Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-08-13
Constitutional Amendments

I hereby certify that the following proposed
constitutional amendments were passed by the
last Legislative assembly, and will be submit
ted to the coming legislature of 1907 for their
approval or rejection. $40 ST.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
j. 2s@.@ MENT.1 s. IS
That section l5s of the constitution of North
Dakota is amended to read as follows: %fss y
N s 1888. 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. T he purchaser shall pay
one-6fth of the price in cash, and the remains
ears, one-Hfth in ten years, one-ifth in fifteen
years and one fifth in twenty years, with inter.
est at the rate of not less than six per centuru
payable annually In advance. Ali sales shall
be held at the county seat of the county in which
the land to be sold is situate. and shall be at
public auction and to the highest bidder, after
sixty days advertisement of the same In a
newspaper of general circulation In the vicinity
of the LANDS to be sold, and one at tile seat
of government. Such lands as shall not have
been specially subdiyided shall be offered in
tracts of one-quarter section, and those SO stil-
divided in the smallest subdivisions. I1lai1ds
designated for sale, and not sold within two
years after appraisal, shall be re-appraised be-
lore they are sold. Migrant or patent for any
such lands shall issue until pay rneut is
made for the same; provided, that the lands
contracted to be sold BY the state shall be sub
ject to taxation from the date of snch cont ract
| In case the taxes assessed against anysof said
lands for any year remain unpaid until the
first Monday in October of the following year,
then aud thereupon the contract of sale for
such lands shall, at the election Of the board
| of university and school lands, become null
and void; and no srch contract heretofore made
shall be held void for non-pay niert of Ia xes
accrning on the lands described therein 1,ro.
yided, such taxes shall have been paid before
this amendment take3S effect; provided, furtl1.
er. that any school 81 institution lands tina,
may be required Tor townsite purposes may be
paid for at any time and patent issued therefor
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL MEND
s III u ia N ENT. 8 IA ]T55
That section SO If the constitution 81 The state
OF North Dakota be amended so as to read IL
follows:
| 8 SO. The supreme court shall consist of I've
/ Judges, a ma ority of whom shall be necessary
to form quorum or pronounce decision, but
4 court from day to day or to a day certain.
i PROPOSED coNSTITUTIoNALA AMEND
. Nd EMIT ~ VIVA
state Of North Dakota be amended SO as TO READ
i as follows: @ E45s8 fsa III
4 q 1862 The moneys OF the De I'm he 1T scf1oo
4 fund and other educational funds shall be ia
4 vested only in bonds of school corporations
4 or of counties, OF OF townships, or of munich
Il construction OF drains under authority Of Law
q within the state, bonds of the United States
a bonds of the state Of North Dakota bonds 81
Il other states, provided such states have neye
repudiated any Of their indebtedness, or OF
hrst mortgages on farm lands In this state. no
4 yalne of any subdivision on which the sam
Il may be loaned, such value to be determined b,
4 the board Of appraisal of school lands.
Eff. PORTER,
BIsMARcg, Aug. &. 1905. s55s