New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties NM TERR LAWS JOINT RESOLUTION § 1. Conditions for admission

The territories of New Mexico and Arizona are hereby admitted into the union upon an equal footing with the original states, in accordance with the terms of an act entitled “An act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states; and to enable the people of Arizona to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states” commonly called the Enabling Act approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. The admission herein provided for shall take effect upon the proclamation of the president of the United States, when the conditions explicitly set forth in this joint resolution shall have been complied with, which proclamation shall issue at the earliest practicable time after the results of the election herein provided for shall have been certified to the president, and also after evidence shall have been submitted to him of the compliance with the terms and conditions of this resolution.

The president is authorized and directed to certify the adoption of this resolution to the governor of each territory as soon as practicable after the adoption hereof, and each of said governors shall issue his proclamation for the holding of the first general election as provided for in the constitution of New Mexico heretofore adopted and the election ordinance numbered two adopted by the constitutional convention of Arizona, respectively, and for the submission to a vote of the electors of said territories of the amendments of the constitutions of said proposed states, respectively, herein set forth in accordance with the terms and conditions of this joint resolution. The results of said elections shall be certified to the president by the governor of each of said territories; and if the terms and conditions of this joint resolution shall have been complied with, the proclamation shall immediately issue by the president announcing the result of said elections so ascertained, and upon the issuance of said proclamation the proposed state or states so complying shall be deemed admitted by congress into the union upon an equal footing with the other states.