Volume 22 · 1
Public Law 47–3
to legalize the election of the Territorial legislature of New Mexico held November second, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.
Approved December 21, 1881
Statutory text
An Act
to legalize the election of the Territorial legislature of New Mexico held November second, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the election for members of the Territorial legislature of New Mexico held on the second day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty, is hereby declared valid, and that the legislature so elected is fully authorized to transact such business as belongs to the legislatures of any of the Territories, although not elected according to the provisions of the act of Congress approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight; and that all their acts shall be held to be as legal as if the provisions of said act of Congress had been complied with by the last legislature; and that it
Apportionment.
shall be the duty of the legislature of the said Territory to proceed at once on their assembling to apportion the representative and council districts provided for in the act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, according to the census of the population of eighteen hundred and eighty; and if such legislature shall fail to fuake such reapportionment, it shall be made in accordance with the provisions of an act providing for the reapportionment of the members of the
legislatures in the Territories of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, approved June third, eighteen hundred and eighty, which is hereby made
Proviso.
applicable to the Territory of New Mexico: Provided, The members constituting the board of apportionment shall assemble at the capital of such Territory and complete their work on or before the first Monday in September next.
Approved, December 21, 1881.