Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-17

1 hereby certify that the following pro,osed
constitutional amendments were passed by the
last legislative assembly, and will be submit
ted to the coming legislature of 1907 for their
approval or re lection.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
MENT.
That section 1853 of the constitution of North
Dakota is amended to read as follows:
l5S. AMENDMENT. MINIMUM PRICE OF STATE
| LANDs.l No land shall be sold for less than the
| appraised value and in case for less than
ten dollars per acre The purchaser shall pay
oue-hfth OF the price in cash. and the remain
ing four-ffths as follows: One-ffth in five
years, one-ffth in ten years, one-ffth in fifteen
years and one NTH in twenty years, with inter-
est at the rate of not less than six per ceutum
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 auct ion 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 the seat
of government Such lands as shall not have
been specially subdivided shall be offered in
tracts OF oue-quarter section, and those so sub
divided in the smallest subdivisions. All lands
designated for sale, and not sold within ,w,,
years after appraisal, shall be re-appraised be-
fore they are sold. No gran. 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 sub
Ject to taxation from the date of such contract
In case the taxes assessed against any of said
lands for any year remain unpaid until the
first Monday in October of the following wear
then and 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 such contract heretofore made
shall be held void for non-payment of taxes
accruing on the lands described therein: pro-
vided. such taxes shall have been paid before
this amendment takes effect; provided, furth-
er, that, any school or institution lands that
may be required for townsite purposes may be
paid for at any time and patent issued therefor
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
MENT.
That section SO of the constitution of the state
of North Dakota be amended SO as to read as
followss
49,. The supreme court shall consist of five
Judges, majority of whom shall be necessary
to form quorum or pronounce decision, but
one or more of said Judges may adjourn the
court from day to day or to a day certain.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND.
..... MENT. .
That section 1852 of the constitution of the
state of North Dakota be amended SO as to read
as follows. ~. -. 'Ef7'-- j.
8 1852 The moneys of the permanent schno,
fund and other educational funds shall be iu-
vested only In bonds of school corporations
or of counties, OF OF sownships or Of Tnurici.
palities within the state bonds issued for the
construction of drains under authority Of law
within the state, bonds of the United States
bonds OF the state of North Dakota, bonds of
other states, provided such states have never
rcpudiated any Of their Indebtedness or on
hrst mortgages on farm lands In this state not
exceeding in amount one.shird of the actual
vafne of any subdivision on which the same
may be loaned, such value to be determined by
the board of appraisal of school lands. IL
q. +. PORTER,
BIsMARcK, Ang. ., 1905. 4.
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