The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-10-17
Proposed Constitutional Amendment.

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 8. A state hospital for the
insane at the City OF Jamestown, in the
county of Stutsman. And the legislative
assembly shall appropriate twenty
thousand acres ofthe grant of lands made
by the act OF Congress aforesaid tor
"Other Educational and Charitable
Institutions" to the benefit and Tor the
endowment Of said institution, and there
shall be located DIT 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 Nortl, Dakota be amended,
by adding thereto and making part there
OF, the following clause:
1.-THE Legislative assembly may further
provide that grain grown within the state
andEheld therein in elevators. warehouses
and granaries may be taxed at fixed
rate.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
Subdivision five, Section two hundred
and fifteen (215), Of Article nineteen (19)
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 Northa Dakota, at the city of
Devils Lake, in the county OF Ramsey.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
1. Section 1853 of the Constitution
of the State Of North Dakota is amended
to read as follows:
8 158. 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-6fth Of the price
in cash, and the remaining four-fifths
at the option Of the purchaser. in not
more thanAtwenty 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 shalt be at
public auctionss and to the highest
bidder, after sixty days advertisement
OF the same, in newspaper of general
in the vicinity of the lands
to be sold, and one at the seat of GOV.
eminent. Such lands as shall not hav.
been specifically subdivided shall b,
offered in tractsEof one.quarter section
and thoseeso subdivided in the smallest
All lands designated
for sale and notEsold' withen two years
after appraisal, shall be reappra,sed
before they are sold. No grant or
patent for anyl such! lands shall issue
until payment istsmade for the same;
that the lands contracted to
be sold by the state shall be subject to
/ x,.tion from the date of such con- {
tract. In case the taxes assessed
against any;of said lands for any year
unpaid until the first Monday
in October ofthe following year, then
and thereupon the contract of sale for /
such lands shall become null and void;
further, thatlSections, l8 and
%. or any indemnity Glands selected in
lieu Of losses thereof, pproplfated for
The common schools Of the state shall
notbesold for less Than go per acre. |:
NJ e F. PORTER,
Secretary Of State. /