The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-10-03
Constitutional Amendments,

The following proposed amendments
to the Constitution of North Dakota,
having passed the Seventh Legislative
Assembly, will be submitted to the
Eighth Legislative Assembly for approx
al or rejection:
Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
That subdivision 8, of Section 215, of
the Constitution of the State of North
Dakota be amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
Subdivision s. A state hospital for the
insane al the City of Jamestown, in the
county of otutsman. And the legislative
assembly SHALL appropriate twenty
thousand acres ofthe grant oflands made
by the act Of Congress aforesaid for
"Olher Educational and Charitable
Institutions" to the benefit and for the
endowment of said institution, and there
shall be located at or near the City Of
Grafton, in the country of Walsh, an
institution for feeble minded, on the
grounds purchased by the Secretary of
the Interior for penitentiary building.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment,
That Section 176 Of the Constitution of
the State of North Dakota be amended,
by adding theretosand making part there
of, the following clause:
! The Legislative assembly maya further
provide that grain grown within the state
and held therein in elevators. warehouses
and granaries may be taxed at fixed
rate.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
Subdivision five, Section two hundred
and fifteen (2l5), of Article nineteen 10y
of the Constitution of the State of North
Dakota, is amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
Fifth. The school for the deaf and
dumb Of North Dakota, at the city of
Devils. Lake, in the county of Ramsey.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment,
l. Section 158 of the Constitution
of the State of North Dakota is amended
to read as follows:
8 1853. No lands, other than those
granted for the use and benefits of the
common schools, shall be sold for less
than appraised value, and in no case
for less than $500 per acre. The pur-
chaser shall pay one-ffth of the price
in cash, and the remaining four-ffths
at the option of the purchaser, in not
more than twenty years, with interest
at the rate of not less than six per
centum, payable annually in advance.
All sales shall be held at the county
seat of the county in which the land to
be sold is situated, and shall be at
public auction and to the highest
bidder, after sixty days advertisement
OF the same, in newspaper of general
circulation in the vicinity of the lands
to be sold, and one at the seat OF gov.
eminent. Such lands as shall not have
been specifically subdivided shall be
offered in tracts Of one.quarter section,
and those SO subdivided in the smalles,
subdivisions. All lands designated
for sale and not sold withen two wears
after appraisal, shall be reappralsec
before they are sold. No grant Of
patent for any such lands shall issue
until payment is made for the same
provided, that the lands contracted t.
be sold by the state shall be subject t.
taxation from the date of such con
tract. In case the taxes assessed
against any Of said lands for any yea
remains unpaid until the first Monda,
in October Of the following year, the,
and thereupon the contract Of sale fo
! such lands shall become null and void
provided, further, that Sections 1e an,
SO, OF any indemnity lands selected il
lieu Of losses thereof appropriated 70
q the common schools Of the state sha
not Be sold for less than 30 per acre.
r. PORTER,
ssi8 Secretary of State.