Article XXI — Compact with the United States
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N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 1 Religious Toleration; Polygamy
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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. Polygamous or plural marriages and polygamous cohabitation are forever prohibited.[1]
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 2 Control of Unappropriated or Indian Lands; Taxation of Federal Government, Nonresident and Indian Property
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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 owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes, t…
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 3 Assumption of Territorial Debts
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The debts and liabilities of the territory of New Mexico and the debts of the counties thereof, which were valid and subsisting on the twentieth day of June, nineteen hundred and ten, are hereby assumed and shall be paid by this state; and this state shall, as to all such debts a…
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 4 Public Schools
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Provision shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools which shall be open to all the children of the state and free from sectarian control, and said schools shall always be conducted in English.[1]
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 5 Suffrage
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This state shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.[1]
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 6 Capital
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The capital of this state shall, until changed by the electors voting at an election provided for by the legislature of this state for that purpose, be at the city of Santa Fe, but no such election shall be called or provided for prior to the thirty-first day of December, ninetee…
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 7 Reclamation Projects
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There are hereby reserved to the United States, with full acquiescence of the people of this state, 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…
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 8 Allotted Indian Lands Subject to Federal Liquor Control
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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 a…
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 9 Consent to Enabling Act Provisions
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This state and its people consent to all and singular the provisions of the said act of congress, approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning the lands by said act granted or confirmed to this state, the terms and conditions upon which said grants and confirmati…
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 10 Compact Irrevocable
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This ordinance is irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this state, and no change or abrogation of this ordinance, in whole or in part, shall be made by any constitutional amendment without the consent of congress.[1]
N.M. Const. art. XXI, § 11 Consent to Exchange of Lands
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This state and its people consent to the provisions of the act of congress, approved June 15, 1926, providing for such exchanges and the governor and other state officers mentioned in said act are hereby authorized to execute the necessary instrument or instruments to effect the …