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If a proposed constitution, duly ratified by the people of Hawaii, has been approved by the Congress, and the President shall find that the propositions set forth in this section have been duly adopted by the people of Hawaii, the President, upon certification of the returns of the election of the officers required to be elected as provided in section 4. shall thereupon issue his proclamation anBouncing the results of said election as so ascertained. Upon the issuance of said proclamation by the President of the United States, the proposed State of Hawaii shall be deemed admitted by Congress into the Union by virtue of this Act on an equal footing with the other States.

Until the said State is so admitted into the Union, the persons holding legisiative, executive, and judicial offices in or under or by authority of the government of said Territory, and the Delegate in Congress thereof, shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices. Upon the issuance of said proclamation by the President of the United States and the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union, the officers elected at said election, and qualified under the provisions of the constitution and laws of said State, shall proceed to exercise all the functions pertaining to their offices in or under or by authority of the government of said State, and officers not required to be elected at said initial election shall be selected or continued in office as provided by the constitution and laws of said State. The Governor of said State shall certify the election of the Senators and Representatives in the manner required by law, and the said Senators and Representatives shall be entitled to be admitted to seats in Congress and to all the rights and privileges of Senators and Representatives of other States in the Congress of the United States.

SEC. 106. The State of Hawaii upon its admission into the Union shall be entitled to two Representatives until the taking effect of the next reapportionent, and such Representatives shall be in addition to the membership of the House of Representatives as now prescribed by law: Provided, That such temporary increase in the membership of the House of Representatives shall not affect the basis of apportionment established by the Act of November 15, 1941 (55 Stat. 761; 2 U. S. C., sec. 2a), for the Eighty-third Congress and each Congress thereafter.

SEC. 107. Effective upon the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union(a) the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii established by and existing under title 28 of the United States Code shall thenceforth be a court of the United States with judicial power derived from article III, section 1, of the Constitution of the United States: Provided, however, That the terms of office of the district judges for the District of Hawaii then in office shall terminate upon the effective date of this section and the President, pursuant to sections 133 and 134 of title 28, United States Code, as amended by this Act, shall appoint. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, two district judges for the said district who shall hold office during good behavior;

(b) the last paragraph of sections 133 of title 28, United States Code, is repealed; and

(c) subsection (a) of section 134 of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The district judges, except in Puerto Rico, shall hold office during good ehavior. The district judge in Puerto Rico shall hold office for the term of eight years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified."

NEC. 108. Effective upon the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union the second paragraph of section 451 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking out the words “including the district courts of the United States for e districts of Hawaii and Puerto Rico," and inserting in lieu thereof the words luding the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico,". SEC. 109. Effective upon admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union(a) the last paragraph of section 501 of title 28, United States Code, is repealed;

(b) the first sentence of subsection (a) of section 504 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking out at the end thereof the words ", except in the district of Hawaii, where the term shall be six years";

(e) the first sentence of subsection (c) of section 541 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking out at the end thereof the words ", except in the district of Hawaii where the term shall be six years"; and (d) subsection (d) of section 541 of title 28, United States Code, is repealed. SEC. 110. No action, case, proceeding, or matter pending in any court of the Territory of Hawaii or in the United States District Court for the District of

Hawaii shall abate by reason of the admission of said State into the Union but the same shall be transferred to and proceeded with in such appropriate State courts as shall be established under the constitution of said State, or shall continue in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, as the nature of the case may require. And no indictment, action or proceedings shall abate by reason of any change in the courts, but shall be proceeded with in the State of United States courts according to the laws thereof, respectively. And the appropriate State court shall be the successors of the courts of the Territory as to all cases arising within the limits embraced within the jurisdiction of such courts, respectively, with full power to proceed with the same, and award mesne or final process therein, and all the files, records, indictments, and proceedings relating to any such cases shall be transferred to such appropriate State courts and the same shall be proceeded with therein in due course of law.

