6 1 tution of the proposed State of New Columbia and for two 2 Senators and one Representative in Congress. 3 (2) In the first election of Senators from the State (pur 4 suant to paragraph (1)) the two senatorial offices shall be 5 separately identified and designated, and no person may be a 6 candidate for both offices. No such identification or designa 7 tion of either of the two senatorial offices shall refer to or be 8 taken to refer to the terms of such offices, or in any way 9 impair the privilege of the Senate to determine the class to 10 which each of the Senators elected shall be assigned. 11 (b) The proclamation of the Mayor of the District of Co 12 lumbia required by subsection (a) shall provide for the holding a 13 of a primary election and a general election and at such elec14 tions the officers required to be elected as provided in subsec 15 tion (a) shall be chosen by the people. Such elections shall be 16 held, and the qualifications of voters shall be, as prescribed 17 by the constitution of the proposed State of New Columbia 18 for the election of members of the proposed State legislature. 19 Election returns shall be made and certified in such manner 20 as the constitution of the proposed State of New Columbia 21 may prescribe. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall 22 certify the results of such elections to the President of the 23 United States. 24 (c)(1) At an election designated by proclamation of the 25 Mayor of the District of Columbia, which may be the primary HR 325 IN 7 1 or the general election held pursuant to subsection (b), a ter2 ritorial general election, or a special election, there shall be 3 submitted to the electors qualified to vote in such election, for 4 adoption or rejection, the following propositions: 5 (A) New Columbia shall immediately be admitted 7 (B) The boundaries of the State of New Columbia 8 shall be as prescribed in the New Columbia Admission 9 Act and all claims of the State to any areas of land or 10 sea outside the boundaries so prescribed are hereby ir 11 revocably relinquished to the United States. (C) All provisions of the New Columbia Admis 12 13 14 sion Act reserving rights or powers to the United 15 16 17 the State and its people. 18 (2) In the event the propositions under paragraph (1) are 19 adopted in such election by a majority of the legal votes cast 20 on such submission, the proposed constitution of the proposed 21 State of New Columbia, ratified by the people at the election 22 held on November 2, 1982, shall be deemed amended accord 23 ingly. (3) In the event any one of the propositions under para 24 25 graph (1) is not adopted at such election by a majority of the HR 325 IN 8 1 legal votes cast on such submission, the provisions of this Act 2 shall cease to be effective. 3 (4) The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized 4 and directed to take such action as may be necessary or ap 5 propriate to ensure the submission of such propositions to the 6 people. The return of the votes cast on such propositions 7 shall be made by the election officers directly to the Board of 8 Elections of the District of Columbia, which shall certify the 9 results of the submission to the Mayor. The Mayor shall cer 10 tify the results of such submission to the President of the 11 United States. 12 (d)(1) If the President finds that the propositions set 13 forth in subsection (c)(1) have been duly adopted by the 14 people of New Columbia, the President, upon certification of 15 the returns of the election of the officers required to be elect16 ed as provided in subsection (a), shall issue a proclamation 17 announcing the results of such election as so ascertained. 18 Upon the issuance of such proclamation by the President, the 19 State of New Columbia shall be deemed admitted into the 20 Union as provided in section 2 of this Act. 21 (2) Until the State of New Columbia is admitted into the 22 Union, individuals holding legislative, executive, and judicial 23 offices of the District of Columbia, including the Delegate in 24 Congress from the District of Columbia, shall continue to dis25 charge the duties of their respective offices. Upon the issu HR 325 IN 9 1 ance of such proclamation by the President of the United 2 States and the admission of the State of New Columbia into 3 the Union, the officers elected at such election, and qualified 4 under the provisions of the constitution and laws of such 5 State, shall proceed to exercise all the functions pertaining to 6 their offices in, under, or by authority of the government of 7 such State, and offices not required to be elected at such 8 initial election shall be selected or continued in office as pro 9 vided by the constitution and laws of such State. The Gover 10 nor of such State shall certify the election of the Senators 11 and Representative in the manner required by law, and the 12 Senators and Representative shall be entitled to be admitted 13 to seats in Congress and to all the rights and privileges of 14 Senators and Representatives of other States in the Congress 15 of the United States. 16 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERSHIP 17 SEC. 8. The State of New Columbia upon its admission 18 into the Union shall be entitled to one Representative until 19 the taking effect of the next reapportionment, and such Rep20 resentative shall be in addition to the membership of the 21 House of Representatives as now prescribed by law, except 22 that such temporary increase in the membership shall not 23 operate to either increase or decrease the permanent mem24 bership of the House of Representatives or affect the basis of 25 apportionment for the Congress. 2 Sec. 9. Upon admission of the State of New Columbia 3 into the Union, all of the territorial laws then in force in the 4 Territory of the District of Columbia shall be and continue in 5 force and effect throughout the State, except as modified or 6 changed by this Act, or by the Constitution of the State, or 7 as thereafter modified or changed by the legislature of the 8 State. All of the laws of the United States shall have the 9 same force and effect within the State as elsewhere in the 12 SEC. 10. (a) No writ, action, indictment, cause, or pro 13 ceeding pending in any court of the District of Columbia or in 14 the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 15 shall abate by reason of the admission of the State of New 16 Columbia into the Union, but shall be transferred and shall 17 proceed within such appropriate State courts as shall be es 18 tablished under the constitution of the State, or shall continue 19 in the United States District Court for the District of Colum 20 bia, as the nature of the case may require. And no writ, 21 action, indictment, cause, or proceeding shall abate by reason 22 of any change in the courts, but shall proceed within the 23 State or United States courts according to the laws thereof, 24 respectively. The appropriate State courts shall be the suc 25 cessors of the courts of the District of Columbia as to all 26 cases arising within the limits embraced within the jurisdic NR 325 15 |
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