State Ex Rel. Witt v. State Canvassing Board

OPINION

MOISE, Justice.

Pursuant to authority of an Enabling Act of Congress, 1 during fifty days in the year 1910 commencing on October 3rd, one hundred duly elected delegates to a constitutional convention composed and adopted a draft constitution for submission to the qualified voters of New Mexico.

As adopted by the convention the following provisions pertinent to this litigation were contained therein:

“ARTICLE VII

“Section 1. Every male citizen of the United States, who is over the age of twenty-one years, and has resided in New Mexico twelve months, in the county ninety days, and in the…