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FUSTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. on. 32.35. isms. 269 election, so appointed, shall supervise the election in their respective precincts, and canvass and make due return of the vote cast, to the election commissioner for said district who shall deliver said returns, poll books, and ballots to said board, which shall constitute the ultimate and final canvassing board of said election, and they shall issue certificates of election to all persons elected to such convention from the various districts of the Indian Territory, and their certificates of election shall be prima facie evidence as to the election of delegates: Pm- d,§,j"“§£{,*f3g§;, ,2},, »z·idedfurthe*r·, That in said Indian Territory and Osage Indian Reser- Osage Reservation. vation, nominations for delegate to said constitutional convention may be made by convention, by the Republican, Democratic, and People’s Party, or by petition in the manner provided by the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma; and certificates and petitions of nomination in said Indian Territory shall be filed with the districting and canvassing board who shall erform the duties of election commissioner under said law, and shall)prepare, print, and distribute all ballots, poll books, and election Supplies necessary for the holding of said election under said laws. The capital of said State shall temporarily be at the city ,,,<{¤gig¤i M G¤¤·¤¢= of Guthrie, in the present Territory of Oklahoma and shall not be I ` changed therefrom previous to anno Domini nineteen hundred and thirteen, but said capital shall, after said year, be located by the electors of said State at an election to be provided for by the legislature: ]5·m,·ided, however, That the legislature of said State, except as B**“<“¤¤S“¤¤i*•*‘*- shall be necessary for the convenient transaction of the public business of said State at said capital, shall not appropriate any public moneys of the State for the erection of buildings for capitol purposes during such period. Sec. 3. That the delegates to the convention thus elected shall meet m§Q‘_°"““g "‘ °°“'°”‘ at the seat of government of said Oklahoma Territory on the second ` Tuesday after their election, excludi the day of election in case such day shall be Tuesday, but they sh:ldI not receive compensatioxi for more than sixty days of service, and, after organization, shall declare, Duties. on behalf of the people of said proposed State, that they adopt the Constitution of the United States; whereupon the said convention shall, and is hereby authorized to, form a constitution and State government for said proposed State. The constitution shall be republican gg;=;Q5¤;jy,;b,p,c_ in form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account " of race or color, and shall not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. _ And said convention shall provide in said constitution —·— P’°“‘““""‘· First. That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be se- R¤¤¤*<>¤¤ff¤¤·*·>¤··- cured, and that no inhabitant of said State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or_ber mode of religious wor— _ _ _ _ ship, and t at polygannous or plural marriages are forever prohibited. ,,§,{f"*""“’ "'“""* Second. That the manufacture, sale, barter, giving away, or other- g·_3,m,;;g,<*¤,m __, wise furnishing, except as hereinafter provided, of intoxicating liquors years in Indian Terdwithin those parts of said State now known as the Indian Territory """·°‘°· and the Osage Indian Reservation and within any other parts of said State which existed as Indian reservations on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and six, is prohibited for a period of twenty-one vears from the date of the admission of said State into the Union, and thereafter until the people of said State shall otherwise provide by amendment of said constitution and proper State legislation. Any *`°¤**">‘*°”“‘**·°'*‘· person, individual or corporate, who shall_ manufacture, sell, barter, give away, or otherwise furnish any intoxicating liquor of any kind, including beer. ale, and wine, contrary to the provisions of this section. or who shall, within the abovedescribed portions of said State, advertise for sale or solicit the purchase of any such liquors, or who shall ship or in any way convey such liquors from other parts of said Stateinto the portions hcreinbeforc described, shall be punished, on conviction thereof, by fine not less than fifty dollars an by imprisonment not