All civil causes of action and all criminal offenses which shall have arisen oi been committed prior to the admission of said State, but as to which no suit action, or prosecution shall be pending at the date of such admission, shall be subject to prosecution in the appropriate State courts or in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii in like manner, to the same extent, and with like right of appellate review, as if said State had been created and said State courts had been established prior to the accrual of such causes of action or the commission of such offenses. The admission of said State shall effect no change in the substantive or criminal law governing such causes of action and criminal offenses which shall have arisen or been committed; and such of said criminal offenses as shall have been committed against the laws of the Territory shall be tried and punished by the appropriate courts of said State, and such as shall have been committed against the laws of the United States shall be tried and punished in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. SEC. 111. Parties shall have the same rights of appeal from and appellate review of final decisions of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii or the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii in any case finally decided prior to admission of said State into the Union, whether or not an appeal therefrom shall have been perfected prior to such admission, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States shall have the same jurisdiction therein, as by law provided prior to admission of said State into the Union, and any mandate issued subsequent to the admission of said State shall be to the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii or a court of the State, as may be appropriate. Parties shall have the same rights of appeal from and appellate review of all orders, judgments and decrees of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and of the the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii as successor to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii, in any case pending at the time of admission of said State into the Union, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States shall have the same jurisdiction therein, as by law provided in any case arising subsequent to the admission of said State into the Union.

SEC. 112. Effective upon the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union(a) title 28, United States Code, section 1252, is amended by striking out "Hawaii" from the clause relating to courts of record;

(b) title 28, United States Code, section 1293, is amended by striking out the words "First and Ninth Circuits" and by inserting in lieu thereof "First Circuit", and by striking out the words, "supreme courts of Puerto Rico and Hawaii, respectively" and inserting in lieu thereof "supreme court of Puerto Rico";

(c) title 28, United States Code, section 1294, is amended by striking out paragraph (5) thereof and by renumbering paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs (5) and (6) respectively;

(d) the first paragraph of section 373 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking out the words "United States District Courts for the districts of Hawaii or Puerto Rico," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico,”; and by striking out the words "and any justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii": Provided, That the amendments made by this subsection shall not affect the rights of any judge or justice who may have retired before the effective date of this subsection: And provided further, That service as a judge of the District Court for the Territory of Hawaii or as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii or as a

justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii or as a judge of the circuit courts of the Territory of Hawaii shall be included in computing under section 371, 372, or 373 of title 28, United States Code, the aggregate years of judicial service of any person who is in commission as a district judge for the District of Hawaii on the date of enactment of this Act;

(e) section 92 of the Act of April 30, 1900 (ch. 339, 31 Stat. 159), as amended, and the Act of May 29, 1928 (ch. 904, 45 Stat. 997), are repealed; (f) section 86 of the Act approved April 30, 1900 (ch. 339, 31 Stat. 158), as amended, is repealed;

(g) section 3771 of title 18, United States Code, as heretofore amended, is further amended by striking out from the first paragraph of such section the words "Supreme Courts of Hawaii and Puerto Rico" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Supreme Court of Puerto Rico"; and

(h) section 3772 of title 18, United States Code, as heretofore amended, is further amended by striking out from the first paragraph of such section the words "Supreme Courts of Hawaii and Puerto Rico" and inserting in lien thereof the words "Supreme Court of Puerto Rico". NEC. 113. All Territorial laws in force in the Territory of Hawaii at the time of its admission into the Union shall continue in force in the State of Hawaii, Dept as modified or changed by this Act or by the constitution of the State, and shall be subject to repeal or amendment by the Legislature of the State of Hawaii, except as hereinbefore provided with respect to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended; and the laws of the United States shall have the same force and effect within the said State as elsewhere within the United States.

SEC. 114. (a) Notwithstanding the admission of the State of Hawaii into The Union, the United States shall continue to have sole and exclusive jurisdiction ver the area which may then or thereafter be included in Hawaii National Park, saving, however, to the State of Hawaii the same rights as are reserved the Territory of Hawaii by section 1 of the Act of April 19, 1930 (46 Stat. 7), and saving, further, to persons then or thereafter residing within such the right to vote at all elections held within the political subdivisions where they respectively reside. Upon the admission of said State all references to the Territory of Hawaii in said Act or in other laws relating to Hawaii National Park shall be deemed to refer to the State of Hawaii. Nothing contained in this At shall be construed to affect the ownership and control by the United States d any lands or other property within Hawaii National Park which may now belong to, or which may hereafter he acquired by, the United States.

