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capital of said Territory, on the twentieth day of December, A. D. 1875, does ordain and declare:

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.

Second-That the people inhabiting the Territory of Colorado, by their representatives in said Convention assembled, do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unapppropriated public lands lying within said Territory, and that the same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposal of the United States; that the lands belonging to cittzens of the United States residing without 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.

Third-That this ordinance shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of the State of Colorado.

Be it RemembeRED, That in the convention of the representatives of the people of the Territory of Colorado, chosen in pursuance of the act of congress of the United States, entitled, "An act 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," approved March 3d, A. D. 1875, and assembled at the seat of government of said Territory, in pursuance of said act, on the twentieth day of December, A. D. 1875, after the organization of said convention, and before proceeding to other business, it was, on the twenty-second day of December, A. D. 1875,

Resolved, That in pursuance of the enabling act, and in behalf of the people of Colorado, we, in convention assembled, do adopt the constitution of the United States.

UNITED STATEs of America,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

I certify, that hereto annexed is a true copy of a proclamation made by the president of the United States on the first of August, 1876,

declaring that the admission of the State of Colorado into the Union is now complete.

SEAL

In Testimony Whereof, I, JOHN L. CADWALADER, acting secretary of state of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the department of state to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of August, A. D. 1876, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and first.

JOHN L. CADWALADER.

By the President of the United States of America.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, The congress of the United States did, by an act approved on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, authorize the inhabitants of the Territory of Colorado to form for themselves out of said Territory, a State government, with the name of the State of Colorado, and for the admission of such State into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States, upon certain conditions in said act specified. And,

WHEREAS, It was provided by said act of Congress that the convention elected by the people of said Territory to frame a State constitution should, when assembled for that purpose and after organization, declare on behalf of the people that they adopt the constitution of the United States, and should also provide by an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of said State, that perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and that no inhabitant of said State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship, and that the people inhabiting said Territory do agree and declare that they forever 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. And,

WHEREAS, It was further provided by said act that the constitution thus formed for the people of the Territory of Colorado should, by an ordinance of the convention forming the same, be submitted to the peo

ple of said Territory for ratification or rejection at an election to be held in the month of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, at which election the lawful voters of said new State should vote directly for or against the proposed constitution, and the returns of said election. should 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, should canvass the same, and if a majority of legal votes should be cast for said constitution in said proposed State, the said acting governor should certify the same to the president of the United States, together with a copy of said constitution and ordinances; whereupon it should 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. And,

WHEREAS, It has been certified to me by the acting governor of said Territory of Colorado, that within the time prescribed by said act of congress, a constitution for said proposed State has been adopted, and the same ratified by a majority of the legal voters of said proposed new State, in accordance with the conditions prescribed by said act of congress. And,

WHEREAS, A duly authenticated copy of said constitution and of the declaration and ordinance required by said act has been received by me.

Now, Therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, president of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the act of congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact that the fundamental conditions imposed by congress on the State of Colorado to entitle that State to admission to the Union have been ratified and accepted, and that the admission of the said State into the Union is now complete. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and first.

SEAL

By the President.

HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.

U. S. GRANT.

GENERAL LAWS

OF THE

STATE OF COLORADO.

CHAPTER I.

ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.

[Session Laws, 1876.]

to be recorded.

1. SECTION I. If any person in this state shall desire Lawful to adopt to adopt any child or children, as his or her heir, it shall child by Deed, be lawful for such person to do the same by deed, which deed shall be executed, acknowledged and recorded in the county of the residence of the person executing the same, as in the case of conveyance of real estate.

capable of

2. SEC. 2. A married woman, by joining in the deed Married woman of adoption with her husband, shall, with her husband, be adopting. capable of adopting any child or children.

Rights of child

sons adopting.

3. SEC. 3. From the time of filing the deed with the recorder, the child or children adopted shall have the same ren against perright against the person or persons executing the same for support and maintenance, and for proper and humane treatment, as a child has by law against lawful parents; and such adopted child shall have in all respects, and enjoy all such other rights and privileges, including the rights of Rights of inheritance, as against the persons executing the deed of" adoption, as a child by law has against lawful parents.

inheritance.

name of child adopted, upon

4. SEC. 4. In all cases contemplated by the provisions Courts shall have of this act, the district or county court of the proper county power to change shall have power, in its discretion, to change the name of petition. any child adopted, as herein provided, and by order to that effect, recorded in the record of its proceedings, and this may be done upon a petition filed for that purpose by the person or persons adopting such child.

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