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[73 Stat. 7]
PUBLIC LAW 86-000—MMMM. DD, 1959
[73 Stat. 7]

73

STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW

86-3-MAR.

18, 1959

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the two senatorial offices, however, shall refer to or be taken to refer to the term of that office, nor shall any such identification or designation in any way impair the privilege of the Senate to determine the class to which each of the Senators elected shall be assigned. SEC. 7. (a) The proclamation of the Governor of Hawaii required ^^l?^^^,^ etc°"^' by section 6 shall provide for the holding of a primary election and a general election and at such elections the officers required to be elected as provided in section 6 shall be chosen by the people. Such elections shall be held, and the qualifications of voters thereat shall be, as prescribed by the constitution of the proposed State of Hawaii for the election of members of the proposed State legislature. The returns thereof shall be made and certified in such manner as the constitution of the proposed State of Hawaii may prescribe. The Governor of Hawaii shall certify the results of said elections, as so ascertained, to the President of the United States. (b) A t an election designated by proclamation of the Governor of Hawaii, which may be either the primary or the general election held pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, or a Territorial general election, or a special election, there shall be submitted to the electors qualified to vote in said election, for adoption or rejection, the following propositions: •'(1) Shall Hawaii immediately be admitted into the Union as a State? "(2) The boundaries of the State of Hawaii shall be as prescribed in the Act of Congress approved , and all claims (Date of approval of this Act)

of this State to any areas of land or sea outside the boundaries so prescribed are hereby irrevocably relinquished to the United States. "(3) All provisions of the Act of Congress approved reserving rights or powers to (Date of approval of this Act)

the United States, as well as those prescribing the terms or conditions of the grants of lands or other property therein made to the State of Hawaii are consented to fully by said State and its people." In the event the foregoing propositions are adopted at said election by a majority of the legal votes cast on said submission, the proposed constitution of the proposed State of Hawaii, ratified by the people at the election held on November 7, 1950, shall be deemed amended as follows: Section 1 of article X III of said proposed constitution shall be deemed amended so as to contain the language of section 2 of this Act in lieu of any other language; article X I shall be deemed to include the provisions of section 4 of this Act; and section 8 of article X IV shall be deemed amended so as to contain the language of the third proposition above stated in lieu of any other language, and section 10 of article X VI shall be deemed amended by inserting the words "at which officers for all state elective offices provided for by this constitution and two Senators and one Representative in Congress shall be nominateci and elected" in lieu of the words "at which officers for all state elective offices provided for by this constitution shall be nominated and elected; but the officers so to be elected shall in any event include two Senators and two Representatives to the Congress, and unless and until otherwise required by law, said Representatives shall be elected at large". I n the event the foregoing propositions are not adopted at said election by a majority of the legal votes cast on said submission, the provisions of this Act shall cease to be effective. The Governor of Hawaii is hereby authorized and directed to take certification of such action as may be necessary or appropriate to insure the submis- GoVemor!'"^** ^^ sion of said propositions to the people. The return of the votes cast