(b) Notwithstanding the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union, anthority is reserved in the United States, subject to the proviso hereinafter set forth, for the exercise by the Congress of the United States of the power of exclusive legislation, as provided by article I, section 8, clause 17, of the nstitution of the United States, in all cases whatsoever over such tracts or parcels of land as, immediately prior to the admission of said State, are owned by the United States and held for military, naval, Air Force, or Coast Guard rposes, whether such lands were acquired by cession and transfer to the fited States by the Republic of Hawaii and set aside by Act of Congress or by Executive order or proclamation of the President or the Governor of Hawaii fr the use of the United States, or were acquired by the United States by rchase, condemnation, donation, exchange, or otherwise: Provided, (i) That the State of Hawaii shall always have the right to serve civil or criminal process thin the said tracts or parcels of land in suits or prosecutions for or on aunt of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed within the sid State but outside of the said tracts or parcels of land; (ii) that the reservaIn of authority in the United States for the exercise by the Congress of the nited States of the power of exclusive legislation over the lands aforesaid shall st operate to prevent such lands from being a part of the State of Hawaii, or to Event the said State from exercising over or upon such lands, concurrently th the United States, any jurisdiction whatsoever which it would have in the absence of such reservation of authority and which is consistent with the hereafter enacted by the Congress pursuant to such reservation of authorand (iii) that such power of exclusive legislation shall vest and remain the United States only so long as the particular tract or parcel of land volved is owned by the United States and used for military, naval, Air Force, or Coast Guard purposes.

SEC. 115. The first paragraph of section 2 of the Federal Reserve Act (38 at 251) is amended by striking out the last sentence thereof and inserting in

lieu of such sentence the following: "When any State is hereafter admitted to the Union the Federal Reserve districts shall be readjusted by the Board o Governors of the Federal Reserve System in such manner as to include sucł State. Every national bank in any State shall, upon commencing business o within ninety days after admission into the Union of the State in which it is located, become a member bank of the Federal Reserve System by subscribing and paying for stock in the Federal Reserve bank of its district in accordance with the provisions of this Act and shall thereupon be an insured bank under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and failure to do so shall subject such bank to the penalty provided by the sixth paragraph of this section."

SEC. 116. Nothing contained in this or any other Act shall be construed as depriving the Federal Maritime Board of the exclusive jurisdiction heretofore conferred on it over common carriers engaged in transportation by water be tween any port in the State of Hawaii and other ports in the United States, its Territories, or possessions, or as conferring on the Interstate Commerce Com mission jurisdiction over transportation by water between any such ports.

SEC. 117. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act whether passed by the legislature of said Territory or by Congress are hereby repealed.

TITLE II

SEC. 201. The citizens of the United States who are bona fide residents of that part of the United States now constituting the Territory of Alaska are hereby authorized to form for themselves a constitution and State government, with the name "State of Alaska", which State, when so formed, shall be admitted into the Union, all as hereinafter provided.

The State of Alaska shall consist of all the territory, together with the territorial waters appurtenant thereto, now included in the Territory of Alaska. SEC. 202. All citizens of the United States who are qualified to vote for representatives of the Territorial Legislature of Alaska are hereby authorized to vote for and choose delegates, having the same qualifications, to form a constitutional convention in said Territory. The convention shall consist of twentyseven delegates apportioned among the several judicial divisions of Alaska as follows: First judicial division, six delegates; second judicial division, three delegates; third judicial division, ten delegates; fourth judicial division, five delegates; and three delegates to be chosen at large from the entire Territory. The Governor of Alaska shall, within thirty days after the approval of this Act, issue a proclamation ordering an election of such delegates to be held at a time designated in the proclamation within eight months after the approval of this Act. The proclamation shall be issued at least two months prior to the date of election of such delegates. The election shall be conducted without reference to the political affiliations of the candidates. The ballots used at such election shall be nonpartisan and shall not contain any reference to or designation of the political party or affiliation of any candidate. A separate ballot shall be prepared for each judicial division. Each such ballot shall contain (1) the names of the candidates running for the office of delegate from such division and (2) the names of the candidates running for the office of delegate at large to the convention.

