The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-11-02
Constitutional Amendments

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proposed constitutional amendments
were passed by the last legislative as
sembly, and will be submitted to the
coming legislature Of 1907 for their ap-
proval or rejection.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
That section 1853 of the constitution of
North Dakota is amended to read as
follows:
s 15S. AMENDMENT, MINIMUM PRICE
OF STATE LANDs.] No land shall be
sold for less than the appraised value
and in no case for less than ten dollars
per acre. The purchaser shall pay one
fifth of the price in cash, and the re-
naming four-fifths as follows: One-fifth
in live years, one-fifth in ten years, one
fifth in fifteen years and one-fifth in
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 ad-
vertisement of the same in a newspaper
of general circulation in the vicinity of
the lands to be sold, and one at the seat
OF government. Such lands as shall not
have been specially subdivided shall be
offered in tracts of one quarter section,
and those so subdivided in the smallest
subdivisions. All lands designated for
sale, and not sold within two years after
appraisal, shall be re-appraised before
they are sold. No grant or patent for
any such lands shall issue until payment
is made for the same, provided, that the
lands contracted to be sold by the state
shall be subject to taxation from the
date of such contract. In case the tax
es assessed against any of said lands
for.any year remain unpaid until the
first Monday in October Of the following
year, then and thereupon the contract
of sale for such lands shall, at the cleo
ton of the board of university and
school lands, become null and void; and
no such contract heretofore made shall
be held for no-payment of taxes accru-
ing on the..lands described therein; pro-
vided, such taxes shall have been. paid
before this amendment takes effect: pro-
vided, furthur, that any school or insti-
tuition lands that may be, required for
townsite purposes may be paid for at
any time.and patent issued therefor.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
That section SO of the constitution of
the state of North Dakota be amended
so as to read as follows:
$50 The supreme court schall consist
of five judges, majority of whom shall
be necessary to form quorum or pro-
nounce decision, but one or more of
said judges may adjourn the court from
day to day or to a day certain. .
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
That section 1872 of the constitution of
the state of North Dakota be amended
SO as to read as follows:
1852. The moneys of the permanent
school fund and other educational fund
and shall be invested only in bonds of
school corporations, or of counties or
townships, or of municipalities within
the state, bonds issued for the construc-
ton Of drains under authority of law
within the state, bonds of the United
States, bonds of the state of North Da-
kota, bonds of other states, provided
such states have never repudiated any
Of their Indebtedness. or on first mortga-
ges on farm lands in this state, not ex-
ceeding one-third Of the actual value of
any subdivision on which the same may
be loaned, such value to be determined
by the board Of appraisal Of sos ,ol
lands. e. Il I'ORTER
Secretary Stata