12. That 5 per cent. of the proceeds of the sales of agricultural public lands lying within said State which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said State for the purpose of making such internal improvements within said State as the Legislature thereof may direct: Provided, that this section shall not apply to any lands disposed of under the homestead-laws of the United States, or to any lands now or hereafter reserved for public or other uses. § 13.* That any balance of the appropriations for the legislative expenses of said territory of Colorado remaining unexpended shall be applied to and used for defraying the expenses of said Convention, and for the payment of the members thereof, under the same rules and regulations and rates as are now provided by law for the payment of the territorial Legislature. § 14. That the two sections of land in each township berein granted for the support of common schools shall be disposed of only at public sale, and at a price not less than 2 dollars and 50 cents per acre, the proceeds to constitute a permanent school fund, the interest of which to be expended in the support of common schools. § 15. That all mineral lands shall be excepted from the operation and grants of this Act. Approved March 3, 1875. * Amended by Act of Congress of March 3, 1876. PROCLAMATION of the President of the United States, declaring that the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, the Parliament of Canada, and the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island have passed Laws to carry into effect Articles XVIII to XXV and Article XXX of the Treaty of Washington of May 8, 1871.*—Washington, July 1, 1873. By the President of the United States of America. WHEREAS by Article XXXIII of a Treaty concluded at Washington on the 8th day of May, 1871, between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, it was provided that "Articles XVIII to XXV inclusive, and Article XXX of this Treaty, shall take effect as soon as the laws required to carry them into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on the other;" And whereas by the first section of an Act entitled "An Act to carry into effect the provisions of the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed in the city of Washington the 8th day of May, 1871, relating to the Fisheries," it is provided "that whenever the President of the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, the Parliament of Canada, and the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island, have passed laws on their part to give full effect to the provisions of the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed at the city of Washington on the 8th day of May, 1871, as contained in Articles XVIII to XXV inclusive, and Article XXX of said Treaty, he is hereby authorized to issue his Proclamation declaring that he has such evidence ; " And whereas the Secretary of State of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington have recorded in a Protocol a conference held by them at the Department of State in Washington, on the 7th day of June, 1873, in the following language: [Here follows the Protocol. See Vol. LXIII. Page 39.] Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the premises, do hereby declare that I have received satisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, the Parliament of Canada, and the Legisla * Vol. LXI. Page 40. + Vol. LXIII. Page 34. |