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Section 1. The State of Wyoming is an inseparable part of the Federal Union and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.

Sec. 2. Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and no inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship.

Sec. 3. The people inhabiting this State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes, and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States and that said Indian lands shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United States; that the lands belonging to the citizens of the United States residing without this State shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the lands belonging to the residents of this State; that no taxes shall be imposed by this State on lands or property therein, belonging to, or which may hereafter be purchased by the United States, or reserved for its use. But nothing in this article shall preclude this State from taxing as other lands are taxed, any lands owned or held by any Indian who has severed his tribal relations, and has obtained from the United States or from any person, a title thereto, by patent or other grant, save and except such lands as have been or may be granted to any Indian or Indians under any acts of Congress containing a provision exempting the lands thus granted from taxation, which last mentioned lands shall be exempt from taxation so long, and to such an extent, as is, or may be provided in the act of Congress granting the same.

Sec. 4. All debts and liabilities of the Territory of Wyoming shall be assumed and paid by this State.

Sec. 5. The Legislature shall make laws for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools which shall be open to all the children of the State and free from sectarian control.

Done in open convention, at the City of Cheyenne, in the Territory of Wyoming, this 30th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. JOHN K. JEFFREY,

Attest:

Secretary.

AN ACT GOVERNING

THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

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12. How tracks shall be paved. 13. United States pay half of all costs under article 5, except that done by railroad companies.

14. Paid on warrants of commissioners by the Secretary of the Treasury.

15. When the District to pave tracks of railroad companies. 16. Commissioners may issue certificates of indebtedness

against their property, etc.

17. If certificates are not paid property, to be sold.

18. Duties of railroad companies where tracks intersect.

19. Water and gas mains and pipes to be laid before streets are improved.

20. Washington Gas-light Company to care for its mains, etc. 21. Two subordinate engineers detailed from army by the President.

ARTICLE VI.

1. Metropolitan police board abolished.- Board of trustees of public schools abolished.

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