The six candidates in the first judicial division who receive the greatest number of votes shall be the delegates for such division; the three candidates in the second judicial division who receive the greatest number of votes shall be the delegates for such division; the ten candidates in the third judicial division who receive the greatest number of votes shall be the delegates for such division the five candidates in the fourth judicial division who receive the greatest num ber of votes shall be the delegates for such division; and the three candidates who receive the greatest number of votes at large from the entire Territory shall be delegates at large.

In case of a tie vote at the election, the candidates so tied shall draw lots under the supervision of the clerk of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska to determine which of them shall be elected.

In case of a vacancy in any office of delegate the candidate not theretofore certified who receives the next highest number of votes in the judicial division in which the vacancy occurs or the next highest number of votes in the Territory at large, as the case may be, shall become the delegate from such judicial division or from the Territory at large, as the case may be.

Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the election for such delegates shall be conducted, the returns made, the results ascertained, and the ertificates of persons elected to such convention issued in the same manner as is prescribed by the laws of Alaska regulating elections therein of members of The Territorial Legislature of Alaska.

Sec. 2013. The delegates to the convention so elected shall meet at the capital of said Territory on the first Tuesday following the thirtieth day after their Pretion, unless that date should occur during a session of the Territorial Legislature, in which event the constitutional convention shall convene on the irst Tuesday following adjournment of the legislative session. The session shall et exceed seventy-five days, and after organization the delegates thereto shall lare on behalf of the people of the proposed State that they adopt the Consitution of the United States, whereupon the said convention shall form a conTution and State government for the proposed State.

The constitution shall be republican in form, shall make no distinction in vil or political rights on account of race or color, shall not be repugnant to the Costitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Indeadence, and shall provide that no person who advocates, or who aids or bes to any party, organization, or association which advocates, the overthrow ** force or violence of the Government of the State of Alaska or of the United ses shall be qualified to hold any public office of trust or profit under the Nate constitution. Said convention shall provide in said constitution:

First. That no law shall be enacted respecting an establishment of religion or hibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the es, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the govment for the redress of grievances.

Second. That said State and its people do agree and declare that they forever laim all right and title to any lands or other property not granted or conred to the State or its political subdivisions by or under the authority of this art, the right or title to which is held by the United States or is subject to disstion by the United States, and to any lands or other property (including >hing rights), the right or title to which may be held by any Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts (hereinafter called natives) or is held by the United States in trust I said natives; that all such lands or other property, belonging to the United ates or which may belong to said natives, shall be and remain under the absojurisdiction and control of the United States until disposed of under its hority, except to such extent as the Congress has prescribed or may hereafter scribe, and except when held by individual natives in fee without restrictions alienation; and that no taxes shall be imposed by said State upon any lands or her property now owned or hereafter acquired by the United States or which, bereinabove set forth, may belong to said natives, except to such extent as e Congress has prescribed or may hereafter prescribe, and except when held individual natives in fee without restrictions on alienation.

Third. That the debts and liabilities of said Territory of Alaska shall be ased and paid by said State and all debts owed to said Territory of Alaska 1 be collected by said State.

Fourth. That provision shall be made for the establishment and maintenance fa system of public schools which shall be open to all children of said State free from sectarian control.

Fifth. That all provisions of this Act reserving rights or powers to the United Mates, as well as those prescribing the terms or conditions of the grants of lands her property herein made to said State, are consented to fully by said State 24 its people.

Sixth. That the lands and other property belonging to citizens of the United es residing without said State shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the ds and other property belonging to residents thereof.

Sec. 204. The State of Alaska and its political subdivisions, respectively, shall e and retain title to all property, real and personal, title to which is in the tory of Alaska or any of the subdivisions. Except as provided in section 5 reof, the United States shall retain title to all property, real and personal, to th it has title, including public lands.

SEC. 205. (a) For the purpose of furthering the development of and expanof communities, the State of Alaska is hereby granted and shall be entitled leet from lands within national forests in Alaska which are vacant and ppropriated at the time of their selection not to exceed four hundred thoudacres of land, and from the other public lands of the United States in