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Show 31 And said convention shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of said State- First. That *** the sale, barter, or giving of intoxicating liquors to Indians and the introduction of liquors into Indian country, which term shall also include all lands now owned or occupied by the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, are forever prohibited. Second. That the people inhabiting said proposed State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title *** to all lands lying within said boundaries owned or held by an Indian or Indian tribes the right or title to which shall have been acquired through or from the United States or any prior sovereignty, and that until the title of such Indian or Indian tribes shall have been extinguished the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition and under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United States; *** but nothing herein, or in the ordinance herein provided for, shall preclude the said State from taxing, as other lands and other property are taxed, any lands and other property outside of an Indian reservation owned or held by any Indian, save and except such lands as have been granted or acquired as aforesaid or as may be granted or confirmed to any Indian or Indians under any Act of Congress, but said ordinance shall provide that all such lands shall be exempt from taxation by said State so long and to such extent as Congress has prescribed or may hereafter prescribe. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Eighth. That whenever hereafter any of the lands contained within Indian reservations or allotments in said proposed 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 all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of liquor into the Indian country; and the terms 'Indian' and "Indian country' shall include the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and the lands now owned or occupied by them (Act of June 20, 1910, 36 Stat., 557). It seems to us now, looking back from our present vantage pbint, that the United States was willing to allow the territorial government of New Mexico to experiment with legislation for the Pueblos while it was under the direct control of the Federal Government. |